Thales Avionics Selects Visiprise to Improve Visibility and Tracking

Avionics Leader Relies on Visiprise for Sophisticated Quality Management

ATLANTA and LONDON -- March 30, 2004 -- Visiprise Inc., the recognized leader in manufacturing execution systems for the electronics, aerospace and defense, and automotive industries, today announced that Thales Avionics, a world leader in aerospace and defense electronic systems, has selected the Visiprise Manufacturing solution to help streamline quality management, enhance business visibility and reduce operation costs.

European leader and world-renowned partner in avionics, utilities and in-flight entertainment, Thales Avionics is one more in a long line of military and aerospace electronics customers for Visiprise. Critical genealogy and test and repair-loop management are high priority items for this manufacturer.

"Visiprise truly understands the unique requirements in our industry and can grow with our business as we roll out other manufacturing improvement initiatives," said Paul Elliott, manufacturing engineering manager, Thales Avionics. "Visiprise's verified defect and genealogy capabilities will significantly improve our repair-loop, work-in-process, and historical defect reporting."

After an evaluation, Thales Avionics selected Visiprise because the solution makes suggestions as to fault diagnosis and repair information, and tracks repaired items throughout the manufacturing process. This will benefit Thales Avionics in the areas of genealogy-linked defect tracking and test area management. At testing stations on production lines, Visiprise Manufacturing will collect detailed product test information automatically from instruments and provide this to operators for fault analysis. The system will use defect information to develop a failure Pareto chart for the same test failure occurring on a similar unit under test.

"Visiprise provides Thales Avionics with timely information sharing between manufacturing and design teams to enable informed decisions regarding process and design changes, to improve product quality, and to decrease time-to-market while reducing costs," said Robert Consoli, vice president of worldwide sales at Visiprise.

About Visiprise
Visiprise is the leading provider of software solutions for real-time visibility and control of manufacturing operations for discrete manufacturers. Visiprises' flagship solution Visiprise Manufacturing is a web-based, collaborative manufacturing execution system (MES) that helps manage and track the entire production process. Visiprise Manufacturing is the industry's only independent platform technology for manufacturing execution -- providing scalable, integration-ready solutions for a multi-facility enterprise.

Visiprise has customers in the electronics, aerospace & defense, automotive, and medical devices industries, including BAE Systems, Celestica, DaimlerChrysler, Philips Lighting, Sun Microsystems, and Textron. Visit www.visiprise.com .

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