INDUSCON 2016 is the 12th IEEE/IAS International Conference on Industry Applications. The conference is sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), by the Brazil South Section of IEEE and by the South Section of the Industry Applications Society (IAS). Since the first edition of the INDUSCON, in 1994, the conference is well known as an important forum where academic scientific research and technological advances meet the industry.

INDUSCON is a biannual event that covers themes related to Industry Applications, Power Systems, Electrical Machines and Drives, Power Electronics, Automation and Process Control, Robotics and Mechatronics, Industrial Lightning, Power Quality, Smart Grids, Electrical Vehicle and Energy Storage and Renewable Energy and others. The conference also have the participation of internationally renowned speakers from both the academy and industry. As a result, INDUSCON is one of the most important and renowned conferences in industry applications.

The conference will provide different tutorials, lectures and technical sections where the speakers can present and discuss their research results and innovations with their academic, scientific and industrial fellows. Keeping the tradition of the event, the papers submitted in English will be sent for publication in the IEEE Xplore platform for international publicity.

This edition of the INDUSCON will be held at the Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR), in the enjoyable city of Curitiba-PR. The organization of the conference is shared among the four Post Graduation Programs in Electrical Engineering of the UTFPR located in four different university campus: Pato Branco, Cornélio Procópio, Ponta Grossa and Curitiba.

To encourage the interaction with the academic, scientific and industrial community, the organizing committee are proud to invite all the interested in the INDUSCON to submit their work to this event. The conference committee is working hard on making the participation of all the attendants of the conference and their visit to Curitiba unforgettable and a pleasant experience.