According to David Royal, Sikorsky CAPP Project Manager, “The Solumina CAPP implementation is part of Sikorsky’s Digital Engineering initiative, which over the next three years will focus on engineering process improvement, infrastructure enhancement, and strategic digital tool insertion. The Solumina CAPP project is an important first step towards bridging the information gap between engineering design and manufacturing. Solumina CAPP will leverage the benefits of the Digital Engineering initiative and enable multimedia authoring of manufacturing work instructions. It will be integrated into engineering, tooling and MRP systems to provide increased access to critical process and manufacturing data. Solumina CAPP will provide the foundation for 3D data usage throughout the design to build process. It also allows for web-enabled collaboration between suppliers, partners, customers and other United Technologies manufacturing facilities”. The implementation team consists of Sikorsky, iBASEt and IBM and initial deployment is scheduled for 2003.

iBASEt’s Vice President of Sales, Michel Gadbois, stated, “We are looking forward to working with Sikorsky to achieve their goal. This implementation of Solumina’s 3rd Generation CAPP tool will enable Sikorsky to author Graphic Centric work instructions and adapt to diverse generations of legacy data while taking full advantage of latest Solid Model technologies.”

About Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation of Hartford, Conn. (NYSE: UTX ), is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of advanced helicopters for commercial, industrial and military uses. United Technologies Corporation provides high technology products to the aerospace and building systems industries throughout the world and it’s subsidiaries include: Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, Carrier heating and air-conditioning systems, Otis elevators and escalators, Hamilton Sundstrand aerospace and industrial systems and UTC Fuel Cells.

About iBASEt

iBASEt, founded in 1986 as TSI, is a leading provider of high-tech software solutions and services. iBASEt pioneered the first client server image-based work instruction delivery and data capture system in the complex assembly, aerospace and defense markets. iBASEt’s Solumina Enterprise Execution solution is targeted at Manufacturing Planning, Plant Floor Execution and Quality Management and provides a paperless connection between product engineering, ERP and the plant floor. Users report Solumina has significantly improved productivity, throughput, and provided cost savings in the millions of dollars per year. Solumina customers include industry leaders like The Boeing Company, General Dynamics, BWX Technologies, TRW and United Technologies.

iBASEt contact: Vic Sial, President (949) 598-5200 or [email protected].

iBASEt Marketing contact: Conrad Leiva (949) 598-5200 or [email protected].