Free White Paper Details Outsourcing Strategy “Musts” for Defense Contractor Companies

CRANSTON, R.I. – August 21, 2007 – A new, free white paper detailing the seven things defense contractor companies must know before selecting an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) partner for outsourcing military and government contract manufacturing projects is now available at http://www.federalelec.com/militarypaper.

While government contractors and other suppliers to the U.S. military have only recently started to explore the role of outsourcing contracts as a means to create a competitive advantage, the practice is on the fast track. Analysts estimate that outsourcing among prime military contractors will exceed $4 billion this year.

“And for good reason,” according to Ed Evangelista, vice president, Federal Electronics, and author of the new white paper. “When effectively integrated, an outsourcing strategy enables defense contractor companies to expand and contract operations to meet demand without maintaining an expensive infrastructure and at lower cost with shorter development cycle times.

“However, selecting the wrong electronics manufacturing services (EMS) outsourcing partner is a decision fraught with risks – in terms of cost, product quality and delivery, and customer retention,” he said.

Based on 20 years of “witnessing the best and worst of electronic contract manufacturing,” Evangelista has observed seven key principles to ensure the successful outcome of outsourcing contracts. He has codified those principles into a new, free white paper titled “Selecting an Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) Partner for Military/Government Applications: 7 Things You Must Know,” providing strategic discussions offering how-to advice on such issues as:

• Determining the appropriate outsourcing strategy
• Matching business profiles & capabilities
• Addressing product mix
• Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
• New product introductions
• Cost strategies and issues

“For defense contractor companies, the economic benefits of a successful outsourcing strategy are great. But likewise, the stakes are equally as high. Virtually every decision can be a minefield. Don’t take anything for granted,” Evangelista said.

To download the free white paper, “Selecting an Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) Partner for Military/Government Applications: 7 Things You Must Know,”, visit http://www.federalelec.com/militarypaper.

About Federal Electronics
Founded in 1948, Federal Electronics, Inc. is a leading electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider. Based in Cranston, Rhode Island, the company serves the needs of original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and military contractors by providing comprehensive production solutions that lower cycle times, control and reduce costs, and create flexible supply chains that are responsive to volume variability. For more information, visit www.federalelec.com.

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Seven Steps to Selecting the “Right” Meeting and Event Space Website

-Careful Selection Helps Ease Event Planning Done in a Hurry-

Portland, Maine – August 13, 2007 – Choosing the right meeting and event space website when faced with planning business meetings in a hurry can make all the difference to transform a normally disjointed and time-consuming task into a seamless second nature.

For many, the planning of business meetings and events is a rush assignment requiring significant research, hundreds of details, dozens of contacts, countless decisions, less budget than what’s needed – and deadlines bordering on near impossible to achieve.

“Selecting the right meeting and event space website – like the selection of the right tool for any job – is critical,” according to Steve Robertson, Chief Technical Officer at Eventective (www.eventective.com), the web’s most comprehensive meeting and event space resource.

Robertson offered the following criteria as a litmus test check list to use when selecting an online meeting and event planning website:

· Mission Critical Focus –A specialized or all-in-one meeting planning website beats the general search engines by providing research tools that compile venues by geographic location, room size, and venue detail.

· More Data, Diversity – More data, and a wide geographic vision, means more options. Look beyond the typical large metropolitan areas by using a resource offering searches that can be localized to suggest venues in surrounding towns and areas.

· Include the Non-Obvious– Does the website include special interest and non-traditional venues like a resort, ranch or museum that offer a wide range of off-time activities for guests – bringing even more excitement to the event?

· Up-to-Date Data – How often is the data updated? Once a year, once a season, or once a week? Researching outdated data is a waste of time and effort.

· Details, Details – How “deep” is the research? Can the resource offer venue information with detailed data on meeting rooms, amenities, services, and accommodations – as well as pictures and website links, to help visualize the event onsite? This is especially helpful when considering out-of-town venues that can’t be visited beforehand.

· Related Services – Often, additional services, such as catering or entertainment will be required for the event, so information on such related services must also be available, accurate and immediately accessible from the resource.

