Aleier Adds New Condition-Based Maintenance Capabilities in Its FM1j interpriseTM Enterprise Asset Management System

October 16, 2007; 04:54 AM

PLANO, Texas--Enterprise asset management leader Aleier, Inc. (a subsidiary of RF Monolithics, Inc. (RFM) (NASDAQ:RFMI)) today announced the release of Version 6.2 of its flagship FM1j interprise™ Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system. Today’s release includes key enhancements to utilize equipment operating data to implement condition-based maintenance in machine-to-machine (M2M) applications and to streamline the management of work requests and workorders. This latest software upgrade comes just one year after Aleier was acquired by wireless communications leader RFM, an industry leader in M2M enabling technologies.

“The confluence of regulatory pressures for energy conservation and reporting, along with rapidly emerging technologies like wireless sensor networking put incredible pressures upon asset, building and factory managers to improve asset management and maintenance management,” said Bill Caver, president of Aleier. “Version 6.2 of FM1j interprise addresses those pressures and greatly helps our customers fully manage and maintain all their capital assets across their entire life-cycles throughout the enterprise.”

This upgrade release adds the following major capabilities to FM1j interprise:

• Enhanced Condition-Based Maintenance – FM1j interprise can now receive readings from multiple sensors for an asset in M2M or wireless sensor applications. Those readings are analyzed when received using a configurable set of rules, and FM1j interprise can respond to trigger conditions by generating alerts, creating work orders, and sending control instructions to actuators. FM1j interprise displays recent condition readings in a graph. When interfaced to other systems, the data can also be used for regulatory reporting, devising condition indices for capital planning, and financial management.
• Streamlined Workflow Management – FM1j interprise V6.2 provides an easier method for managing work requests and workorders that makes processing multiple workorders faster and simpler. The improved user interface uses AJAX technology to present more information on a single screen, allow operations of multiple items concurrently, and quickly progress work requests and workorders through the client’s specific workflow.
• Improved Materials Management – The new release significantly improves the FM1j interprise material and inventory management capabilities by adding more powerful functionality while also simplifying the materials management processes.

This latest release of FM1j interprise also incorporates a wide range of user suggestions to improve functionality and usability throughout the application.

FM1j interprise is the Aleier flagship Enterprise Asset Management application designed to serve the asset and maintenance management needs of the largest, most sophisticated multi-site organizations. It is a web-architected application designed to operate in a modern web services environment, and provides a full set of EAM functions, including asset accounting, maintenance management, inventory and warehouse management, and human resource management. FM1j interprise includes FM1 Bridge, which is designed to ease FM1j’s integration with a broad range of common enterprise applications, including accounting and financial applications, human resource systems, ERP applications and automation systems. FM1j interprise runs on common enterprise system software, including the Oracle Database and Application Server.

The new release of FM1j interprise is available immediately to all existing customers of the product who have active maintenance contracts. FM1j interprise was launched in 2002 and has been continuously upgraded since its introduction. Current customers of FM1j interprise include the Department of Defense, a number of state, county and municipal government institutions, and higher education institutions. A detailed synopsis of the new release is available for customers to download on the Aleier web site at www.aleier.com.

About Aleier, Inc.

With offices in Plano, Texas, Aleier has deployed Enterprise Asset Management software for over a decade in municipal, state, and federal government agencies and businesses for applications including maintenance management, fixed asset tracking, building automation and electronics control and monitoring. Aleier software provides customers the ability to utilize and manage the data they now have available, which can be collected via either a wired or wireless data collection infrastructure. Its architecture and features make it an ideal platform for developing asset management and optimization applications seen as a key opportunity within the pervasive internet space. For more information regarding Aleier’s products and services, please visit Aleier’s web site at www.aleier.com. Aleier is a wholly owned subsidiary of RF Monolithics, Inc.

About RFM

RFM, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is enabling the next generation of wireless applications with a solutions-driven, technology-enabled approach to wireless connectivity. RFM provides the connections to extend the edge of the Internet to communicate with the billions of unconnected machines through a broad range of low-power wireless solutions – from comprehensive industrial wireless sensor networks to high-performance RF components. RFM was named to M2M Magazine’s “2007 M2M 100,” a list of the most important and influential machine-to-machine technology providers. For more information on RF Monolithics, Inc., please visit the Company’s websites at www.rfm.com.