This conference is the flagship event of the IEEE IES Technical Committee on Factory Automation (TCFA) and a premier event sponsored by the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. It aims at bringing together the international community to present the latest research results, share new ideas and engineering breakthroughs, and discuss state-of-the-art challenges and future directions in technology and innovation in the broad domain of Automation with a focus on Industrial and Factory Automation.

IEEE 31st International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA) is technically sponsored by IEEE. The proceedings  of this event are likely to be indexed in  prominent databases such as Scopus, Web of Science (WoS), Ei Compendex, DBLP, Google Scholar, and many others.