SigmaQuest is the leader in on-demand scalable solutions for Product Quality Management. Our solution, SigmaSure, leverages a powerful root-cause analysis engine to improve product quality and customer satisfaction. Unlike home-grown systems and MES/ERP systems, SigmaSure is hardware and software agnostic - allowing you to automatically collect consistent data across the extended enterprise and perform detailed analysis on terabytes of parametric data.
SigmaQuest SigmaSure Seamlessly Integrates With NITestStand Print E-mail
SigmaSure and NI TestStand Solve Global Manufacturing Test Challenge

AUSTIN, Texas – 13 August 2003 – SigmaQuest, Inc., a leader in product performance intelligence, announced today that SigmaSure 2.0 seamlessly integrates with National Instruments TestStand™ 3.0. This integrated solution uses NI TestStand and SigmaQuest SigmaSure to provide a total enterprise test solution for global manufacturers. The solution is now immediately available to help engineers take advantage of more than thirty new features in TestStand 3.0 and develop tests faster. A demo of this new solution is on display at NIWeek 2003 in Austin, TX, for the first time.

"This off-the-shelf solution helps test engineers streamline manufacturing test processes,” said Richard McDonell, NI TestStand product manager. “NI TestStand 3.0 delivers a modular test framework for maximizing code reuse and building automated test systems 75 percent faster. SigmaSure offers tight integration with TestStand 3.0 for real-time product performance intelligence across the supply chain. Together, NI TestStand 3.0 and SigmaSure help engineers test products faster and smarter."

"NI TestStand is the de facto industry standard test management software. TestStand 3.0 reduces test system development by more than 50 percent and provides a flexible interface that seamlessly integrates with enterprise systems such as SigmaQuest SigmaSure product performance intelligence tools,” said Nader Fathi, SigmaQuest CEO. “TestStand 3.0 and SigmaSure help customers build a high quality solution to streamline manufacturing test processes.”

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.