SANTA CLARA, Calif., October 24, 2005--SigmaQuest™ Inc., the leading provider of software for managing product quality throughout manufacturing and a product’s lifecycle, today announced the release of SigmaSure 5.0. The new software is built on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) vs. an object-oriented architecture, which means it is now easier to integrate with other software that customers may own and thus easier for OEMs to utilize and adopt. Further, with SigmaSure 5.0, SigmaQuest is offering several industry-unique modules and enhancements that further automate the tracking of quality and reliability problems early on and throughout the manufacturing process to make organizations more efficient and to reduce manufacturing-transformation costs.

"During the last five years, SigmaQuest has helped many global OEMs design, manufacture and service products better. We attribute much of this success to our excellent design team and customer support, yet also to the fact that we continue to enhance our software to meet our customers’ ever-evolving needs," said Nader Fathi, CEO of SigmaQuest. "Customers, particularly those with global manufacturing centers, keep telling us that with SigmaSure they know in real-time what is taking place with their product development and what distinguishes SigmaSure is our enterprise software expertise, capabilities and advanced analytics. SigmaSure 5.0 takes yet another quantum leap to further help this large customer base capture and evaluate design, manufacturing and test data, and distribute it throughout their organizations."

Key new features of SigmaSure 5.0 include:

New Architecture Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)—the company migrated from an object-oriented to SOA to provide loose coupling among interacting software agents. With this approach, SigmaSure can interact with other applications Role-Based Access Control—now SigmaSure can be modified by customers so they can designate which parties gain full access to the data vs. subsets of data. This is particularly useful when data is being accessed by third-party organizations such as outsourced/offshore manufacturing centers. New Modules Defective Material Report (DMR)—using this new web-based subsystem, users can readily track non-conforming parts such as defective or out-of-specification components. The data can then be analyzed within SigmaAnalysis to calculate confirmed yields. Device Genealogy—SigmaSure now captures and reports the hierarchy of the unit under test (UUT) during test and manufacturing. This provides crucial root-cause and failure analysis information to global manufacturers. Advanced Analytics What-If-Analysis–-decisions can now be made more quickly as users can instantly explore scenarios as soon as changes are suggested. For example, users can change parameter values or limits on the fly and see the corresponding impact on yield, product performance and Statistical Process Control (SPC) indices. Users can also specify data inclusion limits, aggregation of data outside inclusion limits and then calculate process control based on these user specified limits. Expanded Statistical Process Control (SPC) Analytics—provide correlation analysis so users can test the effect of tightening or loosening limits on SPC calculations and yields. In addition, users can search and drill down to investigate specific error codes within existing and past test results. Furthermore, this enhanced SPC calculates Skewness, Kurtosis & Coefficient of variance plus calculation of variance based on limits. Yield Analysis–-SigmaSure now calculates first-pass yield, last-pass yield, overall yield plus confirmed and system yields. Enhancements to User Interface Push-Button Reporting—Users can automatically schedule the generation of reports, which are automatically converted into a word processing document. The need for manual report generation is removed. Alerts System Now Integrated with Dashboard—Alerts on product, process, parametric, station, fixture, etc., can now be easily scheduled by users and appear automatically in the SigmaSure Dashboard. Advanced Selection and Search–-Users can now access their data by grouping products by category and/or via searching text/binary attachments. Furthermore, time-based selection tree, user defined mode/outcome, mapping of modes/outcome and sharing of templates through user groups make it easier to mine through the desired data. Mr. Husam Kal, director of new product introduction and manufacturing engineering at Proxim Wireless, commented, "SigmaQuest’s SigmaSure has proven to be an excellent solution for helping us to deliver higher volumes of quality product, as we are able to gain insight into our global product manufacturing centers and quickly identify when a remedy should be made. Further, with the release of 5.0, the software gives us even more benefits, particularly as it is built on a SOA. his means we can readily integrate it with our existing software platforms and test tracking systems."

Availability SigmaSure 5.0 is available now. Existing customers on maintenance will get upgraded to the new software free of charge.

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, controlling and analyzing test and quality data. Its solutions enable global enterprises such as OEMs that design, manufacture and service a broad array of products ranging from wireless devices to pacemakers to fuel cells, 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.