· Ability to Directly Connect – Short-circuiting the standard, and lengthy, request for proposal (RFP) process is a major time-saver. Choose a portal that provides the option of directly contacting the right individuals at the venues being considered to further speed booking and confirming the space and date.

“The most important factor is to find the online service that best fits your needs. This will enable any planner to work smarter, not harder,” said Robertson.

Eventective (http://www.eventective.com) is the Web's most comprehensive meeting and event space website. With more than 25,000 visitors a day, Eventective is also one of the most popular venue search resources on the Internet. Eventective's listings feature 318,000 event spaces, 95,000 facilities, and 40,000 related service providers throughout the U.S. and include traditional hotel and restaurant-based properties as well as niche and special-interest facilities that are often not presented elsewhere.

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New Studies Show Effectiveness of Reflective Confocal Microscopy

ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, USA – August 7, 2007 – Three important new studies published in leading peer reviewed journals of dermatology have further demonstrated the effectiveness of reflective confocal microscopy (RCM) as a diagnostic tool in dermatology, said Jay Eastman, chairman and CEO of Lucid, Inc (http://www.lucid-tech.com/).

“These findings are quite encouraging, especially as we continue to launch pilots throughout Europe and the United States that are expected to demonstrate the success of RCM in routine private practice use,” he added.

Lucid, an innovative cellular imaging and technology company, is creator of the non-invasive VivaScope® reflective confocal microscope that provides cellular resolution images of skin and the VivaNet™, an Internet-based, DICOM-compliant application that enables the transfer of VivaScope® digital images between practitioners and pathologists for rapid review of confocal images.

The three articles Eastman cited are:

• “Diving into the blue: In vivo microscopic characterization of the dermoscopic blue hue,” in the July 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. The article details a study that sought to identify “the in vivo confocal microscopy correlates of the blue hue for improving diagnostic accuracy for melanoma,” and determined that “confocal microscopy enabled the in vivo identification of characteristic cytological substrates correlated with the blue features in dermoscopy.” The article, by authors: G. Pellacani, S. Bassoli, C. Longo, AM. Cesinaro, S. Seidenari, can be found in Volume 57, pp 96-104, or accessed online at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=17485141.
  
• “In vivo reflectance confocal microscopy of mycosis fungoides: A preliminary study,” in the April 2007 issue of the Journal of American Academy of Dermatology. The study objective “was to evaluate lesions suggestive of MF (mycosis fungoides) using in vivo reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) and to correlate confocal features with histopathologic findings.” Study results found that “…features correlating well to histophathology are observed on RCM of MF lesions.” The article, by authors: AL. Agero, M. Gill, M. Ardigo, P. Myskowski, AC. Halpern, S. Gonzalez, was published online April 13, 2007 and can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17433849&dopt=Citation.
  
• "Preliminary evaluation of in vivo reflectance confocal microscopy features of discoid lupus erythematosus,” in the June 2007 issue of the British Journal of Dermatology. The study intended to “define RCM features of DLE and to evaluate its feasibility in biopsy site selection” and concluded that “RCM… appears to be promising for biopsy site selection.” The article, by authors: M. Ardigo, I. Maliszewski, C. Cota, A. Scope, G. Sacerdoti, S. Gonzalez, E. Berardesca, can be accessed in Volume 156, pp 1196-1203, or online at http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2133.2007.07808.x.

For more information about Lucid and their reflective confocal technologies, visit http://www.lucid-tech.com/ or call 1-585-239-9800.

About Lucid Inc.
Lucid Inc., based in Rochester, New York, USA, is a medical device and information company dedicated to creating innovative cellular imaging technology and using the Internet to securely deliver accurate, real-time VivaScope® cellular resolution images to medical professionals. When coupled with its digital VivaNetTM system, the company’s ability to image in-vivo (living) tissue will aid medical practitioners and pathologists in skin cancer screening with clarity, speed and patient comfort. For more information about Lucid Inc., visit http://www.lucid-tech.com/.

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Lucid to Showcase VivaNetTM Telemedicine Server for Dermatology Applications at AAD Summer Academy Meeting

ROCHESTER, NEW YORK – August 1, 2007 - Lucid, Inc. (http://www.lucid-tech.com/) will showcase its VivaNetTM telemedicine server for dermatology applications at the American Academy of Dermatology’s (AAD) Summer Academy Meeting, August 1-5, 2007.

