Intellution Makes Strategic Investments in German

Operations/ Walter Immler Appointed Managing Director forIntellution GmbH Norwood, Mass. (PROTEXT) - Intellution(R), Inc., a worldwideleader in industrial automation, today announced Germany as astrategic focal point for Intellution to increase European andglobal market share. In order to maximize its global marketleadership in industries such as the automotive, machine tooling,specialty chemical, food and beverage and original equipmentmanufacturing, Intellution hired Walter Immler, an experiencedleader in industrial automation, to manage its German operations. "We are putting a major emphasis on German operations withaggressive plans to build a strong infrastructure and growrevenue at much higher rates than ever before," said Steve Rubin,president and CEO at Intellution, Inc. "Intellution recognizesGermany as a strategic market in Europe and our intent is tocapitalize on our German successes within other parts of Europe." As part of the new German operations program, Intellutionappointed Walter Immler as Managing Director for IntellutionGmbh. Immler, who holds a degree as Dipl.Ing. (MSEE) from MunichUniversity, as well as a Dr.Ing. (Ph.D), has held key positionsin several market-leading industrial automation companies duringhis career. Immler worked at Intel and at Siemens until 1982, atwhich time he joined Modicon Industrial Engineering. He becameManaging Director of Modicon's German subsidiary, and later wasresponsible for its European sales and marketing channel. In1990, Immler founded Integrated Control Technology (ICT), whichspecializes in industrial automation solutions. Immler willdevote full-time attention to Intellution Gmbh, with focus ongaining market share. "Walter's expertise and extended track record in industrialautomation is strategic to the success of Intellution gainingmarket share in Germany," said Gary Wilson, senior vicepresident, worldwide sales for Intellution, Inc. "With theaddition of Walter, and the market acceptance of IntellutionDynamics in the German marketplace, we look forward tosignificant gains there in the near future." About Intellution: Founded in 1980, Norwood, Mass.-based Intellution(R) is theleading supplier of industrial automation software, with morethan 100,000 installations worldwide. Intellution provides anindustry-standard software platform that collects, distributes,controls and manages information from the plant floor throughoutthe enterprise, supplying customers with scalable solutions thatdeliver increased productivity and return on investment (ROI).Intellution Dynamics(TM) is a family of products that offersautomation software components including control, entry-levelhuman-machine interfaces, supervisory control and dataacquisition and batch, as well as a full Internet browser-baseddata display and "push" technology. Intellution partners withleading OEMs, systems integrators and third-party softwareproviders. Intellution software is represented in over 48countries and is available in 14 languages. For more information visit http://www.intellution.com Intellution and FIX are registered trademarks and IntellutionDynamics, is a trademark of Intellution Inc. All other brand orproduct names are trademarks and registered trademarks of theirrespective holders. ots Original Text Service: Intellution, Inc.Internet: http://www.newsaktuell.de CONTACT: Michelle Tegtman,Manager, Public Relations of Intellution, Inc. Tel.: (in theUSA) 630-548-1048, mtegtman@intellution.com or Alison Barth,Account Supervisor of The Horn Group Inc., Tel.: (in the USA)781-794-9933, abarth@horngroup.com

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