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Mara Hofacker,

Isra Vision with a new management team

Isra Vision was founded more than three decades ago as a spin-off from TU Darmstadt and has since developed into a globally active machine vision technology company.

At the end of June 2021, the founder and CEO of Isra Vision, Enis Ersü, will retire from operational life. As part of his succession planning, Isra has entered into a strategic partnership with the Swedish industrial group Atlas Copco, forming the core of the new Machine Vision Solutions division. With a new management team, the course is now being set for further business development.

The new management team of Isra Vision (from right:), Hans Jürgen Christ, Tomas Lundin (spokesman), Dr. Johannes Giet, takes over from the departing CEO and founder Enis Ersü (left). © ISRA VISION

The new three-member management team consists of the two well-known Isra-Vision board members Hans Jürgen Christ and Dr. Johannes Giet and the new spokesman of the Isra-Vision board Tomas Lundin. Tomas Lundin worked for the Atlas Copco Group for over 20 years in various management positions. Thanks to his many years of market and management experience, he is ideally qualified for the future growth tasks at Isra Vision. Over the past four years, he has gained experience in the Asian market as General Manager Industrial Technique in China. He has been working at Isra's headquarters in Darmstadt since August 2020 and is a member of the Management Board. Tomas Lundin will lead the new Machine Vision Solutions division from the headquarters in Darmstadt.

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Hans Jürgen Christ has been with Isra Vision for 25 years. Even in the early years, he took on the important task of sales management and, as CSO, is one of the managers who have made a significant contribution to Isra Vision's growth. Dr. Johannes Giet joined Isra in 2001 via the acquisition of Rheinmetall Machine Vision, where he himself was the transaction manager. He subsequently took over the management of Isra Vision's global development. With an extraordinarily forward-looking innovation course combined with important strategic and operational impulses, he has played a decisive role in Isra's success.

Isra Vision and its subsidiaries are global leaders in the surface inspection of web materials and one of the market leaders in 3D machine vision. Isra Vision is also one of the most important providers of industrial image processing (machine vision). Machine vision is a key technology of vision systems that imitates the human eye. Isra's current applications focus primarily on automating the production and quality assurance of goods and products supplied to large, promising markets such as energy, healthcare, food, mobility and transportation. Its customers are mainly well-known global players in the respective industries. With more than 25 locations worldwide, Isra is close to its customers everywhere and ensures optimum service and support.

With Atlas Copco, Isra can draw on a large, global network of expertise with the aim of continuing its success story. As a separate "Machine Vision Solutions" division in Atlas Copco's Industrial Technique business area, Isra will continue to operate from its headquarters in Darmstadt. To this end, the company is building a new company headquarters in the north of Darmstadt. The move is scheduled for the end of 2022.

For the new division, Atlas Copco is also bringing in Quiss GmbH, the previously acquired specialist for image processing and visual quality control, and Perceptron, the US company specializing in automated measurement technology. The product portfolios complement each other perfectly and global customers will have a technologically leading and reliable partner for the customized development of innovative machine vision applications. The aim is to continue to grow continuously in the future with the two business units Smart Factory Automation and Surface Inspection.

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