The VivaNetTM server is intended to link dermatology practitioners using Lucid’s non-invasive VivaScope® confocal imagers with other dermatologists or pathologists via the Internet.

Lucid’s non-invasive VivaScope® confocal microscopes provide cellular resolution images of skin that may be used by a dermatologist to assist in forming a clinical judgment for a variety of skin conditions. The VivaNetTM is an Internet-based, DICOM compliant application that is intended to provide fast, accurate, and secure storage, retrieval and transfer of VivaScope® digital cellular resolution images across the Internet to facilitate professional collaboration and consultation.

During a typical VivaScope® session, both dermatoscopic quality, full color macroscopic pictures and microscopic, cellular resolution images of the patient’s skin are imaged. Once all of the images from a single session are completed, the images and patient related data are transferred for storage to the secure VivaNetTM server and are immediately available for retrieval by and transfer to other authorized practitioners for their review and collaboration.

For more information or to see a live demo of the new VivaNet™ or VivaScope® technology, visit Lucid at the AAD Summer Academy Meeting, in booth #414 in the Hilton New York, August 1-5, 2007.

Or, visit Lucid online at http://www.lucid-tech.com/ or by phone 585-239-9800.

Lucid Inc., based in Rochester, New York, is a medical device and information company dedicated to creating innovative cellular imaging technology and using the Internet to securely deliver accurate, real-time VivaScope® cellular resolution images to medical professionals. The Company’s digital VivaNetTM server, coupled with its ability to image in-vivo (living) tissue is envisioned to ultimately aid medical practitioners and pathologists in screening for skin cancer and other dermatologic conditions with clarity, speed and patient comfort. For more information, visit http://www.lucid-tech.com/.

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Invensys wins automation order from major Chinese contractor for mega power plant project in India

-- 3,600-megawatt generating station one of the largest power plants under construction in India --

FOXBORO, MASSACHUSETTS, USA – June 21, 2007 – Invensys Process Systems (http://ips.invensys.com/) has been selected by Shandong No. 3 Electric Power Construction Corporation (SEPCO III) of China to implement Foxboro (http://www.foxboro.com/) I/A Series distributed control systems (DCS) for a 3,600-megawatt generating station being built in Jharsuguda district, Orissa state, India. The plant is one of the largest power plants under construction in India, and represents a new generation of mega-sized generating plants being built to help meet India’s bourgeoning power demand.

Extensive Invensys experience in the power industry (including a large number of projects in China) and expertise in large-scale projects were important factors in the SEPCO III contract award to Invensys.

The DCS contract will encompass an advanced I/A Series automation infrastructure integrating more than 63,000 I/O points. The systems will be used to control the new plant’s boilers, turbines and generators utilizing Invensys’ Performance Plus coordinated control system (CCS) technology, well-proven in power plants worldwide. Subsystem applications will include data acquisition system (DAS), furnace safety supervisory system (FSSS), boiler and turbine sequence control system (SCS), turbine digital electro-hydraulic (DEH) control system, feed water pump mechanical electro-hydraulic (MEH) control system, and electric control systems (ECS).

In addition to I/A Series automation hardware and software, Invensys Process Systems China will also provide a range of installation services, engineering, training, and field service.

The plant is part of the “Power for All” initiative, an aggressive Indian government plan to sustain economic growth with significant additions of power generation capacity in the next few years. The new power plant project is one of the largest projects for SEPCO III, and comprises China’s largest export machinery and equipment order to India.

About Shandong No. 3 Electric Power Construction Corporation
Shandong No. 3 Electric Power Construction Corporation (SEPCO III) is part of Shandong Electric Power Group Corporation and is a leading power EPC contractor for thermal plants, nuclear plants, gas-fired and hydropower stations. SEPCO III was one of the first Chinese power contractors to enter the global market, and has more than 160 generation units of contract experience in China and around the world, including a range of public power and captive power projects in India. Capable of providing the full range of EPC services from its experienced professional staff, SEPCO III is headquartered in Shandong, China.

