Datasweep Demonstrates Continued Momentum in Medical Device Manufacturing Market.

Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 2003

Global Manufacturers Choose Datasweep's Performance

Management Solutions to Drive Predictable Quality

and Ensure Regulatory Compliance

Datasweep, Inc., the leader in operations performance management solutions for manufacturers, today announced growing momentum in customer wins and implementations at medical device manufacturing companies. The Datasweep(R) Advantage(TM) suite is in use today at global medical device manufacturers such as Ethicon, GE Medical Systems IT, Intuitive Surgical, Lifescan Inc. and other Johnson & Johnson Companies, Molecular Devices, Oncology Care Systems Group of Siemens Medical Solutions USA, and SonoSite. St. Jude Medical CRMD recently selected Datasweep for a global solution for manufacturing. These companies selected Datasweep to improve process efficiencies, reduce product lifecycle costs, drive predictable quality and ensure regulatory compliance.

Medical device manufacturers face challenges such as intense competition and regulatory scrutiny, making it difficult to maintain high product quality and low costs while simultaneously satisfying FDA requirements. To successfully compete in this environment, companies have chosen Datasweep to reduce variability in manufacturing and service, improve operational efficiency and enforce compliancy, while reducing the cost of quality and improving visibility and decision making across the product lifecycle.

"SonoSite's challenge was to reduce overhead costs and time while creating the ability to address FDA compliancy regulations and improve quality," said Brad Garrett, SonoSite's chief customer fulfillment officer. "We use the Datasweep Advantage suite today to reduce cost and cycle times and to centralize our critical production, quality and repair data. We now have the visibility across product manufacturing to improve our processes and yield, which directly helps us address business objectives and achieve continuous quality."

"Datasweep's Advantage suite provides the unit-level tracking, web-based architecture and data analysis capabilities that are critical to our business," said Steve Lucchesi, director of Information Services, Intuitive Surgical. "Datasweep's flexible and comprehensive solutions minimize non-compliance issues by providing us with electronic device history records and signatures that meet Part 11 guidelines."

"Datasweep recognized four years ago that the medical device market would have to address specific requirements to stay competitive and yet still remain compliant," said Vladimir Preysman, president and CEO of Datasweep. "Building on our market-leading integrated manufacturing and analytics solution, we now provide medical device manufacturers with end-to-end operations control and compliancy, while ensuring traceability, process management and closed-loop corrective actions that deliver consistent and predictable quality."

About Datasweep

Datasweep is the leader in operations performance management solutions for manufacturers. Datasweep solutions uniquely enable global manufacturers to collect, aggregate, analyze and act on product and operational data from the entire product lifecycle and supply chain, improving process efficiencies and product quality, reducing product lifecycle costs and ensuring regulatory compliance. Datasweep customers are achieving fast time-to-benefit and lower cost of ownership, deploying in as few as eight weeks. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Datasweep serves customers in high-tech, life sciences, automotive, telecommunications and other industries, including Flextronics International, Ltd. (FLEX), General Electric (GE), Harris Corporation (HRS), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), KLA-Tencor Corporation (KLAC), Lucent (LU), Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.(SI) and SonoSite (SONO). Additional information can be found on the Internet at www.datasweep.com.

Note to Editors: Datasweep is a registered trademark of Datasweep, Inc. Advantage and CAPA are trademarks of Datasweep, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.