FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH – February 25, 1998 - Cimetrix, Incorporated of Salt Lake City, Utah, announces it has joined the Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Board Assembly Research (CBAR) and will supply GEM Manager software for use in developing automated procedures for improving yields in SMT lines.

GEM (Generic Model for Communications and Control of SEMI Equipment) is a standard developed in the semiconductor industry to facilitate a common method for exchanging data between equipment on the plant floor and the host level computer systems. GEM is now being adopted by major SMT end users such as Motorola, Delco Electronics, Lucent Technologies and others to easily gather and analyze data from SMT equipment. This allows end users to track important trends such as placement accuracy, machine cycle times and line throughput.

The CBAR program is part of Georgia Tech’s Manufacturing Research Center (MARC), which is presently using SMT equipment from Siemens, MPM, CyberOptics, and MVT. The Cimetrix GEM Manager software will allow the exchange of data between these machines and the host computer system. Georgia Tech will be working to extend the use of GEM from a robust tool for line monitoring purposes to one that will allow dynamic setting of process equipment parameters based on in-line post process measurements using the GEM standard. This should provide a dramatic increase in yields.

According to Dr. Ed Kamen, associate director, MARC, "The excellent cooperation we are receiving from leading companies in the SMT industry shows the current interest and future promise of using GEM to improve throughput and yield on SMT lines. The Cimetrix software products allow us to quickly set up our GEM interface so we can concentrate on our research."

Dave Faulkner, executive vice president of marketing for Cimetrix, stated, "The work that Georgia Tech is doing is great for the SMT industry. Users can gain benefits from GEM technologies today, and know that in the future, leading research institutions like Georgia Tech will enhance these benefits with advanced correlation and closed loop control. We are proud to be part of this venture between industry and one of the leading academic institutions in the field of engineering."

Cimetrix has introduced two products as part of its GEM Manager product line: GEM Equipment Manager and GEM Host Manager. GEM Equipment Manager runs on the actual equipment and allows equipment suppliers to quickly enable their equipment to conform to GEM standards without dealing with difficult SECS II messaging. GEM Host Manager runs on a factory level host computer and allows end users to easily connect GEM enabled equipment and start analyzing data in a few hours. Both products run on Windows NT and various versions of UNIX.

Cimetrix is a publicly traded software products company (CMXX) with its CODE product family for PC-based open architecture control, and its GEM Manager product family for deploying equipment conforming to the GEM communications standard. Cimetrix is building alliances with industry leaders in the fields of SMT/electronics assembly, robotics, machine tools, and custom mechanisms. To find out more about Cimetrix and its open architecture products, call 801-256-6500 or find us on the Internet at www.cimetrix.com.

Contact:

David P. Faulkner
Cimetrix Incorporated
Executive Vice President of Marketing
Phone: (801) 256-6500
Fax: (801) 256-6510

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David Faulkner
Cimetrix Incorporated
Phone: (801) 256-6500
Fax: (801) 256-6510
faulkner@cimetrix.com