About Invensys
Invensys is the world leader in industrial asset performance management, a strategy designed to help today's industrial enterprises to effectively balance the availability and utilization of their production assets to match changing business requirements. In addition to its rapidly expanding Global Solutions and Performance Management services groups, Invensys' automation businesses includes industry-leading brands such as Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, Wonderware, and Avantis, whose products are installed in more than 100,000 plants across the world. These range from small hybrid and batch plants to the world's largest upstream projects, refineries, gas plants, petrochemicals plants, power plants, and pulp and paper mills. For more information on Invensys' process automation businesses, please visit www.invensys.com/ps.
The Invensys Group (www.invensys.com) is headquartered in London and is listed on the London Stock Exchange, with approximately 30,000 employees working in 60 countries.

Invensys, Foxboro, I/A Series, Performance Plus, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, and Avantis are trademarks of Invensys plc, its subsidiaries, or affiliates. All other brand and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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Invensys to implement Operator Training Simulator for Sinclair Refinery in Wyoming

-- Invensys solution to include SimSci-Esscor DYNSIM process simulation and FSIM Plus controls simulation, supporting a variety of operator training functions --

FOXBORO, MASSACHUSETTS, USA – JUNE 5, 2007 – Invensys Process Systems has been awarded a contract from Sinclair Oil Corporation for a SimSci-Esscor Operating Training Simulator (OTS) to be implemented at the Sinclair refinery near Rawlins, Wyoming. Advanced dynamic simulation technology in the new OTS will allow Sinclair’s Wyoming Refinery to train operators on all aspects of plant operations and controls, as well as start-up, shutdown and emergency situation management of the refinery’s newly constructed delayed coker unit.

“Sinclair Wyoming Refinery selected Invensys’ OTS solution based on its ability to integrate easily and be compatible with our existing control system,” said Ed Juno, Operations Manager at Sinclair Wyoming Refining Company.

The Invensys OTS solution will include SimSci-Esscor DYNSIM simulation software for high fidelity process modeling of all plant processes. The OTS will play an important role at the refinery, as the new delayed coker unit is the first such unit installed at the facility. The simulator will help accelerate commissioning of the new unit.

The Sinclair Wyoming Refinery currently employs Foxboro I/A Series distributed control systems (DCS) throughout the facility, and the new software implementation will include the FSIM Plus solution that simulates the Foxboro DCS, facilitating controls checkout and related operator functions. The operations and controls simulation solution is integrated by the SimSci-Esscor SIM4ME common user environment. Invensys will provide a range of professional services in connection with the OTS implementation.

About Sinclair Oil Corporation
Sinclair Oil Corporation is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. Sinclair Oil owns and operates three refineries, two in Wyoming and one in Oklahoma and markets fuels in 21 states, supplying fuel to over 2,600 company- and distributor-operated stations. The Sinclair Refinery near Rawlins, Wyoming, is one of the longest-running industrial plants in the western United States, yet Sinclair maintains it as one of the most modern refineries in the region, producing 60,000 barrels of petroleum products per day.

About Invensys
Invensys is the world leader in industrial asset performance management, a strategy designed to help today’s industrial enterprises to effectively balance the availability and utilization of their production assets to match changing business requirements. In addition to its rapidly expanding Global Solutions and Performance Management services groups, Invensys’ automation businesses includes industry-leading brands such as Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, Wonderware, and Avantis, whose products are installed in more than 100,000 plants across the world. These range from small hybrid and batch plants to the world’s largest upstream projects, refineries, gas plants, petrochemicals plants, power plants, and pulp and paper mills.

The Invensys Group (http://www.invensys.com/) is headquartered in London and is listed on the London Stock Exchange, with approximately 30,000 employees working in 60 countries.

Invensys, SimSci-Esscor, DYNSIM, FSIM Plus, Foxboro, I/A Series, SIM4ME, Triconex, Wonderware, and Avantis are trademarks of Invensys plc, its subsidiaries, or affiliates. All other brands and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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Invensys introduces new wireless-enabled enterprise solutions and expanded implementation and support capabilities

FOXBORO, MASSACHUSETTS, USA – June 6, 2007 – Invensys Process Systems today announced seven new wireless-enabled solutions and expanded global network implementation and support capabilities. These wireless-enabled solutions can be deployed at both the plant and enterprise levels to help improve overall industrial asset performance management.

