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IHS Acquires Dyadem

2011-04-27T17:29:09+00:00

IHS Acquires Dyadem

IHS Inc. (NYSE:IHS), the leading global source of information and analysis, today announced it has acquired Dyadem International, Ltd., the market leader in Operational Risk Management and Quality Risk Management solutions. The company provides software and services that empower companies to discover and manage the risks to people and products in the design and manufacturing processes.

“The acquisition of Dyadem provides IHS customers with software solutions to achieve regulatory compliance and business continuity,” said IHS Chairman and CEO Jerre Stead. “Dyadem is an excellent complement to our existing Environment, Health, Safety and Sustainability business and its products strengthen our presence in this area. Dyadem’s Operational Risk Management and Quality Risk Management solutions allow us to enhance and expand solutions, products and services that our customers need.”

Dyadem provides software and services that help companies discover and manage the risks to people and products in the design and manufacturing processes through risk identification, assessment, mitigation, control, and monitoring capabilities that provide a proactive framework for managing risks and minimizing their potential impacts on organizations. Dyadem helps some of the world's largest companies achieve regulatory compliance and business continuity, serving the oil and gas, chemical, mining, pharmaceutical, medical, automotive, electronics and aerospace and defense industries.

Dyadem is headquartered in Toronto and has offices in Houston, London and Munich.

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Additional information about the transaction will be provided at the previously announced IHS Investor Day conference on Wednesday, May 4, 2011.

About IHS

IHS (NYSE: IHS) is the leading source of information and insight in pivotal areas that shape today’s business landscape: energy, economics, geopolitical risk, sustainability and supply chain management. Businesses and governments around the globe rely on the comprehensive content, expert independent analysis and flexible delivery methods of IHS to make high-impact decisions and develop strategies with speed and confidence. IHS has been in business since 1959 and became a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange in 2005. Headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, USA, IHS employs more than 4,400 people in more than 30 countries around the world. For more information, visit www.ihs.com.

About Dyadem

Dyadem is the market leader in Operational Risk Management and Quality Risk Management solutions. Dyadem provides software and services that empower companies to discover and manage the risks to people and products in the design and manufacturing processes. Dyadem helps some of the world’s largest companies achieve regulatory compliance and business continuity, serving the oil & gas, chemical, mining, pharmaceutical, medical, automotive, electronics and aerospace and defense industries. For more information, visit www.dyadem.com.

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Molex Selects Dyadem Stature as System of Record for Product Quality

2011-04-26T19:58:50+00:00

Molex Selects Dyadem Stature as System of Record for Product Quality

Toronto – April 26, 2011 – Dyadem today announced that it has been selected by Molex Incorporated (NASDAQ: MOLX and MOLXA) as its system of record for product quality. Molex, a leading global supplier of interconnection systems, will implement Dyadem’s Stature risk management software platform, helping it to create a standardized systemfor managing quality across its worldwide operations.

Molex has chosen Dyadem, the market leader in Operational and Quality Risk Management, and its Stature platform for its secure central database, multiple language support and its ability to facilitate communication between geographies and business units. This will help Molex reduce the time it takes to conduct quality risk assessments and provide a way for its senior management to view comprehensive quality risks across the business, in real-time.

Molex needed an enterprise risk management solution that would allow its 25 global design centers and 39 plants worldwide to collaborate more effectively and continuously improve quality. “Using Dyadem’s desktop software we had created a network file system to categorize and maintain our FMEAs, but moving to Stature will allow us to leverage all that information as well as all the talent we have across the organization,” said Gary Matula, Senior Vice President and CIO, Molex. “Making it fast and easy for engineers in our centers of excellence to collaborate will maximize our ability to continue to develop the innovative solutions our customers expect while making sure our IP is protected in Stature’s secure database.”

