4/8/2002 6:36:00 AM
PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–April 8, 2002–
Companies will demonstrate powerful productivity solution for aviation maintenance featuring Nomad Personal Display at MRO 2002 in Phoenix.
Microvision (Nasdaq:MVIS) announced today that it has signed a
co-marketing agreement with CORENA USA, Inc., a subsidiary of Danish
software company Corena Danmark A/S.
CORENA USA, Inc. is a Systems Integrator and Solutions Provider,
specializing in Technical Document Management solutions as well as
Maintenance & Engineering solutions primarily for the aerospace
industry.
The two companies will collaborate on solutions that combine
CORENA’s family of powerful software and systems tools with
Microvision’s unique Nomad Personal Display System. They will
demonstrate examples to prospective customers at Aviation Week’s MRO
2002 conference at the Phoenix Civic Plaza and Convention Center this
week.
Frontline workers such as aviation technicians and mechanics can
wear the Nomad Personal Display System to view CORENA’s Windows-based
Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETM) in a see-through
high-resolution display, in any ambient lighting condition, including
the bright sunlight often encountered on the flight line. The mechanic
is freed from paper manuals or computer kiosks and can refer to the
IETM at the “point of task” to improve productivity, quality and
safety in aircraft and engine maintenance, repair, and overhaul.
CORENA has worked with production of technical manuals since 1992
and provides products and solutions to many of the world’s leading
aerospace companies and aviation maintainers who publish, manage and
use structured content to enhance their business. Their largest
customer is Boeing who uses their software to produce Wiring Diagram
Manuals & System Schematics Manuals for all Boeing 737, 747, 757, 767
and 777 customers.
CORENA’s solutions — based upon a mixture of best-of-breed
software products as well as CORENA’s own products — allow companies
to transform domain and business knowledge into structured XML/SGML
content and deploy it to a long-term `company-efficient’ industrial
solution.
“We are excited about our alliance with CORENA,” stated Tom Sanko,
vice president of Marketing for Microvision. “The Nomad System is most
valuable when it becomes part of a total productivity solution,
including software and custom content. CORENA’s IETM software offers
outstanding functionality to frontline workers, and we believe people
are going to be excited to see how the Nomad System extends those
benefits by enabling workers to stay head-up and hands-free.
“We look forward to pursuing a host of opportunities with CORENA,
not just in aviation MRO, but anywhere frontline workers need access
to information at the point of task.
“Automotive maintenance, power plant maintenance and operation,
and a variety of military maintenance tasks can all benefit from the
solutions that Microvision and CORENA will deliver. We continue to
demonstrate the Nomad System’s significant benefits in a variety of
manufacturing and maintenance settings, and we believe that the
maintenance and repair segment is a very promising growth market for
the product.”
“Mobile delivery of content is becoming more important to our
customers as they look for productivity improvements in all areas,”
commented Keld Jellesen, vice president, CORENA USA Inc. “The Nomad
System brings our compelling information distribution leg of
structured content right to the point of task for people who use
information daily to support customer services and critical business
processes.”
Based on Microvision’s patented light scanning technology, the
recently introduced Nomad Personal Display System is a high-resolution
head-worn display that presents images and information to the user on
a see-through virtual 17-inch display. This unique personal display
enables hands-free access to information such as diagrams,
instrumentation, maintenance records, moving maps and interactive
training manuals, superimposing the information on the user’s view and
creating “augmented vision.” The Nomad System features full
daylight-readability, allowing users to view high contrast images in
even the most challenging ambient lighting conditions. High quality,
Super VGA resolution makes the Nomad System immediately compatible
with a broad range of existing applications and content.
From flight paths to factory floors, surgical suites, and more,
the Nomad System can deliver major improvements in productivity,
quality and safety for virtually any type of manual task. The company
is targeting applications for workers in four vertical markets —
industrial, aerospace, medical, and military — that enable customers
to keep information in front of people engaged in manual tasks or on
the move, allowing access to information at the point of task and
information, anywhere.
About Microvision: www.mvis.com
Headquartered in Bothell, Wash., Microvision Inc. is the developer
of the patented retinal scanning display technology and a world leader
in micro miniature optical scanning technology for display and imaging
applications. The company’s technology has applications in a broad
range of military, medical, industrial, professional and consumer
information products. Nomad is a trademark of Microvision, Inc.
About Corena: www.corena.com
Corena offers comprehensive consulting services spanning systems
integration programming to project management of IT projects. The
innovative company with end-to-end solutions, successfully combine
information content management with mission critical processes. For
further information, contact the company at 425/643-7443 or visit
www.corena.com
Forward Looking Statement
The information set forth in this release includes
“forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and is subject to the
safe harbor created by those sections. Certain factors that
realistically could cause results to differ materially from those
projected in the company’s forward-looking statements are set forth in
the company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form
10-Q, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
CONTACT:
Microvision
Matt Nichols (media), 425/415-6847
mattn@mvis.com
or
Brian Heagler (investors), 425/415-6847
brian_heagler@mvis.com