GE Wins Four Innovation Awards for CIMPLICITY^® Software
From Leading Automation Publications

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - October 4, 2002-  GE Fanuc Automation, an affiliate of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), has won four innovation awards for its CIMPLICITY^® collaborative production management software from the well-respected industry trade publications Control Engineering, Instrumentation & Automation News (IAN), and Plant Engineering. GE Fanuc won a Control Engineering Editors' Choice Award for CIMPLICITY HMI Plant Edition and IAN Editorial Excellence Awards for CIMPLICITY Machine Edition and the overall CIMPLICITY Collaborative Production Management software suite. Plant Engineering has named the CIMPLICITY Collaborative Production Management software suite as a Finalist for its Product of the Year Award.

"We are proud that these prestigious industry publications have recognized the extensive capabilities of CIMPLICITY and the productivity and cost reduction benefits that this software provides to manufacturers," said Charlene Begley, president and CEO of GE Fanuc Automation. "CIMPLICITY is an integral component of GE's automation solutions, and future additions to this popular software suite will continue to anticipate and address collaborative manufacturing and management needs."

Celebrating its 50th year in print, IAN, www.ianmag.com, is a leading trade publication that reaches designers, specifiers and users of process and industrial controls, instrumentation, equipment, systems and manufacturing software. Control Engineering, www.controleng.com, has covered the $130 billion worldwide control, instrumentation and automation systems worldwide since 1980. Since its first issue in 1947, Plant Engineering, www.plantengineering.com, has stood as the leading problem-solving information source for America's industrial plant engineers. It has won virtually every readership study in its field over the past 20 years and well over 100 studies in all. 
CIMPLICITY software from GE Fanuc provides the software foundation that, in combination with domain experience and Six Sigma methodologies, can aggregate, deliver and facilitate dynamic business decision-making within the entire manufacturing environment and can be extended to manufacturers' suppliers and customers. The CIMPLICITY CPM software suite is based on 10 years of GE Fanuc development, integration and experience, culminating in a new architecture with powerful collaborative production management capabilities. Functionality includes: machine programming and visualization, manufacturing execution systems, supply chain optimization and collaboration, quality management, remote monitoring and diagnostics, enterprise asset management, business intelligence, and regulatory compliance documentation.

About GE Fanuc Automation
GE Fanuc Automation North America, Inc., is a leading global supplier of automation solutions and is a joint venture between GE and FANUC, LTD of Japan. GE Fanuc products and services include CIMPLICITY® collaborative production management software, nano to high-end PLCs, a wide range of CNCs, motion control, operator interfaces, industrial computers, critical control and safety systems, lasers, and a wide range of integration and customer support services. Headquartered in Charlottesville, Va., GE Fanuc is part of GE Industrial Systems. For more information, visit www.gefanuc.com. 

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