Aim The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from industry and academia involved in the area of factory communication systems. Focus Real-time issues in factory communications: message scheduling, distributed application support; Dependability issues in factory communications: safety, security, availability and reliability; Formal description techniques for the verification, validation and test of factory communication systems; The integration of the emerging information technologies with the factory communication systems; Communication aspects in factory  system design and architecture. Workshop topics: Real-time communication and applications Fieldbus networks Dependable communication and applications Cell networks Communications and applications modeling High speed networks Multimedia communication support Building automation networks Distributed application platforms (CORBA, Java/Jini, etc.) Wireless networks Internetworking, interoperability Embedded networks Configuration tools and network management Intranet and internet access Component based design of factory systems Software and System Architectures for factory systems Factory applications and case studies