Message from the General Co-Chairs

The series of IEEE Workshops on Factory Communication Systems has become established as a widely known and respected forum for researchers and practitioners from industry and academia involved in the wide area of communication in automation. This year´s issue, WFCS 2010, is co-sponsored by the IEEE Industrial Electronic Society, the research center INRIA Nancy - Grand-Est and the Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA UMR 7503). Additional support comes from Nancy University, the CNRS (GDR MACS), the local government institutions (Région Lorraine), and the French department for Research and Education as well as sponsors from industry for the Industry Day.