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Fourth Shift Recognizes Companies Who Have Achieved Excellence

24 September 1998

Fourth Shift Recognizes Companies Who Have Achieved Manufacturing Excellence

    FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Sept. 24 -- Hurricane Georges did not
stop Fourth Shift Corporation from inducting five new members
to its Circle of Excellence at the Fourth Shift Fall User Conference held at
the Marriott Harbor Beach Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.  The Fourth Shift
Circle of Excellence awards program recognizes manufacturing companies who
have demonstrated exceptional on-time delivery rates, high productivity
levels, and the ability to meet rapidly growing customer demands.
    Using Fourth Shift MSS for OBJECTS, the inductees were able to
significantly increase on-time delivery rates, finished product first pass
quality yield, annual revenue per employee, and annual inventory turns.  The
companies were also able to decrease manufacturing cycle time, customer reject
rates, and customer order lead times.

    The Circle of Excellence Award winners are:

        Company              Location                  Products
    Action by Invacare     Chandler, AZ      Custom-built wheel chairs

    Lambda Novatronics     Pompano Beach, FL Military power supplies and
                                                avionics
    Allomatic Products
     Company              Sullivan, IN       Clutch plates, bands and filters
                                                for the automotive
                                                transmission after-market

    Nyltech               Manchester, NH     Finished nylon products for the
                                                automotive, electrical and
                                                consumer products industries

    Ingersoll-Rand         Bombay, India     Air and gas compressors, process
                                                 pumps, construction and
                                                 mining equipment

    A summary of each of these companies' accomplishments may be found at
http://www.fs.com/frames.cfm?bodypage=/customers/circle.cfm.

    "We are proud to have contributed to the success of our customers and we
applaud these companies for their efforts.  The Circle of Excellence is one of
our major customer satisfaction metrics," said Fourth Shift CEO, M.M. Stuckey.
    Today's Circle of Excellence awards breakfast occurred as Florida
officials were considering an evacuation of South Florida in preparation for
landfall of Hurricane Georges.  The conference was among the largest of the
Fourth Shift User Group since Fourth Shift customers began to meet formally in
1989.
    Fourth Shift announces Circle of Excellence inductees twice a year at the
Fall and Spring International User Group Conferences.  This Fall's inductees
join the 21 companies who were inducted at the Spring conference.
    About Fourth Shift
    Fourth Shift Corporation http://www.fs.com is a Minneapolis-based global
application software company that develops software for manufacturing and
distribution enterprises worldwide.  The Company's software has been licensed
by more than 3,300 customer sites in 60 countries including 150 of the Fortune
500 U.S. companies, and more than 50 of the Fortune global 250 industrial
companies.  Fourth Shift maintains close strategic relationships with leading
information technology vendors Micro Data Base Systems, Inc. (mdbs) and
Microsoft.  Fourth Shift is also a Microsoft Solution Provider Partner.  The
Company's stock trades in the United States on the Nasdaq National Market
under the symbol FSFT.