UNOVA Division Receives $23.8 Million Contract

31 August 1998

UNOVA Division Receives $23.8 Million Contract to Service World's Largest Electronic Toll Collection System; New York's MTA Selects Amtech to Maintain Popular E-ZPass Toll System

    BEVERLY HILLS & NEW YORK--Aug. 30, 1998-- The Amtech Systems Division of Intermec Technologies Corp., a UNOVA Inc. company, today announced that it has received a $23.8 million contract to provide software and hardware service to New York's Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, an agency of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority - Bridges and Tunnels (MTA), for the largest and busiest electronic toll collection (ETC) system in the world.
    The four-year contract calls for Amtech to provide service and maintenance for the ETC system on MTA's E-ZPass(tm) toll system, which currently has more than 1.4 million customers and processes more than 450,000 transactions per day.
    Amtech was the systems integrator when the E-ZPass system was installed in 1994 and has had an ongoing maintenance contract since then. Under the new contract, Amtech will provide expanded maintenance services for the ETC software, lane controllers and peripherals for the E-ZPass system, which has grown to 10 toll plazas and 205 ETC lanes.
    "We are delighted to continue our relationship with New York's MTA," said Winston V. Guillory Jr., senior vice president, sales, marketing, and field operations, Amtech Systems Division. "In fact, `follow-on' business from software maintenance, service, tag sales and toll, and parking transaction processing fees represent a growing part of Amtech's total revenues."
    According to a 1997 market analysis conducted by Transport Technology Publishing LLC, maintenance is the fastest growing sector in the global ETC industry, increasing an estimated 24 percent each year.
    Amtech Systems Division is the world's leading provider of wireless identification, tracking and monitoring technologies. With its 7 million electronic tags and 14,000 readers distributed throughout the world, the company designs, manufactures, markets, integrates and supports solutions, primarily for the intelligent transportation industry, and is the only company that meets automatic equipment identification standards worldwide in all transportation markets.
    Key markets include electronic toll and traffic management; rail, intermodal and fleet; PassKey(sm) Payment Services, a new turnkey system providing cash-free, card-free, hands-free parking and customer account management; and access control for parking, security, airports and ground transportation.
    Intermec Technologies a global leader in the development, manufacture and integration of automated data collection and mobile computing systems. The company's products and services are used by customers in multiple industries to improve productivity, quality and responsiveness of business operations, from supply chain management and enterprise resource planning to field sales and service.
    The companies formerly known as Intermec, Norand and UBI were consolidated in the spring of 1997. As of June 1998, the Transportation Systems Group of Amtech Corp. also became a part of Intermec Technologies Corp.
    UNOVA is a $1.5 billion industrial technologies company, formed by a spin-off from Western Atlas Inc. UNOVA specializes in automated data collection, mobile computing systems and the design and integration of manufacturing and machine tool systems. The company has global leadership in all its businesses.

    NOTE TO EDITORS: For more information on Intermec, see the corporate fact sheet at www.unova.com/8-20/IntroducingDivisions-ADS.html