Fresno Valves Chooses RuleStream to Automate Quoting and Engineering Documentation Processes; RuleStream Helps Water Control Devices Leader Exceed Customer Expectations

WAKEFIELD, Mass.--June 20, 2005--RuleStream Corporation today announced that Fresno Valves & Castings has licensed RuleStream's RPM solutions to help the company meet growing customer demand for its irrigation products.

RuleStream's integrated engineering environment automates Fresno Valves' request for quotation (RFQ) and engineering documentation processes. This includes bill-of-material creation, cost estimates, and 2D and 3D manufacturing drawings for custom orders. The RuleStream solution is ideally suited to meet the unique requirements of Fresno Valve's varied customer base.

Using RuleStream, Fresno Valves has been able to:

-- Produce accurate quotes in hours or minutes instead of days

-- Shrink engineering drawing time from a week to as little as a half day

-- Reduce shop drawing preparation from a week to less than one half day

-- Cut as much as one to two weeks off total production time

"There are differences in every case, so the initial quote requires detailed engineering drawings, and those form the basis for the final manufacturing drawings," said Jim Brown, project manager at Fresno Valves. "With RuleStream, we now have a great sales solution that delivers more timely and accurate quote responses, as well as better products with improved customization capabilities."

"Fresno Valves' application of RuleStream demonstrates the tremendous value discrete manufacturers realize with RPM," said Robert Nierman, RuleStream's chief executive officer. "This value is rapidly demonstrated through the increased speed of Fresno's RFQ process, and its corresponding ability to support more sales opportunities. Fresno Valve's reduced engineering times-and the resulting increased focus on product enhancement and new product development-is a great testimonial to the benefits RuleStream can achieve for our customers."

About Fresno Valves

Fresno Valves and Castings, Inc. was founded in 1952 (as Showalter's Irrigation Appliance), and began producing irrigation gates. Since changing its name to Fresno Valves Castings in 1974, the company has expanded to comprise three major divisions servicing markets around the world. The Pierce Fittings division is responsible for manufacturing a comprehensive line of some of the world's most popular irrigation fittings. The Flow-Guard Filtration division manufactures high-quality, long-lasting stainless steel filters for use in agriculture and, increasingly, in other applications - including media filters, gravity screen filters, and pressurized screen filters. Since the late 1950's, Fresno Valves has also owned and operated a state-of-the-art brass foundry designed for high-quality, high-production output of molded parts and devices. For more information about Fresno Valves and Castings, visit www.fresnovalves.com.

About RuleStream

RuleStream, the leader in Rules-driven Product Management (RPM), allows discrete manufacturers to respond to customer-specific product requirements more rapidly, accurately and efficiently. RuleStream's patent-pending software technology aggregates and manages Intellectual Property (IP) assets to automate complex decisions for all product-centric business operations. These include quote-to-cash/build-to-order processes, as well as variant design, new product development and contract engineering.

RuleStream helps engineer-to-order firms increase their sales win rate, shorten lead times, and achieve better margins and higher customer satisfaction. RuleStream's RPM technology also improves new product development processes, enabling higher productivity, faster design cycles, fewer errors and better quality.

RuleStream ensures that business decisions incorporate the most up-to-date product-based intellectual property, employing a breakthrough user environment that allows subject matter experts to easily capture rules about requirements, best practices, and capabilities for engineering, manufacturing and sales.

RuleStream customers include business leaders like General Electric and The Babcock & Wilcox Company. RuleStream's customers also include innovators like Fresno Valves & Castings, Interior Concepts, Lytron, CampbellRhea, S.A. Armstrong and other mid-sized companies in a broad range of industries. For more information visit www.rulestream.com.