Automated Imaging Association announces officers, award winner

Feb. 8, 2005
FEBRUARY 8--The Automated Imaging Association (AIA; Ann Arbor, MI; www.machinevisiononline.org) has announced that John Merva, president of Tattile USA, has been elected 2005--2006 president.

FEBRUARY 8--The Automated Imaging Association (AIA; Ann Arbor, MI; www.machinevisiononline.org), the world's largest machine-vision trade group, representing more than 230 member companies from 25 nations, has announced that John Merva, president of Tattile USA, has been elected 2005--2006 president. He succeeds John Stack, president/COO of Edmund Industrial Optics, who served a two-year term as president and remains on the board.

"I am excited to have the opportunity to lead the AIA at this time," Merva said. "Technology advances are increasing the machine-vision application and market space, while global shifts in manufacturing are impacting how and where member companies do business. The challenge for the AIA will be to help member companies capitalize on these underlying changes, helping them to become stronger in the process," he explained.

Newly elected to two-year terms on the AIA board are Terry Guy, product marketing manager, Eastman Kodak Company; Marc Marini, director, National Instruments; Jim O'Hanley, president, CCS America; and Keith Reuben, president & CEO, Coreco Imaging. Returning board members elected to new two-year terms are Joseph Christenson, president & CEO, PPT Vision; David Dechow, president, Aptúra Machine Vision Solutions; Brian Doody, president, DALSA Corporation; Toshi Hori, CEO, JAI Group; Dietmar Ley, CEO, Basler Vision AG; Amir Novini, president/CEO, Applied Vision Company; Sean Phillips, general manager--vision products, Electro Scientific Industries; Bob Settle, director of marketing, DVT Corporation; and Vic Wintriss, president, Wintriss Engineering Corporation. Donald Vincent, executive vice president, Automation Technologies Council, remains on the board as an ex officio member.

The AIA has also announced that Dr.-Ing. Norbert Stein, president of VITRONIC, is the recipient of the 2005 Automated Imaging Achievement Award. The award, presented to Stein by the AIA on February 3 at the annual AIA Business Conference in Orlando, FL, honors industry leaders for outstanding contributions in promoting market acceptance of industrial and/or scientific imaging. Stein is the founder of VITRONIC, a high-performance industrial machine-vision company headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, with US headquarters in Louisville, KY.

"I am delighted that Norbert Stein is our first German recipient of the Achievement Award," said Jeffrey A. Burnstein, executive director of the AIA. "Since founding VITRONIC 20 years ago, he has built a tremendous track record of success and innovation."

Some other recent recipients include Savvas Chamberlain of DALSA; Perry West of Automated Vision Systems; Amir Novini of Applied Vision Company; Nello Zuech of Vision Systems International; Robert Shillman of Cognex; Ken Levy of KLA-Tencor; and Pat Costa of RVSI.

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