Welcome to ICMM 2018 The 2018 9th International Conference on Mechatronics and Manufacturing (ICMM 2018) will be held in Phuket, Thailand during Jan 27-29, 2018. This conference will provide a remarkable opportunity for the academic and industrial communities to address new challenges and share solutions, and discuss future research directions. Contributions are expected from academia, industry, and management agencies. Publication all the accepted papers will be published into IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering (doi:10.1088 / ISSN.1757-899X), which is indexed by EI Compendex, Scopus, Thomson Reuters (WoS), Inspec,et al.