“Since introducing Invensys’ comprehensive managed network approach to industrial wireless technology back in 2005, we’ve been working closely with our customers to define and implement the specific applications where wireless technology can provide the most value,” commented Hesh Kagan, strategic technology director at Invensys Process Systems. “When doing so, we’ve been careful to consider not just the initial cost-savings and long-term benefits that wireless-enabled solutions can deliver, but also the potentially higher support costs of wireless vs. wired networks, and how these support costs can be minimized through proper up-front engineering and long-term network monitoring and optimization services.”

Invensys’ expanding portfolio of fully engineered and supported wireless-enabled asset performance management solutions is both vendor-independent and standards-agnostic. The following solutions can operate in conjunction with most vendors’ products, systems, or software applications, using the most appropriate wireless standards available:

• Mobile Workforce – provides employees in the field with secure roaming access to real-time control systems, enterprise applications, documents, and other information via wireless hand-held devices and hardened Mil Spec and NEMA 4-rated tablet personal computers
• Field Data Logging – enables personnel to quickly and accurately upload device and equipment status and diagnostic data to maintenance systems from the field
• Condition Monitoring – wireless connection to remote sensors provides incremental measurements (tank levels, temperatures, pH, vibration, etc.) to provide a richer real-time data base to support highly effective model-based predictive maintenance strategies. Integrates with Invensys’ InFusion Condition Manager, Avantis EAM, and third-party computerized maintenance management programs
• Asset Tracking – uses RFID technology to provide accurate identification and location of fixed and rolling assets with optional visualization on a hand-held device. Supports E-pedigree asset tracking for Life Sciences
• Physical Security – provides flexibility to implement any combination of mobile video, fixed surveillance cameras (with or without access controls), intrusion detectors, and proximity sensors as required to cost-effectively extend the reach of physical security throughout a single building, a plant, an entire complex, or even a series of complexes. Establishes a framework for regulatory compliance
• Personnel Safety – provides practical and cost-effective means to accurately identify physical location of personnel in real time, notify first responders of safety shower activation, provide “man-down” notification for emergency services, and remote evacuation alarming. Helps safeguard employees and visitors and ease compliance with regulatory requirements
• Communications – provides secure integration of multiple wireless technologies (including both VoIP and high-speed backhaul communications) to cost-effectively connect people, facilities, and systems. Standards-compliant solution set integrates with existing IT infrastructure and systems

Invensys wireless-enabled applications are in various stages of implementation at customer plants around the world. This includes a large chemical complex on the US Gulf Coast, petroleum refineries in the US and Europe, and several US power plants. Invensys is also building wireless solution implementation capabilities for offshore production platforms and large scale mining operations.

Invensys’ rapidly expanding Enterprise Networking and Security Practice includes highly experienced IT and automation professionals based around the world and utilizes a proven Assess/Design/Implement/Manage lifecycle methodology to deliver consistent, measurable results for all performance services.

“While wireless networking technology offers tremendous potential for providing incremental performance improvements in today’s industrial enterprises, it clearly is not for the faint of heart,” said Cory Welch, Practice Director, Enterprise Network and Security Services at Invensys Process Systems. “Not only must users deal with the issues of incomplete and conflicting wireless standards, multiple - and not necessarily interoperable - vendor products, proprietary protocols, and both reliability and security issues, they also have to deal with the fact that the appropriate expertise is not always available in depth within their own organizations. It’s precisely for this reason that Invensys has been working so hard to build up our global Enterprise Networking and Security Services practice to be able to supplement our customers’ IT and automation resources with world-class value added services expertise. Today, I can say without hesitation that Invensys is in an excellent position to help our customers identify, implement, and support our new wireless-enabled and other enterprise networking solutions anywhere in the world.”

For more information on Invensys wireless-enabled solutions, readers should visit http://ips.invensys.com/wireless or contact the Invensys Customer Satisfaction Center toll-free at 866-746-6477 (508-549-4834 outside the US and Canada).

