Westone Products Implemented Global Factory's Extended-enterprise Management System for...

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SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2002

Westone Products Ltd has successfully implemented the GO! Application

Suite for real-time collaboration with their supply chain partners

Global Factory, Inc., a provider

of cross-enterprise eXtended Relationship Management (XRM) system for manufacturers, today announced the successful implementation of GO! Application Suite for Westone Products Ltd, (UK), a manufacturer of dental products. Global Factory's web-based system allows Westone to efficiently manage their production operations and control the quality in their floss thread manufacturing facility. Westone employs Global Factory's extended manufacturing management system to control their products at various process stages, record quality test data to help analyze performance in different production areas, and thus identify problems at an early stage and provide for better inventory management.

"The concept behind Global Factory's system is so straight forward and comprehensive that it allows its use for any application the user wishes to implement within it," said Jack Blass, Managing Director at Westone Products. "A major feature for Westone is the ability to make it 'idiot proof' to the extent that human error in using any of the applications so developed can be eliminated."

"Global Factory's application suite is suitable for executing both internal and external collaboration, serving as a comprehensive solution for managing partner relationships as well as in-house operations," said Tamir Ilan, VP Services at Global Factory. "Westone successfully implemented our solution without requiring extensive IT resources. They took the advantage of the system's ease-of-use and its ability to be dynamically configured without programming. We are delighted to expand our relationship for future implementations in their new facility."

About Global Factory

Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and founded in 1999, Global Factory provides a cross-enterprise, eXtended Relationship Management (XRM) system for manufacturers. The company's patented software solution extends operations management across collaborative manufacturing networks, providing real-time visibility and control throughout the supply and demand chain, including project management, quality control, inventory management, demand aggregation and product delivery.

The web-based GO! Global Orchestrator(TM) Application Suite improves operational efficiencies with a direct effect on the bottom line, at a fraction of the implementation cost and time of typical solutions. Its proprietary architecture dubbed "Dynamic Objects based Publish & Subscribe" allows business users to configure and modify the underlying business processes, data-links, event management and analytics, without requiring IT expertise. http://www.globalfactory.net