!%IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH%! of Obersulm, Germany, an industrial camera manufacturer, has expanded its international presence with the opening of a sales office in Paris. The office will be headed by Mithridate Mahmoudi, who will use his machine vision market experience to support the company’s distributors and customers in all French-speaking countries. Before joining the company, Mahmoudi served as president of Imasys GmbH. IDS also has subsidiaries in the US and Japan, as well as distributors in nearly every country in Europe and Asia.