Industry Experts Present How Winning Solar Manufacturers Use Manufacturing and Quality Execution Systems to Deliver Maximum Output and Profit Per Line

Charlotte, NC — November 17, 2008 — Camstar Systems, Inc. today announced that it will host a Solar Industry webinar titled “Reduce Your Cost Per Watt – Rapidly and Reliably”. The webinar will be held December 4, 2008 at 1:00 pm EST.

“The winners in Solar manufacturing will effectively produce products with a low cost per watt,” said Karim Lokas, Vice President of Product Strategy for Camstar. “The keys to their market leadership and nearly unlimited growth are speed of innovation and the ability to increase production volume while delivering top quality.”

In the webinar, industry experts will discuss how top solar manufacturers are embracing an enterprise manufacturing and quality execution platform to maximize output and profit from every production line. They will describe how manufacturers can deliver real-time feedback of product performance to engineering and R&D for effective process and technology improvement; and the platform approach helps manufacturers ensure process consistency, predictability and output across the entire value chain.

Guest speakers from Emcore Photovoltaics, a Camstar customer, will share how manufacturing and quality systems have helped them improve essential business processes:

• Scaling volume without compromising quality
• Detecting issues early and rapidly determining root cause
• Reducing field failures with preventive, predictive, proactive quality
• Enforcing best known methods (BKMs)
• Increasing overall equipment uptime and utilization
• Automating data acquisition and process control

The webinar is open to professionals involved in photovoltaic manufacturing and related industries. There is no cost to attend, but registration is required. Those interested can register online at www.camstar.com/cost-per-watt.html .

About Camstar Systems, Inc.

Camstar’s Enterprise Manufacturing Execution, Quality and Intelligence platform enables “Closed-Loop Quality Execution,” the end-to-end business process that surrounds manufacturing and quality operations. Camstar’s unparalleled solution optimizes the innovation and risk equation by monitoring and controlling global manufacturing and quality, and by delivering process interoperability and best practices. The result is shorter time-to-market and time-to-volume, the highest quality products, and leaner, more efficient operations.

Designed for ultimate configurability and built on a service-oriented architecture, Camstar’s comprehensive solution set includes industry-specific, out-of-the-box applications and a proven implementation methodology that ensures successful deployment and rapid time to benefit. More than 100 leading companies, including Boston Scientific, Zeiss, Applied Biosystems, ZOLL, CIBA Vision, BIOTRONIK, Stirling Medical Innovations, IBM, Hitachi, AMD, IBM, Kodak and Sony Ericsson BMC rely on Camstar as a trusted software partner.

For more information, please visit www.camstar.com.

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Media Contacts:

Chris Parsons, Camstar Systems, Inc.
cparsons@camstar.com
(704) 227-6617