Lumenera  announces today that they have appointed a Sales Engineer and Sales Director, based in Germany, to better serve the growing machine vision market in Europe.

As a global leader with cameras on all continents, the new Sales positions demonstrate Lumenera's strong commitment to supporting and better understanding the needs of their customers and partners in the European market. "Having a Sales Engineer and Sales Director based in Germany, allows us to serve our customers in both the English and German language, and to gain deeper insight into local market needs in order to deliver superior pre- and post- sales support and services to our customers," said Dany Longval, Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Lumenera Corporation.

To drive the company's European efforts, Lumenera has appointed Frank Steinborn as a Director of Sales, and Matthias Werner as a Sales Engineer. Both Frank and Matthias have experience in the machine vision industry and a wide range of industry contacts. There is an active machine vision market in Germany, and bringing them on board is a significant step toward increasing Lumenera's penetration in the region and also allows the company to give additional support to existing customers.

Frank Steinborn, Lumenera's Director of Sales based in Munich, will help Lumenera to grow their OEM business within Europe. The machine vision camera market is a growing segment, using advanced vision technology to implement factory automation, transportation, biometrics, robotics, unmanned vehicles, military and other advanced applications. With more than 12 years' sales experience in the industrial camera market, Frank brings excellent know-how in many different applications, profound technical knowledge and comprehensive market experience in Europe. Frank has a Master's degree in Business Administration and Engineering.

Matthias Werner, Lumenera's Sales Engineer based in Bargteheide (close to Hamburg in North Germany), joins the company with over 9 years' experience in both camera and sensor technical sales and applications. Matthias is a state Certified Engineer and Master Professional of Technical Management (CCI). He will be responsible for supporting the Sales team in the pre- and post- sales cycle and will act as the technical lead for new and existing customers looking for imaging solutions for new projects. Matthias will work closely with the OEM Sales team to support new and existing customers by supporting the team as a trusted technical advisor delivering innovative and creative imaging solution designs.

"Adding these positions allows us to further support our local partners and increase communication with the German market place," said Dany Longval, Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Lumenera Corporation. "We look forward to closely interacting with the market and expanding our presence through a variety of initiatives such as our continued membership with the EMVA, attending trade shows like Vision Stuttgart and delivering some of the most advanced imaging solutions on the market."

Lumenera has been a long time member of the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA), which helps ensure that the cutting edge technology of machine vision is known and applied worldwide. The EMVA currently has 126 members, represents 23 countries from all over Europe and worldwide and continues to grow.