BOSTON -- December 2, 2002 -- Teradyne's [NYSE: TER] Assembly Test Division, a global leader in electronics testing and production solutions, today announced the release and immediate availability of Teradyne SCE™ 3.0, the industry's leading collaborative manufacturing execution software. Teradyne SCE™ 3.0 breaks down the barriers between suppliers, manufacturers, and customers, providing greater manufacturing control through process visibility and product traceability.

The new version of Teradyne SCE features a significantly enhanced capability to link global OEMs and EMS providers, to accelerate new products to market and reduce manufacturing costs. It provides complete shop-floor visibility and traceability throughout the entire manufacturing process, and is flexible enough to effectively address the requirements of individual unit-level production control required to support today’s complex, highly engineered products in high-tech, aerospace and defense, and automotive industries.

The principal upgrades included in Teradyne SCE 3.0 include:

• Flexible Demand Fulfillment (FDF)– maintains complete product genealogy as products are built across multiple plants, and allows effortless transfers of production from one site to another, to cost effectively meet demand, and speed new product ramp-to-volume.
• Build-To-Order (BTO)/Configure-to-Order (CTO) manufacturing mode support - enables mass customization and lean manufacturing initiatives to reduce inventory and respond to changing market needs.
• Visual Router –creates graphical workflow of complex assembly, inspection and test process steps, greatly reducing the time and effort to introduce new products into manufacturing.
• Operational Data Store (ODS) - provides a single, real-time view of global key performance indicators (KPI’s), significantly improving decision-making speed and ability.
• Labor tracking – electronic time cards provide consistent and accurate collection and processing of time and attendance information.
• Defects Per Million Opportunities (DPMO) reporting - reduces process variation to achieve consistently high quality levels.

“Today’s collaborative manufacturing systems must provide real-time visibility and business process control across distributed manufacturing facilities, share real-time production data with major suppliers and business partners, and provide customers with real-time manufacturing information visibility as needed,” said Greg Gorbach, Director of Collaborative Manufacturing Research at the ARC Advisory Group. “In addition to these crucial functions, it is imperative that they provide for centrally managed manufacturing processes that may be distributed among physically remote plants. The new release of Teradyne SCE significantly increases its capabilities to address the needs of manufacturers managing multiple production facilities and operating in a complex value network.”

“Teradyne SCE 3.0 provides manufacturers with the capability to substantially improve the efficiency of critical manufacturing execution and enterprise quality processes, reducing cost of goods sold and improving profitability,” said Carl McCauley, operations manager of Teradyne’s manufacturing software group. “Manufacturers adopting SCE will gain significant competitive advantages by being able to meet requirements that their customers are demanding in today’s market. In addition, because new product introduction is the lifeblood of any manufacturing company, Teradyne SCE enables manufacturers to quickly transfer products from design into volume manufacturing anywhere in the world, ensuring industry and government regulatory compliance and high product quality.”

About Teradyne SCE

Teradyne SCE software is a collaborative manufacturing execution system used to reduce costs and accelerate products to market by optimizing distributed manufacturing. It enables manufacturers to automatically correlate real-time in-process manufacturing information with work-in-progress and product genealogy data, providing complete product and process traceability to support government and other regulatory requirements. Teradyne SCE accelerates the new product introduction process for lean production environments, including build-to-order, configure-to-order, and engineer-to-order manufacturing operations.

About Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Architecture

Teradyne SCE™ integrates easily with other factory and corporate information systems by using industry standard XML interfaces to provide the lowest total cost of ownership through a 100 percent browser-based thin-client and a high performance J2EE application server, providing unparalleled modularity, performance, and scalability.

About Teradyne

Teradyne (NYSE: TER) is the world’s largest supplier of automatic test equipment and is also a leading supplier of high performance interconnection systems. Teradyne’s test products are used by manufacturers of semiconductors, circuit assemblies, voice and broadband telephone networks. Teradyne’s backplane assemblies and high-density connectors are used by manufacturers of communications and computing systems central to building networking infrastructure. The company had sales of $1.4 billion in 2001 and currently employs about 8000 people worldwide. For more information, visit www.teradyne.com.

CONTACT:
Mark Stygles
Teradyne Marketing Communications, North America
Westford, MA USA 01886-0033
Tel: 978.589.7425
mark.stygles@teradyne.com
or
Renate Fritz
Marketing Communications, Europe & Asia
Teradyne GmbH, Assembly Test Division
Tel: 49.89.962.85.303
Ismaning, Germany
renate.fritz@teradyne.com