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Isra Vision enters the future with a new management team
Monday 19. July 2021 - As part of his succession planning, ISRA has entered into a strategic partnership with Atlas Copco, forming the core of the new Machine Vision Solutions division. With a new, powerful management team, the course is now being set for further successful business development.
More than three decades ago, ISRA VISION was founded as a spin-off from the Technical University of Darmstadt and subsequently developed into a leading global machine vision technology company. At the end of June 2021, the founder and CEO of ISRA VISION, Enis Ersü, will retire from his operational professional life.
The new three-member management team consists of the two well-known ISRA VISION Executive Board members Hans Jürgen Christ and Dr. Johannes Giet and the new spokesman of the ISRA VISION Executive Board Tomas Lundin. Tomas Lundin worked for the Atlas Copco Group for over 20 years in various management positions. With his many years of market and management experience, he brings with him the best prerequisites for the future growth tasks at ISRA VISION. In the last four years, he has gained experience in the Asian market as General Manager Industrial Technique in China. He has already been on site at ISRA’s headquarters in Darmstadt since August 2020 and is active as a member of the Management Board. Tomas Lundin will manage the new Machine Vision Solutions division from the headquarters in Darmstadt. Hans Jürgen Christ has been with ISRA VISION for 25 years. Already in the early years, he took over the important task of sales management and, as CSO, is one of the managers who have significantly contributed to the growth of ISRA VISION. Dr. Johannes Giet came to ISRA in 2001 through the acquisition of Rheinmetall Machine Vision, where he himself was the transaction manager. He subsequently took over the management of the development of ISRA VISION worldwide. With an extraordinarily forward-looking innovation course combined with important strategic and operational impulses, he has played a decisive role in the success of ISRA.
ISRA VISION and its subsidiaries are global leaders in the surface inspection of web materials and one of the market leaders for 3D Machine Vision. ISRA VISION is also one of the most important suppliers of industrial image processing (Machine Vision). Machine Vision is a key technology of vision systems that imitates the human eye. Today’s ISRA applications focus primarily on automating the production and quality assurance of goods and products that are delivered to large, promising markets such as energy, healthcare, food, mobility and transportation. 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 optimal service and support.
With Atlas Copco, ISRA can fall back on a large, worldwide competence network with the goal of continuing the success story to date. As a separate “Machine Vision Solutions” division in Atlas Copco’s Industrial Technology business area, ISRA will continue to operate from its headquarters in Darmstadt. For this purpose, the company is building a new 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 specialising in automated measurement technology. The product portfolios complement each other perfectly and global customers will have a technologically leading and reliable partner for the customised development of innovative machine vision applications. The goal is to continue to grow in the future with the two business areas Smart Factory Automation and Surface Inspection and, as one of the world market leaders for machine vision, to provide global customers with the latest technologies with optimal ROI in the shortest possible time.