Dr.-Ing. Norbert Stein Receives Automated Imaging Association Achievement Award

Ann Arbor, Michigan - February 3, 2005 -- Dr.-Ing. Norbert Stein, President of VITRONIC, is the recipient of the 2005 Automated Imaging Achievement Award. The award, which was presented to Stein by the Automated Imaging Association (AIA) on February 3 at the annual AIA Business Conference in Orlando, Florida, honors industry leaders for outstanding contributions in promoting market acceptance of industrial and/or scientific imaging.

‘‘I am delighted that Dr. Norbert Stein is our first German recipient of the Achievement Award,’‘ said Jeffrey A. Burnstein, Executive Director of AIA.  ‘‘Since founding VITRONIC twenty years ago, he has built a tremendous track record of success and innovation.’‘

Dr. Stein is the founder of VITRONIC, a high-performance industrial machine vision company headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany with US headquarters located in Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. Stein received his PhD from Technical University Darmstadt and is Vice President of the VDMA Robot and Automation Association.

He joins an impressive list of past winners, some of the recent recipients include: Dr. Savvas Chamberlain of DALSA; Perry West of Automated Vision Systems, Inc.; Amir Novini of Applied Vision Company, Nello Zuech of Vision Systems International; Dr. Robert Shillman of Cognex, Ken Levy of KLA-Tencor and Pat Costa of RVSI, Inc.

Founded in 1984, AIA is the world’s largest machine vision trade group, representing over 230 member companies from 25 nations.  Members include leading suppliers of complete vision systems, vision components, system integrators, end users, OEMs, consulting firms, and research groups. 

The AIA’s Annual Business Conference attracts more than 175 industry leaders and covers key topics such as market conditions and forecasts, future market opportunities and other developments that affect the industry.  The 2006 AIA Business Conference is set for February 1-3 in Orlando, Florida.  Nominations for the 2006 Achievement Award are now being accepted; a nomination form can be found at www.machinevisiononline.org.  For more information on AIA, visit www.machinevisiononline.org or contact AIA Headquarters at (734) 994-6088.