February 27, 2012

Ubisense and ATS Global form partnership to provide advanced automation solutions to manufacturing companies worldwide

Cambridge and Nuneaton, UK - Ubisense Group Plc ("Ubisense" or the "Company") (LSE:UBI), a market leader in location solutions technology and ATS Global ("ATS") are pleased to announce a strategic partnership agreement to deploy advanced industrial and process automation solutions for the world's leading manufacturing companies.

The partnership will allow both organisations' new and existing customers to take advantage of the latest advances in location-aware manufacturing solutions from Ubisense combined with the latest thinking from ATS in leading edge Manufacturing Execution Systems ("MES").

The customer base of both companies already reaches some of the world's largest manufacturing groups including EADS, BMW, Toyota, Honda, GM, Paccar, Rolls Royce Aerospace, BAE, GKN and GE.

By combining both Ubisense and ATS solutions, manufacturing companies will benefit from even greater levels of flexibility and traceability, supporting manufacturing efficiency goals such as automation, process control and error proofing, and reducing the need for operator interaction such as manual inputs for job confirmation and barcode scans.

Commenting on the strategic partnership, Richard Green, CEO of Ubisense, said: "We are proud to partner with the leading practitioner in the MES marketplace, ATS Global. Their experience is unrivalled in the industry and we look forward to working with them to roll out solutions that can deliver considerable efficiencies to manufacturers across the globe."

The partnership with ATS is a clear example of our strategy aimed at partnering with leading manufacturing systems providers to enable our products to be trialled and selected by the some of the largest manufacturing groups.

Mike James, Chairman of ATS added: "We see the adoption of location aware manufacturing solutions driving significant productivity benefits for the leading manufacturing companies and believe they are set to become part of the mainstream MES landscape."

About ATS Global

ATS is the independent solution provider for Industrial, Process and Information Technology users world-wide. ATS provide products and services for all three levels of the automation pyramid; control, execution and information. ATS is an innovative, strategic knowledge partner offering six areas of expertise:

§ Control Technologies

§ SCADA*/HMI**

§ Programming Languages

§ Communication & Networks

§ Databases

§ Manufacturing Execution Systems

§ Lean Six Sigma & Quality

* Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

** Human Machine Interface

Since foundation in 1986, ATS have developed seven business activities specifically designed to support the full lifecycle of automation and IT systems. For more information www.ats-global.com 

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About Ubisense

Ubisense, the market leader of location solutions delivers mission-critical enterprise asset tracking and geospatial systems. The company's location technology provides more than 500 customers worldwide with unprecedented visibility of, and control over, previously intractable business processes. Ubisense is headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with offices in the USA; Canada; France; Germany; Singapore; and Korea. For more information visit: www.ubisense.net

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