NEW RELEASE – July 14, 2003 – Santa Clara, CA, SigmaQuest, a leader in product performance intelligence, announced today they will participate in National Instruments Worldwide Virtual Instrumentation Conference, NIWeek 2003, to be held at the Austin Convention Center, August 12 – 15, in Austin, Texas. NIWeek is the annual National Instruments technical conference and exhibition drawing engineers from around the world to share ideas and learn about advancements in virtual instrumentation.

As part of the NIWeek activities, SigmaQuest will demonstrate the powerful capabilities of SigmaSure, a suite of highly flexible software tools for capturing, accessing, and analyzing test results in a global manufacturing environment. The demonstrations will feature the seamless integration of SigmaSure with NI LabVIEW™ 7.0 Express and NI TestStand™ test management software to show how engineers can leverage commercial off-the-shelf tools to quickly find, fix, and avoid problems across distributed environments.

Demonstrations of SigmaQuest’s software at NIWeek 2003 will include:

“SigmaSure’s Infinite Levels of Visibility” – SigmaSure employs next generation technology to provide real-time access to test data collected in remote sites. This demonstration will show how heterogeneous data from many sites can be easily aggregated and analyzed in real-time to quickly identify problems to reduce cost of manufacturing. The drill down capability for pinpointing specific product failures and analysis tools for predicting and implementing early warning systems will be highlighted.

“Advanced LabVIEW 7.0 Express Integration” – The demonstration will show how to empower LabVIEW users to perform global data management with the New easy to use SigmaQuest LabVIEW instrument drivers.

“TestStand and SigmaSure Solution for Global Test” – The integrated solution from SigmaQuest announced earlier this year will highlight how NI TestStand, the de facto standard off-the-shelf test management software, is used with SigmaSure to seamlessly provide global test data visibility and real-time web-based analysis across the extended supply chain throughout the entire product lifecycle.

SigmaQuest will be located in booth 155 in the NIWeek 2003 Exhibition Hall. For more information about the demonstrations and SigmaQuest products and services, please send an e-mail to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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.