EMERSON SELECTS CIMMETRY'S AUTOVUE SYSTEM TO PROVIDE EASY ACCESS, SHARING OF ENGINEERING INFORMATION

Corporate Visualization Solution Will Help Bring Products to Market Faster

July 23, 2002

Cimmetry Systems Inc., the leader in visualization and collaboration solutions, today announced that Emerson (NYSE: EMR) has selected the AutoVue System as an enterprise-wide standard for reading and redlining engineering documents built on disparate software platforms.

Emerson, a $15.5 billion leader in technology and engineering products and services, has 60-plus divisions, 120,000 employees, and operates 380 manufacturing locations around the world. Cimmetry's AutoVue System, which is compatible with more than 200 software packages, will allow Emerson to share engineering-related documents internally-as well as with customers and suppliers-faster and less expensively.

"After thorough review, we found Cimmetry's technology to be sophisticated, versatile, and scalable," said Randall Ledford, Emerson Chief Technology Officer. "AutoVue will enable us to bring our products to market faster-better using technology to share more information about our engineering projects with more stakeholders throughout the entire development process. The system will foster collaboration and help us realize more efficiencies."

Cimmetry agrees that the Emerson partnership will be mutually beneficial: "Emerson chose to form a global relationship with us based on our technology and our reputation of standing behind our products," said John Rogers, Senior Technical Officer at Cimmetry. "We couldn't be more pleased."

Emerson stakeholders will be able to view and mark-up 3D CAD parts and assemblies, 2D CAD drawings, EDA layouts and schematics, scanned and raster documents, vector files, office documents and graphics. Formats supported include Solid Edge, Unigraphics, CATIA, Pro/E, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, MicroStation, HPGL, Gerber, Microsoft Office, Visio, PDF, TIFF, and hundreds more.

About Emerson

St. Louis-based Emerson is a global leader in bringing technology and engineering together to provide innovative solutions to customers in process control; electronics and telecommunications; industrial automation; heating, ventilating and air conditioning; and appliance and tools. Sales in fiscal 2001 were $15.5 billion.

About Cimmetry

Cimmetry Systems Inc. is the recognized technology pioneer and market leader in the area of Visualization and Collaboration software tools for the A/E/C, Engineering, Manufacturing and Electronics markets.

Cimmetry's flagship product, AutoVue is the premier enterprise-wide viewing and markup package, providing native support for more than 200 document formats including 2D / 3D CAD, EDA, raster, vector, hybrid, office and graphics. Users have a single point of access to their documents, regardless of format, from a single, easy-to-use interface.

AutoVue is Available as a Windows desktop application as well as a server-based thin-client version. Cimmetry's viewing and markup products are strategically designed to integrate seamlessly with Document Management (DM, EDM), Workflow, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Data Management (PDM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), ASPs and e-business Portals, either directly or via the Web.

AutoVue is sold worldwide and available in many languages including English, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Russian. Visit Cimmetry on the Web at www.cimmetry.com