On 1 October 2009 the EMVA Executive Committee elected the new EMVA Vice President, Cor Maas (LMI Technologies), for a term of three years. Cor Maas has been a member of the Executive Committee since May 2008 and is in charge of EMVA standardization activities. He is co-founder of LMI Technologies, Inc. and serves as President of LMI's Vision Components Division headquartered in The Netherlands.

As the EMVA Vice President his focus will be on the harmonization of global machine vision standardization activities and the further development of current EMVA standardization initiatives such as the GenICam and EMVA 1288 standards.

"Harmonization of global machine vision standardization emphasizes the economic importance of machine vision as a key technology. It will also increase the benefit for all our members", Maas said.