The 8th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2013) will be held during 19-21 June 2013, in Melbourne, Australia. The Conference is organized by IEEE Industrial Electronics (IE) Chapter of Singapore Section and Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. IEEE Industrial Electronics Society is the financial and technical sponsor. The Proceedings of past ICIEA are included in the IEEE Xplore database and indexed by EI Compendex and ISI Proceedings. (except ICIEA 2012 which is in process.)