NFEA (Norwegian Society of Electric and Automatic Control) was established on 1st January 2018, as a merging of former Ifea (Industriens forening for elektro og automatisering) and former NFA (Norsk Forening for Automatisering).

Administration
The NFEA office has four employees, and is situated in Kristiansand in the South of Norway.

Board
The NFEA board consists of businessmen and -women who play an important role in defining the organisation’s strategy. Students are also represented in the NFEA board, with one member.

Mission and Strategy
NFEA Slogan:
Passionately concerned about the competence of the future
– through learning, sharing and networking.

NFEA’s values:
Provident – we understand the technology, and are at the forefront of development
Engaging – our activities engages through being inspiring and relevant
Generosity – we share competence and experience

Expert Panel
NFEA has a total of 13 experts connected. These experts are either experts within their industry, or within a specific technology area. For the next years we have experts within industries like oil&gas, infrastucture and medicin, and within tecnologies like digital transformation, robotics, cyber security and electical safety. See the norwegian presentation for a total overview.

Cooperation
NFEA will cooperate with relevant actors to be able to offer an interesting and relevant portfolio of activities (courses, seminars, conferences). Both national and international partners are being evaluated consecutively.
IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control)
NFEA is IFAC NMO (National Member Organisation). This means that NFEA represents Norway in IFAC and vice versa. IFAC webpage is found here.
IFAC arranges a lot of global activites within Automatic control. They also have a number of gobal, technical committees where Norway also have representatives.