Invensys’ Wonderware Business Unit Announces Wonderware Strategic Integration Group New Applications and Solutions Group Provides Comprehensive Manufacturing Solutions and Consulting Services

LAKE FOREST, Calif., Oct. 22, 2003 -- Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys Systems, Inc., today announced the formation of the Wonderware Strategic Integration Group (WSIG). WSIG is a Wonderware solutions group that supports Wonderware strategic customer accounts and assists systems integrators and distributors in implementing advanced Wonderware products including those built on the Invensys ArchestrA software architecture.

WSIG applications and solutions deliver the maximum potential from several Wonderware products related to manufacturing execution and information, including InTrack, InBatch, IndustrialSQL Server and Industrial Application Server products. These solutions are central to the ongoing evolution of the Wonderware FactorySuite A² (“A-squared”) product family. The “A-squared” indicates the presence of ArchestrA technology.

“The goal of WSIG is to be an effective manufacturing solution partner by successfully linking customer enterprise and supply-chain systems with plant-floor processes,” said Yves Dufort, WSIG’s general manager and director of services. “We are offering end-user customers, systems integrators and distributors best-of-breed software components and services focused on providing the highest possible level of production-centric visualization, data collection, data storage and resource management. WSIG will help to ensure that a customer’s manufacturing and production objectives, system architecture and deployment strategies are aligned to optimize their overall investment and achieve their business goals.”

Comprehensive Manufacturing Solutions

WSIG provides a broad range of services to customers in a variety of industries including pharmaceutical, food and beverage, consumer goods, electronics, and automotive. To sustain and enhance customers’ manufacturing processes, WSIG is offering the following professional services:

FDA 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance. WSIG solutions enable pharmaceutical customers to achieve regulatory compliance more quickly and more cost effectively by leveraging the group’s expertise in IT systems development, control systems integration and validation technologies.
Project Management Services. WSIG can manage the entire project lifecycle including auditing, consulting, defining technology requirements, system design, engineering, implementation, testing, training maintenance and technical support.
Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Implementation. WSIG can assist in the implementation of an effective integrated MES system to provide data collection, production and inventory tracking, quality management, scheduling, and materials and resource management. In addition, WSIG can facilitate system linking for enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply-chain management, and sales and service management. The WSIG team is proficient in S88, S95, Microsoft(R) .NET and J2EE technologies and is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Provider.
Plant Intelligence Solutions. WSIG offers manufacturing customers decision support systems that drive operational excellence across the supply chain.
Strong Product Applications Expertise

As a Certified FactorySuite A² integrator, WSIG has significant systems architecture and product applications expertise with the following Wonderware FactorySuite A² products and can offer specialized supplemental assistance and/or one-stop service for technology, applications and solutions support:

Industrial Application Server is the first product built on Invensys’ ArchestrA architecture. It provides an infrastructure for simplifying the development, deployment, maintenance and administration of distributed automation applications. The Industrial Application Server can significantly reduce engineering time, reduce the cost of application ownership and maintenance, and provide scalability, flexibility and an extensible plant integration framework.
InTrack resource management and production tracking software tracks production from raw materials to finished goods inventory and acts as the gateway to ERP and legacy business enterprise systems.
IndustrialSQL Server plant historian serves as a real-time relational database and provides critical analysis and reporting of business and production data, both historically and in real time.
InBatch batch management software automates highly complex batch applications that require flexibility and a comprehensive history. It is designed to improve the production performance of any batch process. Two InBatch versions are available. Premier Edition is ideal for processes in which product recipes have different procedures, requiring a high level of flexibility. The FlexFormula Edition is designed for processes in which the only variations between product recipes are in the formula and execution sequences never change.
About Wonderware

Wonderware is a business unit of Invensys Systems, Inc., and is the world’s leading supplier of industrial automation software. Founded in 1987, Wonderware pioneered the use of the Microsoft® Windows® operating system in HMI automation software for manufacturing operation systems. Wonderware powers intelligent plant decisions in real time.

Based in Lake Forest, Calif., Wonderware has regional sales and development offices throughout North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia to provide support to its network of more than 160 distributor offices. Wonderware has approximately 300,000 software licenses in approximately 100,000 plants worldwide, which is about 30 percent of the world’s 335,000 plants with 20 or more employees.

About Invensys

Invensys is a global leader in production technology. The group helps customers improve productivity, performance and profitability using innovative services and technologies and a deep understanding of their industries and applications.

Invensys Production Management works closely with customers to increase performance of production assets, maximize return on investment in production and data management technologies and remove cost and cash from the supply chain. The division includes APV, Avantis, Eurotherm, Foxboro, IMServ, SimSci-Esscor, Triconex and Wonderware. These businesses address process and batch industries -- including oil and gas, chemicals, power and utilities, food and beverage, and personal health care -- and the discrete and hybrid manufacturing sectors.

Invensys Rail Systems is a global leader in the design, manufacture, supply, installation, commissioning and maintenance of safety related rail signaling and control systems as well as a complete range of rail signaling and communications products. The business includes Westinghouse Rail Systems Limited (WRSL), Dimetronic Signals, Safetran Systems, Burco Services, Westinghouse Signals Australia and Foxboro Transportation. WRSL was recently awarded two contracts valued at more than £850m (US$1.3 billion) for the renewal of signaling on the London Underground.

Invensys also currently serves other market sectors through its Development Division. The businesses in this division are: Appliance Controls, APV Baker, Climate Controls, Hansen Transmissions, Lambda, Metering Systems and Powerware. Invensys is actively seeking to develop these businesses through equity partners or new owners.

Invensys operates in more than 60 countries, with its headquarters in London. For more information, visit www.invensys.com.

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