About Invensys
Invensys is the world leader in industrial asset performance management, a strategy designed to help today's industrial enterprises to effectively balance the availability and utilization of their production assets to match changing business requirements. In addition to its rapidly expanding Global Solutions and Performance Management services groups, Invensys' automation businesses includes industry-leading brands such as Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, Wonderware, and Avantis, whose products are installed in more than 100,000 plants across the world. These range from small hybrid and batch plants to the world's largest upstream projects, refineries, gas plants, petrochemicals plants, power plants, and pulp and paper mills.

The Invensys Group (http://www.invensys.com/) is headquartered in London and is listed on the London Stock Exchange, with approximately 30,000 employees working in 60 countries.

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Foxboro announces HART-enabled I/A Series plug-in migration solution for TDC 2000 control systems

-- Honeywell TDC 2000 system users can now upgrade to advanced Invensys automation technology – including full HART support – without touching their existing field wiring --

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS USA (Foxboro User Group Conference) – July 16, 2007 – The Foxboro Automation (http://www.foxboro.com/) unit of Invensys Process Systems, today announced that it has extended its popular family of “plug in” DCS migration modules with a new generation of Honeywell migration products. These new modules enable Honeywell users to upgrade their aging TDC 2000 systems to the latest I/A Series automation technology and modern HART field communications without having to replace existing field wiring, termination assemblies, system enclosures, or power supplies.

The new I/A Series migration modules are an exact physical replacement for the existing TDC 2000 input/output (I/O) modules and plug right into the existing system enclosures with no I/O mapping issues. This migration approach is more cost-effective than a complete system replacement and – with careful upfront planning – reduces associated process downtime from weeks or even months, to a day or less. This can dramatically minimize lost production.

“In addition to providing a well-proven approach for upgrading obsolete control systems to the latest I/A Series process control, HMI, asset management, and real-time information capabilities and our award-winning mesh control network backbone, our new plug-in migration modules for TDC 2000 systems provide additional new functionality through support for both conventional 4 to 20 mA and HART digital field communications. This provides users with the option to selectively upgrade their field instrumentation to the latest HART devices at any time,” said Betty Naylor-McDevitt, marketing director of the Foxboro Automation unit of Invensys Process Systems.

According to Rod Wetsch, Project Manager at the Dakota Gasification Great Plains Synfuels Plant located in Beulah, North Dakota, which is well along in a five-year modernization program under which the legacy Honeywell and Bailey control systems are being gradually migrated to advanced I/A Series automation technology, “The Foxboro plug-in migration modules saved us an enormous number of man hours and minimized our downtime. The new HART functionality is important to us because we can now pull all the information from our HART field devices into our plantwide I/A Series control system for diagnostics and maintenance, something that was not possible with our old systems.”

Using this well-proven plug in migration approach, Invensys has already helped more than 500 customers around the world upgrade their legacy Honeywell TDC2000 and TDC3000, Bailey NET 90 and INFI 90, Fisher PROVOX S10 and S20, Westinghouse WDPF, Siemens Moore APACS, and Foxboro SPECTRUM and SPEC 200 systems to advanced Foxboro I/A Series technology.

For more information on the new I/A Series plug in migration modules for Honeywell TDC or other legacy systems, readers can contact their local Foxboro Automation representative, call the Invensys Customer Satisfaction Center toll-free at 866-746-6477 (508-549-2424 outside the U.S. and Canada), or visit www.foxboro.com/migration.

About Invensys
Invensys is the world leader in industrial asset performance management, a strategy designed to help today's industrial enterprises to effectively balance the availability and utilization of their production assets to match changing business requirements. In addition to its rapidly expanding Global Solutions and Performance Management services groups, Invensys' automation businesses includes industry-leading brands such as Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, Wonderware, and Avantis, whose products are installed in more than 100,000 plants across the world. These range from small hybrid and batch plants to the world's largest upstream projects, refineries, gas plants, petrochemicals plants, power plants, and pulp and paper mills.

The Invensys Group (http://www.invensys.com/) is headquartered in London and is listed on the London Stock Exchange, with approximately 30,000 employees working in 60 countries.

