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Fri Jun 6, 2008 8:05am EDT

Eyelit Inc. Announces Partnership With SYSTEMA to Support Growth and Demand From Photovoltaic (PV) Solar Panel Industry

   SYSTEMA to Distribute Eyelit's Award Winning MES and Quality
Management Suite, Provide Product Support and Consulting Services
TORONTO--(Business Wire)--
Eyelit, Inc., a manufacturing software provider for visibility,
control, and coordination of manufacturing operations for the solar
(photovoltaic) panel, aerospace & defense, electronics, life sciences,
and semiconductor industries announced today a comprehensive
partnership agreement with SYSTEMA GmbH, a provider of manufacturing
automation software solutions and integration services. This agreement
greatly expands Eyelit's global presence and ability to meet growing
demand for Eyelit's product suite.

   Under the terms of the agreement, SYSTEMA will provide local
European support, consulting services and be a distributor of Eyelit's
innovative product suite. Eyelit's product suite provides a uniquely
affordable paperless manufacturing system that helps companies better
manage and control operations, improve yields and product quality,
reach volumes quickly and reduce time to market. With MES, Asset
Management, Quality and Compliance Management, Product Costing and
Integration, Eyelit's product suite is the broadest out-of-the-box
solution in the industry.

   Already a trained Eyelit solution provider, SYSTEMA has an
outstanding reputation for delivering quality products and services to
high-tech and Semiconductor companies. Some of SYSTEMA's customers
include industry leaders such as AMD, Qimonda, Hewlett-Packard,
Infineon, and Siltronic. SYSTEMA provides manufacturing automation
solutions and integration services on the levels of Equipment, MES and
ERP including data collection and analysis solutions (EDC, SPC, APC,
FDC). SYSTEMA brings a wealth of industry and software knowledge to
the relationship having deep working knowledge and experience
implementing and integrating MES systems such as FAB300, Factoryworks,
PROMIS MES and Worksteam and ERP systems such as SAP and Oracle EBS.

   "We are excited to partner with Eyelit and the ability to bring
such ground-breaking products to the marketplace. Eyelit is known for
exceptional customer support and innovative Products; we have been
impressed with the capability, flexibility and built-in integration
abilities of the Eyelit product suite. In combining Eyelit's products
suite and SYSTEMA's automation solution and integration capability, we
believe we can provide the best solution in the industry and deliver
real value to our customers. Eyelit products are the right solution
fit for companies looking to cost-effectively improve operations and
quickly improve their bottom line," said Manfred Austen, SYSTEMA's
CEO.

   "We immediately wanted to partner with SYSTEMA once we saw their
technology and capability; both companies are very customer-focused,
which is critical to our mutual success. Their extensive experience
and knowledge of Workstream, adds to Eyelit's already deep
understanding of PROMIS MES and now enables Eyelit to provide
migrations from both legacy semiconductor MES solutions. The
partnership also greatly expands Eyelit global presence with SYSTEMA's
operations in Europe, USA and Asia," said Salil Jain CEO of Eyelit
Inc.

   About Eyelit, Inc. (www.eyelit.com)

   Eyelit is the leader in Manufacturing Execution, Quality and
Business Process Management (MES, CAPA and BPM) solutions for
visibility, control, and coordination of manufacturing operations for
the aerospace & defense, electronics, semiconductor, and solar
(photovoltaic) panel industries. Eyelit uniquely delivers a broad set
of manufacturing solutions including Asset Management, Factory
Integration (Automation), Lean Manufacturing, Manufacturing Execution
(MES), Supply Chain Execution, Quality Management (CAPA/OCAP, SPC,
APC) and Business Process Management that enable our customers to
rapidly and cost-effectively optimize production and company
processes. With exceptional customer service, Eyelit has time and
again proven superior innovative technology can deliver quicker time
to value. More than 40 leading companies, including A123 Systems,
Analog Devices, FLIR Systems, Freescale Semiconductor, HelioVolt, and
VTI Technologies rely on Eyelit as a trusted software partner.

   About SYSTEMA GmbH (www.systemagmbh.de)

   SYSTEMA, a specialist in seamless system integration and
manufacturing automation in high tech industry and photovoltaic
industry, understands its customers requirements. The high quality
solutions and substantial experience help to contribute to increasing
throughput and efficiency in the customers manufacturing lines.
SYSTEMA's wide range of products and services provide a flexible
solution to industry's accelerating time-to-market requirements.
SYSTEMA offers turn key solutions or packages for high integrated and
fully automated EI, MES and ERP systems.

   Headquartered in Dresden Germany, SYSTEMA has offices in
Regensburg Germany, Thailand and the United States. This world wide
presence enables SYSTEMA to provide solutions around the globe.

Eyelit, Inc.
Lisa Medeiros, 905-502-6184
lmedeiros@eyelit.com
www.eyelit.com
or
SYSTEMA Systementwicklung
Jochen Kinauer, +49 351 88 24 613 (Sales & Marketing)
Fax: +49 351 88 24 772
jochen.kinauer@systemagmbh.de
www.systemagmbh.de

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