Camstar to Optimize High-Volume Manufacturing Productivity for Lexmark; Camstar's InSite Provides Real-Time Quality Management to Drive Down Manufacturing Costs.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 2004

Camstar, a leader in enterprise manufacturing performance management systems, today announced that Lexmark International, Inc. will deploy the Camstar solution across its enterprise to manage high production volumes and further drive down the cost of manufacturing for its printing solutions.

Lexmark selected Camstar to help create a real-time manufacturing environment capable of handling millions of transactions each day. By integrating Camstar's InSite(TM) solution with automated high-speed vision bar code systems, Lexmark captures and manages live production data from every process and transaction taking place throughout its plants. Plant managers can quickly react to quality issues as they happen, and the increased information flow highlights abnormal situations and alerts managers to potential problems with products or processes.

"We chose Camstar to meet our rigorous manufacturing requirements. Camstar's ability to work with the Lexmark team and successfully deliver on our initial deployment phase ensured us that the project expansion would run smoothly," said Najib Bahous, Lexmark vice president and president of its Consumer Printing Division. "By providing enterprise integration to our business processes we can ensure the highest levels of quality across all our manufacturing facilities even while lowering our overall cost of production."

As part of the initial project, Camstar's solutions team worked closely with Lexmark's internal resources to create self-sufficient implementation teams and to ensure a smooth transition for future technology. As a result, Lexmark has the flexibility to implement the new planned rollouts on its own time schedule completely using internal resources.

About Camstar Systems, Inc.

Camstar is a leading provider of enterprise manufacturing performance management systems for life sciences, semiconductor, electronics, and other global industrial manufacturers. Camstar's InSite(TM) product manages, monitors, and synchronizes manufacturing activities across globally distributed plants and integrates them in real-time with core business processes. The system enables customers to respond rapidly to changing demand, optimize the use of production assets, and quickly ramp the production of new products. More than 100 leading companies, including IBM, Corning, Kodak, Hitachi, Nortel, ZOLL Medical, and Zeiss Meditec rely on Camstar as a trusted software partner. For more information, visit www.camstar.com.