John Lewis began his role as Editor in Chief of Laser Focus World in August 2018, after having served as the Editor in Chief of Vision Systems Design for the previous two years. He has technical, industry, and journalistic qualifications, with more than 13 years of progressive content development experience working at Cognex Corporation. Prior to Cognex where his articles on machine vision were published in dozens of trade journals, he was a technical editor for Design News, covering automation, machine vision, and other engineering topics, for over six years.