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Widespread Customer Adoption of Invensys' ArchestrA Technology Accelerates Via Repeat Customer Projects and New Products

Posted on: Tuesday, 24 February 2004, 06:00 CST

Leading Global Companies Implementing More Than 125 Projects Built on ArchestrA Technology; Invensys Demonstrates ArchestrA Technology in

Microsoft Booth #4811 at National Manufacturing Week Trade Show

¶ Invensys announced today that customer adoption of ArchestrA technology is accelerating with repetitive rollouts on Invensys projects, and new Wonderware (UIR:PQG2336) software products that add value to multi-vendor, legacy system installations. ¶ Wonderware has been shipping the Industrial Application Server, which is built on ArchestrA technology, for just over one year. To date, more than 125 automation and information projects have been completed or are underway at leading global companies across a broad range of industries, including oil and gas, food and beverage, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, paper, automotive, steel, electronics and utilities. These diverse customer project applications feature remote SCADA operations, plant-wide supervisory control, plant intelligence, regulatory compliance, production management and enterprise collaboration. ¶ Recent repeat orders are coming from companies such as DaimlerChrysler, General Mills, Georgia-Pacific, Nucor Steel, SABMiller and Trusjoist, a division of Weyerhauser Corp. In addition, Wonderware has shipped more than 2,500 copies of FactorySuite A2 ("A-squared") software featuring the ArchestrA integrated development environment to customers as part of its comprehensive software support agreements. The "A-squared" indicates the presence of ArchestrA technology. ¶"The ArchestrA technology vision of enabling the rapid and effective capture and reuse of intellectual property is now a reality for Wonderware customers," said Mark Davidson, vice president of global marketing for Invensys' Wonderware and ArchestrA business units. "We are very pleased with how customers across diverse industries are re-implementing their company engineering standards and deriving significant productivity benefits from products that utilize ArchestrA technology. Within the past months, approximately 6,000 people have experienced ArchestrA technology with FactorySuite A2 products using our online ArchestrA Technology Test Drive."¶ The ArchestrA Technology Test Drive can be accessed via www.invensys.com/archestra. ¶ More than 120 third-party systems and plant networks are now classified as "ArchestrA Ready," allowing a wide range of current plant data sources to plug into ArchestrA applications. Ten Invensys and third-party systems offer even higher levels of ArchestrA integration. These include offerings that are "Integrated with ArchestrA" for advanced communications and diagnostics, and offerings "Built on ArchestrA" for instant integration of the most common industrial application functions such as plant modeling, configuration, alarming, historization, scripting and IT integration using Microsoft(R) .NET technology. ¶ The latest Wonderware software offering leverages customer investment in legacy GE Fanuc iFIX(R) and FIX(TM) 32 HMI installations is an ArchestrA proxy object. ¶ Wonderware application engineers and systems integrators have contributed downloadable and reusable application object templates to the ArchestrA Application Object Warehouse to facilitate rapid application assembly and reuse. ¶ For a complete listing of shareware software objects, products, programs and user forums that support the ArchestrA community of interest, visit www.archestra.biz. ¶ ArchestrA development tools and software technology are openly available to third-party systems integrators and OEMs to help make them more competitive and encapsulate their unique domain knowledge and value-add. ¶ Invensys continues to work closely with Microsoft Corp. to ensure that customer applications built on the ArchestrA software architecture meet the mission-critical needs of industry while evolving effectively as the Microsoft Windows Server System and Microsoft .NET technologies evolve. Microsoft and Invensys recently formed an alliance to work together to market and sell Invensys products and solutions that use ArchestrA technology. ¶"Invensys is a good example of a Microsoft partner taking advantage of a full range of Microsoft's products and technologies -- BizTalk Server 2004, SharePoint Portal and Live Communications Server -- to ensure that the ArchestrA environment delivers collaborative solutions across discrete, process, hybrid and building industries," said Don Richardson, director, manufacturing industry solutions at Microsoft. ¶ For more information about ArchestrA technology, speak with an Invensys representative in Microsoft Booth #4811 at National Manufacturing Week trade show in Chicago Feb. 23 to 26. Or, visit www.invensys.com/archestra or www.archestra.biz. For more information on Microsoft, visit www.microsoft.com.

¶ About Invensys' Wonderware and ArchestrA Business Units

¶ Wonderware and ArchestrA are business units of Invensys Systems Inc. Wonderware is the world's leading supplier of industrial automation and information software. Founded in 1987, Wonderware pioneered the use of the Microsoft(R) Windows(R) operating system in HMI automation software for manufacturing operation systems. Wonderware software powers intelligent plant decisions in real time. ArchestrA technology provides a unified set of software services that enables every system in your plant, working in concert. ¶ Based in Lake Forest, Calif., the Wonderware and ArchestrA business units have 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. For more information, visit www.wonderware.com or www.invensys.com/archestra.

¶ About Invensys

¶ Invensys is a global leader in production technology and solutions. The group helps customers improve productivity, performance and profitability using innovative services and technologies and a deep understanding of their industries and applications. ¶ Invensys business units work 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. Leading Invensys brands focused on production management include 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 operates in more than 60 countries, with its headquarters in London. For more information, visit www.invensys.com.

¶ Note to Editors: Invensys, Wonderware, ArchestrA, InTouch, APV, Avantis, Eurotherm, Foxboro, IMServ, SimSci-Esscor and Triconex are trademarks of Invensys plc, its subsidiaries and affiliated companies. All other brands and product names may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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