Alexander Schönberg, born in 1982, studied mechanical engineering in the field of production technology at the RWTH Aachen University starting in 2003. He worked at the Laboratory of Machine Tools and Production Engineering WZL of RWTH Aachen University first as a supporting scientist with a focus on Machine-Vision since 2005. Starting in 2008 he has been working as a research employee in the field of Large-Volume Metrology -assisted Assembly establishing so called global referencing systems. Since 2013 he has been responsible for integrating optical sensing in automated production systems as developer sensor technology in the imaging team of FFT