The seminar followed SigmaQuest’s recent announcement of joining National Instruments Alliance Program to provide integrated solutions to help customers bridge the gap between design, manufacturing, and test in complex, global environments to improve quality at lower costs. These solutions based on NI TestStand™, a test management environment for organizing, controlling, and executing automated tests, and SigmaQuest SigmaSure, a suite of tools for capturing, aggregating, and analyzing test results in a global environment, were highlighted at the seminar. Presenters from both companies demonstrated key features of their solutions for OEMs and manufacturers who need real time monitoring and control of product quality.

“This was another very successful seminar with NI to help our joint customers achieve higher quality at lower costs. Customer feedback on our integrated solutions is positive; they see real synergy between NI TestStand and SigmaQuest SigmaSure. We are pleased to be working with National Instruments to provide global manufacturing test solutions for our customers,” said Nader Fathi, SigmaQuest CEO.

About National Instruments

National Instruments is a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation -- a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists approach measurement and automation. Leveraging the PC and its related technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs for customers worldwide through easy-to-integrate software, such as the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment, and modular hardware, such as PXI modules for data acquisition, instrument control and machine vision. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,000 employees and direct operations in 40 countries. In 2002, the company sold products to more than 25,000 different companies in more than 80 countries around the world. For the past four consecutive years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.

About SigmaQuest

SigmaQuest (www.sigmaquest.com), a leader in product performance intelligence, is the first to enable global visibility to test and quality data for electronic systems manufacturing. The company's revolutionary "any-data, any-tester, anywhere" technology supports automated test and quality data management and analysis across multiple geographies, test equipment suppliers, and extended supply chain members. Original equipment manufacturers and contract manufacturers achieve lower materials costs, lower manufacturing and support costs, and faster time to revenue.

About SigmaSure

SigmaSure v2.0 consists of SigmaProbe, SigmaConnect, SigmaAnalysis and SigmaSPC. SigmaProbe provides real-time test data capture through its application programming interface (API) that supports C, C++, C#, Perl, Java, Visual Basic and NI TestStand. SigmaConnect employs peer-to-peer technology to mine the data warehouse across the extended supply chain. Based on SigmaConnect's flexible data mining capabilities, SigmaAnalysis provides configurable data visualization as well as packaged analytics. SigmaSPC (Statistical Process Control) is real-time analytics for understanding processes and improving quality.