The IEEEIndustrial Electronics Society is one of the 39 Society of the IEEE. It is one of the oldest societies within IEEE with its roots going back to the early 1950s. The focuses of this Society are on the theory and application of electronics, controls, communications, instrumentation, and computational intelligence to industrial and manufacturing systems and processes. The society oversees the publication of three scientific periodicals that are consistently listed in the top 500 journals worldwide annually ranked according to their impact factor.
History
February 21, 1951 - First meeting of the IRE Industrial Electronics Group
May 8, 1951 - Name change to IRE Professional Group on Industrial Electronics
August 1953 - Published the first volume of the Transactions on Professional Group on Industrial Electronics
August 21, 1963 - IRE merged with AIEE and become IEEE. The PG-IE approved the merger of IRE's PG-IE and AIEE's group on control instrumentation
August 22, 1963 - The merger of the PG-IE and the GCI into Professional Group on Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation was approved by the IEEE Executive Committee
October 14, 1964 - Name change to Group on Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation
1975 - First IECON was held in Philadelphia. Until then there had been only a sponsored session at the Industry Applications Society Conference
March 20, 1978 - Name change to Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation Society
June 1982 - Name change to Industrial Electronics Society
industrial information technology in the late 1990s
factory communications and automation in the 2000s
Publications
Main article: List of IEEE publications Industrial Electronics Society oversees the publication of twelve periodicals, including nine scholarly journals, one magazine, and two e-newsletters.. Industrial Electronics Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics are consistently listed in the top 500 list of journals ranked according to their impact factor.
Journals
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IF=7.5
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IF=7.3
IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics
IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society
There are also other journals.
Magazines
IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, IF=13.2
eNews
IE Technology Transfer News
IE Technology News
Major Conferences
The Society organizes several major international conferences every year such as:
Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society – IECON
IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics – ISIE
IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology – ICIT
