Expertune and Ipcos Form Partnership for Delivering Plant Performance Solutions


News Release: ExperTune and IPCOS Form Partnership
Release date: Immediate (December 2005)
From: ExperTune Inc., USA
Media contact: George Buckbee, Tel: +1 262 369-7711
george.buckbee@expertune.com

ALTERNATE TITLE: EXPERTUNE AND IPCOS CREATE PARTNERSHIP FOR PLANT
PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS

Hartland, Wisconsin (United States), Leuven (Belgium), 12 December 2005
ExperTune Inc. and IPCOS have signed an agreement to provide best-in-class performance
supervision and process optimization solutions for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The combination of IPCOS consultants applying ExperTune's best-in-class software will benefit many processing plants in the region. IPCOS has more than 200 man-years experience in advanced control applications. ExperTune's software consistently wins awards for innovation and optimization.

"The combination of expert talent, leveraged with best-in-class software, has been proven to accelerate optimization efforts. Process plants using IPCOS services together with ExperTune software can expect to see these benefits directly on the bottom line, including energy savings, quality improvement, and production rate increases ," says John Gerry, President and founder of ExperTune, Inc.

Christiaan Moons, Managing Director of IPCOS, adds "IPCOS has chosen ExperTune because of their proven solution for plant performance supervision. Plant Performance Supervision Systems are indispensable for the industry to be competitive in the market. Especially in the case of Advanced Control, it is crucial that the control system is performing well before implementing. Advanced Control. PlantTriage® makes a perfect fit with the services and software solutions IPCOS already delivers to the industry."

Services offered through this partnership include:

· Process Plant Dynamic Optimization
· Sales & Installation of ExperTune PlantTriage®
· Identification and ranking of highest-priority problems
· Solving Problems and Quantifying Benefits
· Training, from Overview to In-Depth training, always with a hands-on approach

John Gerry continued, "We are very excited that process plants in Europe, the Middle East, and Northern Africa will be better able to step-up their optimization efforts. When two strong teams come together, we are able to push the optimization envelope even further than before."

ABOUT ExperTune: ExperTune is the company behind PlantTriage®, an enterprise-wide,
performance supervision system that pinpoints opportunities for maximum economic benefit.ExperTune can be found online at www.expertune.com.

ABOUT IPCOS: IPCOS provides Advanced Process Control (APC) and plant optimization
solutions (software and services) for the Chemical, Glass, Power and Oil & Gas industry. IPCOS can be found online at www.ipcos.com

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