Marcel Heugen, an expert in machine vision and industrial automation engineering, will now serve as a senior consultant for PPT Vision's European headquarters. In this role, he will support the company's European Operations, headquartered in the Netherlands, under the direction of European sales manager Ivar Keulers. Heugen held leadership roles in machine vision engineering at Simac Masic & TSS bv, SAC GmbH (Sirius Advanced Cybernetics) before launching his own business, SAC Nederland, Vision Competence Center, in 2005. In his new assignment, as founder of Vision Consultancy, he will support an expanding network of certified integrators, distributors and business partners throughout Europe.