2011, the Korean Society for Precision Engineering (KSPE) headed by the President Seung-Woo Kim from KAIST, launched a new division of KSPE called Green Manufacturing Technology for the development of green manufacturing related technologies. Professor Sung-Hoon Ahn from Seoul National University (SNU) was appointed as the founding president of this new division and has held this position from 2011 to 2014.

As the first international activity of the division, Professor Ahn with a group of Professors from SNU and Green Manufacturing Technology division launched the International Symposium on Green Manufacturing and Applications (ISGMA) in 2011, and the first symposium was held at SNU. Professor Chong-Nam Chu (SNU) chaired the symposium, and Professor Jongwon Kim (SNU, President of IAMD), Professor Sung-Hoon Ahn (SNU, President of KSPE Green Manufacturing Division), Fritz Prinz (Stanford University), David Dornfeld (UC Berkeley), and Ichiro Inasaki (Chubu University, Japan, President of MIRAI) were appointed as Co-chairs.

The following ISGMA symposiums were held in Jeju Island, Korea (2012), Hawaii, USA (2013), Busan, Korea (2014), Qingdao, China (2015), Bali, donesia (2016), and Gyeongju, Korea(2017). The largest number of participants at the symposium was recorded at Hawaii in 2013 with over 600 participants from 20 countries.

In 2018, ISGMA was renamed to PRESM (International Symposium on Precision Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing) to expand the scope of the symposium to cover a wider range of topics related to green manufacturing, including precision engineering. PRESM 2018 was held in Sapporo, Japan with 515 participants, and PRESM 2019 was held in Da Nang, Vietnam with 598 participants from all over the world.

PRESM 2020 was held by virtual. The initial plan of PRESM 2020 was to hold in Seoul, Korea in July. But the unprecedented pandemic of COVID-19, we had to inevitably execute PRESM 2020 virtually in November. Despite such a drastic shift in plans, more than 320 researchers, academicians, engineers and students met together at online.

PRESM 2021 was renovated into 'Single session' format with Plenary and Focus sessions on site to make the conference more focused and fruitful. On the other hand, the Regular Sessions and the Special Sessions will be provided online as we noticed earlier. It will allow you to have more flexibility and convenience in accessing to Regular and Special sessions without temporal or spatial limits. The communication can be achieved through [comments and replies] at conference web site.

For the PRESM 2022, we change the full title of PRESM partly. The full title of PRESM is reformed into International CONFERENCE on Precision Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing. The organizing committee of PRESM 2022 wil do its best to make the utmost of academic conference worthy of its change.

Based on the growing activity of ISGMA & PRESM and green manufacturing technology, KSPE launched a new journal entitled 'International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing - Green Technology' (IJPEM-GT) in January 2014. From its very first issue, IJPEM-GT was indexed and now it is one of the leading journals in this field. The impact factor of IJPEM-GT is announced 5.671(2020) and ranked within the top 10 in the mechanical engineering field.

ISGMA 2011	October6(Thu)~7(Fri), 2011 Seoul National University (Hoam Convention Center), Soul, Korea	Call for Paper Technical Program
ISGMA 2012	August 27(Mon)~29(Wed), 2012 Ramada Plaza Jeju Hotel, Jeju Island, Korea	Call for Paper Technical Program
ISGMA 2013	June 25(Tue)~29(Sat), 2013 Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu, Ohau, Hawaii, USA	Call for Paper Technical Program
ISGMA 2014	June 24(Tue)~28(Sat), 2014 Paradise Hotel, Busan, Korea	Call for Paper Technical Program Proceedings      ISSN 2383-4684
ISGMA 2015	June 23(Tue)~27(Sat), 2015 Shangri-La Hotel, Qingdao, China	Call for Paper Technical Program Proceedings      ISSN 2383-4684
ISGMA 2016	June21(Tue)~25(Sat), 2016 Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center, Bali, Indonesia	Call for Paper Technical Program Proceedings      ISSN 2383-4684
ISGMA 2017	June 27(Tue)~July 1(Sat), 2017 Hwabaek International Convention Center (HICO), Gyeongju, Korea	Call for Paper Technical Program Proceedings      ISSN 2383-4684
PRESM 2018	July 3(Tue)~July 7(Sat), 2018 Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, Japan	Call for Paper Technical Program Proceedings      ISSN 2635-7887
PRESM 2019	July 10(Wed)~July 13(Sat), 2019 The Nalod Da Nang Hotel, Da Nang, Vietnam	Call for Paper Technical Program Proceedings      ISSN 2635-7887
PRESM 2020	November 15(Sun)-November 18(Wed) , 2020 Online Symposium	Call for Paper Online Program Proceedings      ISSN 2635-7887
PRESM 2021	July 21(Wed)~July 23(Fri), 2021 Ramada Plaza Jeju Hotel, Jeju, Korea & Virtual	Call for Paper Online Program Proceedings      ISSN 2635-7887