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Motorola Factory Deploys First Trial of IPC 2501 Standard For Web-Based Exchange of XML Data.

DEER PARK, IL - January 29, 2003 - Motorola (NYSE: MOT) announced the successful completion of an initial trial of the IPC 2501 factory floor messaging standard in its Automotive Communications and Electronics Systems (ACES) factory in Seguin, Texas. The new IPC 2501 standard is designed to significantly lower the cost of ownership of factory information systems by leveraging existing Internet infrastructure investments and providing enhanced communication of data from shop-floor equipment through the manufacturing enterprise into the supply chain.

The purpose of the trial run in September of last year was to test the robustness of the IPC 2501 standard in a live factory environment and to verify its compatibility with existing Intranet/Internet infrastructure. Several key members of the IPC standards committee were involved, including Agilent Technologies, Georgia Institute of Technology Manufacturing Research Center, FUJI America Corporation, Motorola, Siemens-Dematic Electronics Assembly Systems AG (Siplace), and Teradyne, Inc. To run the trial, the team used the Manufacturing Pulse monitoring and execution software developed by the Motorola Global Software Group, a Siplace line optimization application and Teradyne Manufacturing Software Group's SCE collaborative manufacturing execution system. These web-based applications were used to monitor several sets of manufacturing equipment, including XML-ready Agilent 3070 in-circuit testers, Fuji CP-7 and Universal GSM pick-and-place machines. The team members gathered performance and functional feedback data on the performance, reliability, and scalability of the standard over a three-day period. All the applications and equipment involved in the trial exchanged messages through an IPC-2501 compliant message broker produced by the Georgia Institute of Technology.

"This successful factory trial demonstrated that no technical barriers exist that might impede the implementation of a simple, standard, and ubiquitous data format," said Brent Bohmont, senior manufacturing engineer, Motorola. "The IPC 2501 standard is compatible with Seguin's network infrastructure from both the network and security perspectives. The XML data streams from the equipment provided a common format to support all of our data collection and reporting requirements. The standard was robust and scalable enough to handle the large amounts of data required to optimize our manufacturing process."

All of the participants in the initial deployment trial agreed that this new standard offers a great deal of promise to reduce costs, increase flexibility, and provide more functionality to manufacturers, and that the Seguin deployment trial demonstrated that it is ready for industry adoption. To speed up the adoption of IPC 2501 and enhance the standard, IPC Standards committee members are planning two more deployment trials during the first quarter of next year. These two trials are scheduled to be at NACOM and Nortel Networks.

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