AeroScout Customer Viracon Named a Winner of the Managing Automation 2009 Progressive Manufacturing 100 Awards

Glass Manufacturer Awarded Top Honors in the Category of Operational Excellence
Mastery for Its Asset Tracking Achievements Across Three Facilities
OWATONNA, Minn. & REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Viracon, a leading architectural glass fabricator in the United States and a
subsidiary of Apogee Enterprises (NASDAQ: APOG), and AeroScout, the leading
provider of Unified Asset Visibility for improving operational efficiency, today
announced that Viracon has been named a winner of the fifth annual Progressive
Manufacturing 100 Awards, receiving top honors in the category of Operational
Excellence Mastery. Viracon received the honors for its effective use of
AeroScout`s Wi-Fi RFID Asset Tracking solution to accurately track the location
of more than 5,000 glass carriers throughout its three manufacturing facilities.
As a result, Viracon has increased its success rate in pinpointing the exact
location of carriers to over 99%, cut the reproduction and scrap of lost
carriers by 65% and significantly improved productivity and production cycle
times.

Sheila Meixner, vice president of process improvement at Viracon, said, "At
Viracon we`re constantly looking for ways to operate more efficiently; so we are
proud of our Progressive Manufacturing 100 Award and the results we`ve achieved
with the AeroScout Asset Tracking solution. In fact, the project has been so
successful that it paid for itself within six months of installation."

Based in Owatonna, Minnesota, Viracon has 2,000 employees and produces
high-performance glass products, including tempered, laminated, insulating,
silk-screened and high-performance coatings. Over the last three decades Viracon
has produced and installed more than 500 million square feet of glazing for over
100,000 buildings, including some of the most remarkable buildings throughout
the world.

With the AeroScout solution, Viracon tracks 5,800 work-in-process glass carriers
in its three manufacturing campuses in Minnesota, Georgia and Utah. The solution
reduces cycle time and scrap, and ensures that the correct glass is transported
on time to its correct destination throughout the various fabrication processes.

AeroScout Wi-Fi Tags are attached to all in-process glass carriers, providing
shop-floor operators with complete visibility of glass carriers as they move
freely throughout the manufacturing facilities. The solution leverages Viracon`s
Cisco Unified Wireless Network to avoid the need for a dedicated network of
readers to enable location determination. When operators need to find a
particular glass carrier, they search for it using AeroScout`s MobileView
software on computer terminals on the shop floor. The real-time location of the
required carrier is presented on a site map on the computer screen, allowing
operators to locate carriers within seconds.

"Viracon is an excellent case study of a company using AeroScout solutions to
drive lean manufacturing and operational efficiency," said Gabi Daniely, vice
president of marketing and product strategy at AeroScout. "Best of all, Viracon
was able to use its existing Cisco Unified Wireless Network to add asset
tracking and management solutions, which made the installation quick and easy
and has reduced the total cost of ownership of the solution. The combination of
quicker deployment and significant efficiency gains led to Viracon achieving a
six-month payback on the project."

The Viracon and AeroScout implementation was chosen for the PM100 award by an
independent and prestigious judging panel chaired by David R. Brousell,
Editor-in-Chief, Managing Automation Media, and Jeff Moad, Executive Editor,
Managing Automation (a Thomas Publishing Company, LLC publication). The PM100
recognizes 100 projects that have achieved distinction in at least one of the
eight core disciplines defined by Managing Automation Media as critical to
business success in the years ahead. Companies that achieve Operational
Excellence are those that have mastered the ideas of continuous improvement as
advocated in such disciplines as Six Sigma and lean manufacturing. And they
achieve measurable excellence not only in internal operations, but also in those
processes that involve customers, partners and suppliers.

"In the face of one of the worst economic downturns in history, these winning
companies dramatically underscore how the manufacturing industry will not only
get through this period, but emerge in an even stronger position once a recovery
takes hold," said Brousell. "These companies are leading the way to a better
future for all industry."

AeroScout will be showcasing its Asset Tracking solution and all of its Unified
Asset Visibility solutions in booth #349 at Cisco Live! held in San Francisco,
Calif., June 27 - July 2.

About Managing Automation Media

Managing Automation Media, a division of Thomas Publishing Company, LLC,
provides a complete set of decision-support informational tools for executives
and technology decision-makers at progressive manufacturers - companies that are
using information and automation technologies to transform their businesses and
create a sustainable competitive advantage. In North America with Managing
Automation, and now also in EMEA with Manufacturing Executive, they deliver
access to the most influential decision-makers in manufacturing. Additional
information can be found at managingautomationmedia.com.

About Viracon, Inc.

Viracon is based in Owatonna, Minnesota, and has facilities in Statesboro,
Georgia and St. George, Utah. The company is an international company of Apogee
Enterprises, Inc. Viracon produces high-performance glass products, including
tempered, laminated, insulating, silk-screened and high-performance coatings.
Apogee Enterprises, Inc. is a leading fabricator, distributor and installer of
value-added glass products and systems. Headquartered in Minneapolis, the
company`s stock is traded on NASDAQ under the symbol APOG.

About AeroScout

AeroScout is the market leader in Unified Asset Visibility solutions. Customers
improve operational efficiency using AeroScout products that leverage standard
Wi-Fi networks to track and manage the location, condition and status of mobile
assets and people. AeroScout`s global customer base consists of leading
hospital, manufacturing and logistics organizations, including many of the
Fortune 500. The company invented the first Wi-Fi-based Active RFID tag, and
today is widely recognized as leading the market in number of deployments and
tags shipped. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, AeroScout has offices
in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and Latin America. For more
information, please visit www.aeroscout.com.

AeroScout is a registered trademark of AeroScout, Inc. Wi-Fi is a trademark of
the Wi-Fi Alliance. All other trademarks are the property of their respective
owners. Information is subject to change without notice.

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