Manufacturing Portal tracks assets, manages data.

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Illuminator(TM) v9.0 connects to all data sources that impact production, provides visibility to manufacturing performance and supply chain execution, and helps manufacturing companies maximize assets. Enhancements include improved Digital Dashboard that delivers personalized view in real-time to any authorized user; Alert Manager, which speeds response to unplanned events; and Quality Portal, which delivers real-time, thin client, quality analysis.



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LIGHTHAMMER(TM) RELEASES ILLUMINATOR(TM) VERSION 9


Digital Dashboard for Continuous Improvement - Extends Enterprise Integration

Exton PA - March 27, 2002 - Lighthammer, the leading supplier of Manufacturing Intelligence software, announces the release of the newest version of its flagship product, Illuminator(TM) 9.0. Illuminator connects to all data sources that impact production, enabling real-time visibility to manufacturing performance and supply chain execution. This visibility helps manufacturing companies maximize their asset effectiveness and drive continuous improvement initiatives. Because Illuminator leverages the investment in existing systems and networks, it requires less than 30 days to benefit, creating immediate business return to any manufacturing organization.

Russell Fadel, CEO of Lighthammer, said, "With the pressures on companies to make more effective use of existing manufacturing and IT investments, Illuminator provides the platform for increasing asset effectiveness and driving continuous improvement - all at a fraction of the cost of traditional integrated plant systems. Illuminator makes the dream of real-time visibility and analysis of manufacturing performance attainable by any company."

What's New in 9.0
New capabilities in Version 9 extend Illuminator's capabilities in the areas of Digital Dashboard, Continuous Improvement, Enterprise Quality and Plant-to-Enterprise integration.

For users looking to deploy Digital Dashboard technology, Illuminator's KPI Manager calculates and delivers operational metrics and delivers a personalized view in real-time to any authorized user in the supply chain. This allows Executives, Managers, and Employees to monitor the health of the business in real time - which impact profitability. Financial Performance, Manufacturing Efficiency, Operational Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and other metrics can be delivered directly to users desktops or through wireless devices.

Continuous Improvement Programs such as Six Sigma and Balanced Scorecard can leverage the technology included in Illuminator for collaboration on performance metrics - validating the effectiveness of their Six Sigma project. Illuminator delivers data from multiple data sources on the factory floor. Combining views of data from the factory floor against requirements established in Enterprise Systems creates high value opportunities for savings. Illuminator's Alert Manager speeds the response to unplanned events, dramatically accelerating the attainment of improvement goals. Quality has moved from the realm of specialists, to general users of content and analytics required across the enterprise. Lighthammer's Quality Portal, delivers real-time, thin client, quality analysis to any authorized user in the supply chain. As part of the Illuminator Manufacturing Intelligence solution, quality is delivered with a business context, enabling customers, suppliers and employees to perform quality analysis by order, customer, supplier or material. Correlating quality with associated business context allows supply chain partners to deliver real-time, self-service quality information; speeding shipment releases and shortening root cause analysis.

Enterprise Integration strategies can be delivered in record time using Illuminator Version 9 technology. Linking plant data to Enterprise Systems is streamlined using the Illuminator connector infrastructure. Inventory synchronization, Bill of Material reconciliation, WIP status and key manufacturing metrics can be drawn from both plant and enterprise systems for display on a user's browser. Moreover, key plant transactional data can be delivered from plant floor systems to the enterprise platform using Illuminator's AdvancedXML(TM) module.

Version 9.0 is available today.

Background Information:

About Lighthammer Software Development Corp., a privately held corporation headquartered in Exton, PA., is the leading independent supplier of web products for manufacturing. Lighthammer's Illuminator, the world's first Manufacturing Intelligence Portal, enables real-time visibility to manufacturing performance and supply chain execution enabling companies to maximize their asset effectiveness and drive continuous improvement initiatives. Illuminator is currently is use at more than 200 sites worldwide and has been selected by more than 100 of the Fortune 500 manufacturers as a Manufacturing Intelligence solution.

Further information on Lighthammer and its products can be found at www.lighthammer.com.

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