Iqgeo Regulatory News (IQG)

9 April 2013

Large Automotive Manufacturer Deploys Atlas Copco Industrial Tools and Ubisense Smart Factory System across Manufacturing Facility in France

Cambridge, UK - Ubisense Group plc ("Ubisense" or the "Company") (LSE:UBI), a market leader in location based smart technology, is pleased to announce that a large automotive manufacturer has deployed its Smart Factory System across their manufacturing facility in France.

As part of a joint solution from Atlas Copco and Ubisense, the Smart Factory System has been installed on workstations to control tools across their assembly line. The installation ensures that tightening operations are performed accurately and that the appropriate tool setting adjustments are made, ensuring overall that the tightening operations have been performed correctly.

Prior to the installation of the Ubisense Smart Factory System, the process was manually performed by an operator via a barcode scan which added around six seconds per tool operation per vehicle.

Eric Cassard, Business Line Manager at Atlas Copco, MVI France, said: "We are very pleased to have partnered with Ubisense on this project to offer our customers access to leading edge location manufacturing solutions, with the reassurance of global maintenance and support from the world's leading industrial tool manufacturer."

Richard Green, CEO of Ubisense, added: "The outstanding partnership that we have developed with Atlas Copco continues to go from strength to strength and is allowing us to rapidly introduce critically important location manufacturing solutions to a broad range of manufacturing companies."

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About Atlas Copco

Atlas Copco Tools and Assembly Systems Motor Vehicle Industry is a division within Atlas Copco's Industrial Technique business area. It markets hand-held electric and pneumatic tools, assembly systems, software and services to the automotive industry worldwide. It also offers global project management for multinational customers. The division is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. For more information visit www.atlascopco.com

About Ubisense

Ubisense is a market leader of location-based Smart Factory Solutions which enable companies to optimise their manufacturing processes. By keeping track of key assets, Ubisense solutions bring clarity to complex operations in industries while also improving quality and reliability. Ubisense uses a unique combination of advanced industry knowledge and an experienced team to deliver effective and superior solutions that offer unprecedented visibility, control and accuracy, delivering time and cost savings. Ubisense solutions are easy to implement and flexible to a particular business's needs, no matter which area of the globe they operate in.

Ubisense location solutions are used by a growing number of blue chip customers across the world, such as BMW, Daimler, Aston Martin, BAE, Airbus, Caterpillar, Hyundai, Duke Energy, Cox and Deutsche Telekom. For more information please visit: www.ubisense.net.

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