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SMART Schedule Selected as Finalist for Product of the Year Award

Plant Engineering readers vote for their favorite new products

Hoffman Estates, Ill. – October 27, 2005 – Syclo, a leading developer of mobile computing solutions, today announced its SMART Schedule product, a dispatch and scheduling solution that works with enterprise asset management (EAM) systems, has been named a finalist for Plant Engineering magazine's 2005 Product of the Year awards.

SMART Schedule assists organizations who maintain physical assets such as equipment, plant floor, facilities, and fleets to schedule the best person to perform the most critical work on time. Solving this resource management issue enables significant improvements in worker productivity, customer satisfaction and asset reliability. Through pre-configured scheduling rules and business objectives, SMART Schedule provides planners and schedulers with a powerful tool for planning work, dispatching assignments and managing conflicts.

"Maintenance organizations have long struggled with the fact that a majority of the scheduling solutions on the market are very difficult to integrate with their EAM systems, and aren't necessarily designed for a user base of skilled technicians from multiple trades," said Mark Curatolo, Syclo's Vice President of Marketing. "With SMART Schedule, we have created the first scheduling and dispatch solution specifically targeted toward the EAM marketplace. We are pleased that Plant Engineering's readers have once again recognized the value of our products."

SMART Schedule is the latest addition to the SMART Mobile Suite for mobile asset maintenance, deployed at hundreds of maintenance and field service organizations around the world. Syclo also has earned recognition for several of its other SMART solutions. In 2001, SMART Work Manager was named Plant Engineering's Product of the Year for the maintenance software category; SMART Inventory received the same recognition in 2002; and SMART Auditor also won the same achievement in 2003.

Plant Engineering Product of the Year finalists will be featured in the magazine's November issue. Unlike other sponsored industry honors awarded at the editorial team's discretion, winners for Plant Engineering's product of the year awards are determined by a vote from pre-qualified readers – the plant engineers themselves. Plant Engineering, the leading problem-solving information source for America's industrial plant engineers, is available online at www.manufacturing.net/ple/.

About Syclo
Syclo is a leading developer of mobile solutions that streamline workflow and maximize productivity. Building on its flagship development platform Agentry™, Syclo offers fully configurable mobile applications that run on a variety of devices and support real-time wireless or offline computing. Syclo's SMART Mobile Suite, the most widely deployed solution for enterprise asset management, includes pre-packaged and pre-integrated applications for maintenance and field service teams. Syclo and its partners utilize Agentry to design, develop and integrate customized solutions on-time and within budget. Over 500 Global 2000 corporations across industries have deployed Syclo's solutions. For more information, visit www.syclo.com, or email info@syclo.com.

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