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Visiprise Accelerates Value for Customers with Launch of Visiprise Manufacturing 3.2

New release offers greater functionality and better production operation management for discrete manufacturing processes

ATLANTA, GA - June 21, 2004 — Visiprise, Inc., the leader in manufacturing execution systems for the electronics, aerospace and defense, automotive and medical device industries, today announced the immediate availably of Visiprise Manufacturing 3.2. Offering extended features such as engineering change management and enhanced labor tracking, this version of the company's leading manufacturing production operation management solution gives customers unparalleled production visibility across the global enterprise from start to finish.

Fueled by customer input, the newest version of Visiprise Manufacturing adds more than 20 new production operation management processes to help growing, discrete manufacturers meet the fundamental manufacturing objectives of accelerating product delivery, optimizing cost efficiency and enhancing product quality. Using advanced enterprise visibility to accomplish this, customers gain competitive advantages and can increase shareholder value through reductions in operational costs.

"Built upon a series of flexible components, Visiprise Manufacturing 3.2 combines the most advanced industry methodologies and the latest in J2EE technology to define, track and report on real-time information from a user's shop floor," said Sean McCloskey, president and chief executive officer of Visiprise. "The result enables our customers to build upon Six Sigma and lean manufacturing programs to drive increased productivity, lower cost of quality and enhanced manufacturing efficiency."

Some of the enhanced production operation management features found in Visiprise Manufacturing 3.2 that uniquely permit customers to take advantage of the critical plant floor and enterprise information include the following:

• Quality Management provides the enhanced ability to help customers in the real-time identification, disposition and prevention of crucial quality issues on the shop floor.
• Time-based Traceability offers a deeper capability to automatically configure, validate and trace component assembly information at the shop floor level enabling complex product configuration with fewer support personnel.
• Engineering Change Management streamlines the change order process so an organization can easily track and manage changes to maintain a higher degree of accuracy and accountability.

"This release of Visiprise Manufacturing further solidifies the company's position as a leading provider of production management solutions," said Greg Gorbach, research analyst for ARC Advisory Group. "By focusing on automating the fundamental production operation management activities needed to make a product and delivering that as an integrated series of components working together on shop floor activities, Visiprise continues to deliver value to discrete manufactures."

About Visiprise

Visiprise is the leading provider of software solutions for real-time visibility and control of manufacturing operations for discrete manufacturers in the electronics, aerospace and defense, automotive and medical devices industries. Visiprise´s flagship solution, Visiprise Manufacturing is a web-based, collaborative manufacturing execution system (MES) that helps manage and track the entire production process. Visiprise Manufacturing is the industry's only independent platform technology for manufacturing execution -- providing scalable, integration-ready solutions for a multi-facility enterprise.

Atlanta-based Visiprise has more than 150 customers worldwide, including BAE Systems, Celestica, DaimlerChrysler, Philips Lighting, Sun Microsystems and Textron. For more information, visit www.visiprise.com.

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Contact for Visiprise:
Mike Neumeier
404-451-7832
mneumeier@gaughanandswann.com