SANTA CLARA, Calif., - September 1, 2004 - SigmaQuest, Inc., a leader in Product Performance Intelligence, announced that Mr. Bill Crook, CSI Wireless, and Mr. Nader Fathi, SigmaQuest, were selected by National Instruments as finalists in the NIWeek 2004 Virtual Instrumentation Paper Contest.   The paper contest is held annually as part NIWeek, NI's user conference and exhibition.

Mr. Crook and Mr. Fathi co-authored the paper " Creating a Global Manufacturing Test System for Fixed-Wireless Telephones Using NI LabWindows/CVI."   The paper discusses the real-world challenges CSI faced for developing and testing complex configure-to-order, fixed-wireless telephones (FWT) in geographically dispersed locations.   It describes the NI LabWindows/CVI and SigmaQuest SigmaSure solution CSI has implemented to track to track all stages of the production flow at different manufacturing plants around the world including assembly, configuration, testing, packing, and shipping.  

More than 140 authors from nine countries submitted 77 papers to the NIWeek 2004 Virtual Instrumentation Paper Contest.   A judging committee of more than 100 technical publication editors and NI experts judged the papers on three criteria - technical challenge, innovation, and cost effectiveness.   During NIWeek 2004, 29 category winners and finalists presented their papers during the NIWeek User Sessions. The applications were also displayed at the NIWeek Poster Session.

"We are delighted to be selected as finalists in this competition, " said Nader Fathi, CEO of SigmaQuest.   "And we are honored that CSI Wireless chose us as their solution partner and promoted our solution through this process.   We measure our success by our customers success. "

To read the entire paper, please see: Creating a Global Manufacturing Test System for Fixed-Wireless Telephones Using NI LabWindows/CVI - Customer Solutions - National Instruments.

About CSI Wireless

With offices in Calgary, Silicon Valley, and Phoenix, CSI Wireless designs and manufactures innovative, cost-effective, wireless and GPS products for mobile and fixed applications in the agriculture, marine, automotive and other markets. CSI is a leader in several emerging high-growth markets including Fixed Wireless Telephones, Precision Guidance in Agriculture and Consumer Telematics. The Company owns numerous patents and intellectual property relating to wireless and GPS technologies. It has licensed its cellular technology to GPS, cellular handset, and chipset manufacturers. The company's common shares trade on The Toronto Stock Exchange under the trading symbol "CSY", with approximately 33 million outstanding. For more information about CSI Wireless, go to www.csi-wireless.com.

About SigmaQuest 

SigmaQuest Inc. is an enterprise software company whose solutions provide unprecedented insight and actionable information to ensure product and process integrity by collecting, aggregating and analyzing test and quality data.   Its solutions enable global enterprises and their partners to optimize product time-to-market, cost and quality.   This is accomplished through personalized views of product quality information, pro-active alerts and comprehensive traceability - all in real-time.

The company is headquartered at 2901 Tasman Drive, Suite 109, Santa Clara, CA 95054. It can also be reached at 408-654-9401, www.sigmaquest.com

SigmaQuest is a trademark of SigmaQuest, Inc.   All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.