Message from the Program Co-Chairs and WiP/IP Co-Chairs

On behalf of the Technical Program Committee, welcome to the 21st IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA2016), held in Berlin from September 06 – 09, 2016. Since the beginning in 1992, the ETFA conference has been among the major international events dedicated to industrial automation and related emerging technologies. We believe that ETFA2016 continues the great success of past conference editions and remains an efficient platform for reporting recent research from both academia and industry. ETFA is traditionally a multi-track conference because of the broad scope of technical subjects and the nine tracks of ETFA2016 are covering research topics in Information Technology in Automation, Industrial Communication Systems, Real-Time and (Networked) Embedded Systems, Automated Manufacturing Systems, Industrial Control, Computational Intelligence and Modern Heuristics in Automation, Intelligent Robots & Systems, Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks, and Information Processing, as well as Information and Communication Technology in Energy Systems.