”In the EMVA Board I would like to focus on topics which are related to industrial applications and their resulting demands for future machine vision systems. With this focus I want to motivate more system integrators to be part of our community. I also will try to link discussions from end users into our community. Beside this it is important for me to align activities of the different associations on an European Level.”
Short CV
Dr. Kai-Udo Modrich is Head of ZEISS Inline Inspection & Metrology and Managing Director of Carl Zeiss Automated Inspection GmbH. The company is solution provider for inline measuring technology, robot vision and vision-based quality inspection systems in the automotive and manufacturing industries.
Kai-Udo Modrich was born on 9 November 1969 in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany. He studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Stuttgart. In 2002 he received his PhD at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the same university. From 1997 until 2007 he worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (Fraunhofer IPA) in different positions at last as Head of the Department Information Processing. Since 2008 he has been working at Carl Zeiss AG. At the start of his career, he led in the ZEISS Business Group Industrial Metrology (IMT) the department of Product Management and afterwards he headed the software development. Parallel to his position as Senior Director for software development, he was the Managing Director at the Carl Zeiss Innovation Center in Dresden as well as at the subsidiary Holometric Technologies GmbH in Essingen.
Since December 2012 he is the Managing Director of Carl Zeiss Automated Inspection GmbH in Neuenstein, Germany. From October 2016 he was heading in parallel the Field of Business Car Body Solutions. Since January 2021 he is heading the new Field of Business Inline Inspection & Metrology within Zeiss Industrial Quality Solutions.
Kai-Udo Modrich has been working in different voluntary committees in the area of machine vision and metrology e.g. for the Vision Show, Messe Stuttgart, AMA scientific committee and others. From 2002 until 2013 he has been working as chairman for x-ray based computed tomography for metrology applications in the VDI/VDE GMA 3.33. Since 2008 he has been working in the industrial advisory board of Fraunhofer Alliance Vision. He serves the board of trustees at Fraunhofer IPA and is member of VDMA Robotik & Automation and A3.
Kai-Udo was elected into the EMVA Board of Directors by the General Assembly 2015 in Athens, Greece.
In 2024 he has been reelected into the EMVA Board and takes responsibility as its Vice President.