Invensys, I/A Series, Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, Wonderware, and Avantis are trademarks of Invensys plc, its subsidiaries, or affiliates. All other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

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BASF FINA LP to implement Invensys Operator Training Simulator

Advanced SimSci-Esscor dynamic simulation technology will enable BFLP to train operators on all aspects of plant operations

FOXBORO, MASSACHUSETTS, USA – June 11, 2007 – Invensys Process Systems has been awarded a contract to provide a SimSci-Esscor Operating Training Simulator (OTS) for the BASF FINA Petrochemicals LP Olefins Plant in Port Arthur, Texas. The Invensys OTS solution will include DYNSIM simulation software for high fidelity process modeling, FSIM Plus software for simulation of the Foxboro I/A Series distributed control system (DCS), and TRISIM Plus software for simulation of the Triconex safety integrated system (SIS). The solution is integrated by SimSci-Esscor’s SIM4ME common user environment.

BASF FINA Petrochemicals operates one of the largest steam crackers of its type in the world, turning naphtha and light hydrocarbons into ethylene, propylene, and other chemical raw materials. The SimSci-Esscor OTS will allow BASF FINA Petrochemicals to train operators on all aspects of plant operations, including normal operation, start-up, shutdown and possible upset situations in the manufacturing process.

“We selected Invensys based on its superior integrated graphical modeling environment and compatibility with our existing control systems, said Mike McAtee, General Manager of BASF FINA Petrochemical’s Port Arthur site.

About BASF FINA Petrochemicals
BASF FINA Petrochemicals LP is a 60-40 joint venture between BASF Corporation of Florham Park, N.J., and Total Petrochemicals USA Inc, of Houston, Texas. BASF Corporation is the North American subsidiary of BASF AG, the world’s largest chemical company, and Total Petrochemicals USA Inc, a subsidiary of France-based Total, one of the world's leading oil companies.

About Invensys
Invensys is the world leader in industrial asset performance management, a strategy designed to help today's industrial enterprises to effectively balance the availability and utilization of their production assets to match changing business requirements. In addition to its rapidly expanding Global Solutions and Performance Management services groups, Invensys' automation businesses includes industry-leading brands such as Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, Wonderware, and Avantis, whose products are installed in more than 100,000 plants across the world. These range from small hybrid and batch plants to the world's largest upstream projects, refineries, gas plants, petrochemicals plants, power plants, and pulp and paper mills.

The Invensys Group (http://www.invensys.com/) is headquartered in London and is listed on the London Stock Exchange, with approximately 30,000 employees working in 60 countries.

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Federal Electronics Honored with Raytheon 2007 Supplier Excellence Award

CRANSTON, R.I. – August 2, 2007 – Federal Electronics (http://www.federalelec.com/), a leading provider of electronic manufacturing services (EMS), has been selected as a recipient of the 2007 Supplier Excellence 3 Star Award from Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS).

Federal Electronics, a supplier to Raytheon IDS for the past 6 years, was honored with the award for the company’s exemplary performance and contribution to the success of Raytheon IDS and its customers.

Federal Electronics Vice President Ed Evangelista and Account Manager Chris Heywood were presented with the award in a ceremony at Raytheon IDS in Tewksbury, Mass.

“We are honored to have been selected by Raytheon IDS for this prestigious award,” said Evangelista, “The men and women of the armed forces expect the products we produce to work flawlessly the first time and every time in critical and dangerous missions. We are proud to be a part of the Raytheon supply chain, and this award is a testament to the hard work and dedication of our employees. We look forward to continuing our work with Raytheon in the coming years as we remain committed to Mission Assurance.”

Raytheon IDS is a leader in Joint Battlespace Integration and provides solutions to organizations including the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, the U.S. Armed Forces, and the Department of Homeland Security.

Based in Cranston, Rhode Island, Federal Electronics is a vertically integrated EMS provider of printed circuit boards, copper interconnect assemblies, fiber optic interconnect assemblies, and functionally tested, higher level/system level assemblies.

For more information on Federal Electronics and their EMS capabilities, visit http://www.federalelec.com/ or contact Ed Evangelista by email: ed_evangelista@federalelec.com or phone: 401-944-6200.

About Federal Electronics
Founded in 1948, Federal Electronics, Inc. is a leading electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider. Based in Cranston, Rhode Island, the company serves the needs of original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and military contractors by providing comprehensive production solutions that lower cycle times, control and reduce costs, and create flexible supply chains that are responsive to volume variability. For more information, visit http://www.federalelec.com/.

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