Picking System is track based and light directed.

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EASYpick® Trak Light provides distribution center and warehouse order fulfillment and picking support with menu-based functionality. With Ethernet plug-in design, it offers snap-together, single-cable connections, and microprocessors in all display units as well as and modular units that snap in at pick face. Each unit has unique internal address with ability to communicate independently with single controller for message transmission throughout entire order management network.



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FKI Logistex Real Time Solutions Extends Distribution Center Support With EASYpick® Trak Light



Offers DCs increased order fulfillment reliability and functionality

(Emeryville, CA: July 8, 2003) FKI Logistex® Real Time Solutions (www.picktolight.com), an FKI Logistex (LSE: FKI.L) member company and leading single-point supplier of integrated material handling solutions for distribution, baggage handling, freight, parcel, and manufacturing applications, extends distribution center and warehouse order fulfillment and picking support with EASYpick® Trak Light, a track-based light-directed picking system. This new generation of EASYpick Trak Light is an ethernet plug-in design. It offers snap-together single-cable connections and microprocessors in all display units and features modular units which snap in at the pick face. The EASYpick Trak Light system requires fewer devices than traditionally wired systems and is easy to reconfigure and maintain.

Each EASYpick Trak Light unit has a unique internal address with an ability to communicate independently with a single controller for faster message transmission throughout the entire order management network. Expanded menu-based functionality means functional changes can be downloaded to EASYpick Trak Light devices at any time. Function changes such as quantity adjustment and fulls can be made quickly with simple programming changes to the menu and are not dependent on specific keypads.

EASYpick Trak Light interfaces with a wide variety of host interfaces. Linux controllers drive the Trak system, allowing FKI Logistex Real Time Solutions support desk personnel to connect remotely with the system to resolve maintenance issues.

"EASYpick Trak Light represents a major architectural design breakthrough which will improve light-directed picking use and maintenance inside the distribution center," said Real Time Solutions president, Stephen Legg. "Together with the rest of the EASYpick product suite, EASYpick Trak Light now offers customers a more precise view of their entire DC operation. Combined with our Outbound Productivity Suite (OPS) software, EASYpick Trak Light offers one of the most sophisticated warehouse control systems on the market. The beauty of this system is that our EASYpick technology is more sophisticated now than ever, reducing order errors and decreasing order turnaround time while getting easier to install and operate."

EASYpick Trak Light is an optional upgrade to the Real Time Solutions EASYpick order fulfillment suite. For sales information on EASYpick Trak Light and other EASYpick order fulfillment technology, contact Jeff Everingham at FKI Logistex Real Time Solutions by phone at (510) 985-6300 or by e-mail at info@picktolight.com. Visit Real Time Solutions on the web at www.picktolight.com.

About FKI Logistex Real Time Solutions

FKI Logistex Real Time Solutions systems are installed and maintained in over 300 sites in North America, Latin America, and Europe, with more than one million lights installed. Key products include Outbound Productivity Suite (OPS), EASYpick® and EASYput® order fulfillment systems, RF carts with lights, EASYpick voice, and light trees on carousels, each providing real-time management tools to help balance work load distribution, monitor order completion, and track productivity.

Real Time Solutions, an FKI Logistex member company, is the leading developer and provider of hardware and software order filling solutions that increase productivity and accuracy in warehouses and distribution centers. Real Time Solutions, which has been evolving paperless picking solutions for more than a decade, currently has more than 70 employees, and headquarters its operations in Emeryville, California.

For more information, contact Jeff Everingham, FKI Logistex Real Time Solutions, by telephone at (510) 985-6300, via e-mail at info@picktolight.com, or by visiting www.picktolight.com.

About FKI Logistex

FKI Logistex® is a leading supplier of integrated material handling solutions for distribution, baggage handling, freight, parcel, and manufacturing applications. FKI Logistex supplies its customers with an integrated set of leading edge technologies in high-speed sortation, conveyor systems, carousels, palletizing, paperless pick products, AS/RS, controls, order processing software, warehouse control systems, and total materials handling automation.

FKI Logistex (www.fkilogistex.com) is a part of FKI plc (LSE: FKI.L), a UK-based international engineering group. FKI Logistex is comprised of the industry's most successful and recognized brands, including Alvey Systems, Cleco, Crisplant, Crisplant a/s, Automation Division (incorporating Buschman Operations, Mathews Operations, and CMP Corporation), Integration Division, Io Systems, Real Time Solutions, and White Systems.

For more information, contact FKI Logistex, 1500 Lebanon Road, Danville, KY, 40422, by phone at (877) 935-4564 or by e-mail at info@fkilogistex.com.

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