David L. Dechow

David L. Dechow is an engineer, programmer, and technologist widely recognized as an expert and thought leader in integration of machine vision and related automation technologies. He has had a decades-long career serving the automated imaging industry, founding two integration companies and working for others like Motion Ai, Fanuc America and Landing AI and is Principal Vision Systems engineer for the Arthur G. Russell Company.

Dechow is a recipient of the A3 Automated Imaging Achievement Award recognizing career contributions to the vision industry, is a member of the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) Imaging Technology Strategy Board and is contributing editor for Vision Systems Design magazine.

As a key educator in the field of machine vision technologies, Dechow has participated in the training of hundreds of engineers as an instructor with the A3 Certified Vision Professional program since its origin. He also is well known for his frequent informative technical articles, papers, webinars, and conference sessions and classes covering a wide range of technical topics involving machine vision and associated enabling technologies in industrial automation.