Molex designs, manufactures and sells more than 100,000 electronic, electrical and fiber optic interconnect products for a wide variety of markets that include telecommunications, automotive, data, consumer electronics and industrial. To continuously improve product quality, it conducts Design FMEAs and Process FMEAs, resulting in an overwhelming amount of data that is isolated across several systems. Stature will consolidate this data and provide more information about quality metrics, including traceability. Stature will also help Molex to identify processes and areas where excess product scrap or re-work can be reduced and share these best practices and lessons learned across facilities and production lines, worldwide.

“Stature is so flexible that we are configuring it to mimic our product development process,” said Charlie Manlapaz, CAE Project Leader, Molex. “Stature will ensure that we start with requirements and a Bill of Materials (BOM) and move to Design and Process FMEAs, through to the test plan. Then manufacturing can pick up with the control and inspection plans all within the same system. Stature will eliminate the need for multiple systems and will walk our teams through a standard process for all of our products – ensuring quality and consistency across the globe.”

Stature is a Web-based software solution for managing risk that allows users throughout the world to securely work and collaborate as a single virtual team. It is an enterprise software platform that allows organizations to accurately capture quality trends, implement preventative measures, efficiently execute processes, and make informed decisions based on project and business process performance, all in real-time. Ultimately, discrete manufacturers that use Stature aim to eliminate product and process failures, and reduce the likelihood of product recalls.

“Molex, like many companies today, recognized that it had intellectual property that was decentralized. It needed to implement a global software platform so that it could centralize quality data that had been collected over time,” said Kevin North, President and CEO, Dyadem. “When this data is centralized it can be converted into information, and when this information is communicated and distributed properly, it will become corporate knowledge – it will become legacy. In this process, Stature has helped leading edge organizations like Molex identify and mitigate a vast number of potential exposures and liabilities across the globe.”

About Dyadem
Dyadem is the market leader in Operational Risk Management and Quality Risk Management solutions. Dyadem provides software and services that empower companies to discover and manage the risks to people and products in the design and manufacturing processes. Dyadem helps some of the world’s largest companies achieve regulatory compliance and business continuity, serving the oil & gas, chemical, mining, pharmaceutical, medical, automotive, electronics and aerospace and defense industries. For more information, visit www.dyadem.com.

About Molex
Molex Incorporated is a 72-year-old global manufacturer of electronic, electrical and fiber optic interconnection systems. Based in Lisle, Illinois, USA, the Company operates 39 manufacturing locations in 16 countries. The Molex website is www.molex.com. Molex is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market (MOLX and MOLXA) in the United States and on the London Stock Exchange. The Company’s voting common stock (MOLX) is included in the S&P 500 Index.

Materion Implements Stature from Dyadem for Quality Risk Management

2011-04-14T17:00:48+00:00

Materion Implements Stature from Dyadem for Quality Risk Management

Toronto – April 14, 2011 – Dyadem today announced that it has been selected by Materion (NYSE: MTRN) to provide Quality Risk Management software solutions to support its commitment to superior product quality. Materion will use Dyadem’s Stature software to gain more visibility between departments and to more efficiently manage its quality risk assessment efforts, improve its process controls and to manage overall product quality.

Stature is being deployed at Materion's Advanced Materials Technologies & Services (AMTS) business, an advanced materials products and services company that manufactures and produces everything from specialty metals and precision optical filters to inorganic chemicals and powders. Previously, Materion had been using a non-specialized spreadsheet software program to conduct risk assessments. As part of a global project initiated in 2010 to improve its process controls across all of its manufacturing operations, Materion has implemented Stature, and is now able to consolidate and standardize all risk assessments across departments, ensuring shared corporate knowledge and the capture of best practices and lessons learned. The focus for Materion’s global quality project is the development of several key quality tools, including Process Maps, FMEAs and Control Plans. Stature will enable Materion to develop these tools in a standardized format using a common application.

"As our organization moves forward in improving our Quality Systems through the use of tools such as Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA), Dyadem software solutions will allow us to implement these tools more efficiently,” said Matthew Rigerman, Director of Quality, Materion AMTS. “Stature allows our team to share information across our product lines and production facilities, ensuring that lessons learned are communicated across our entire organization."

Stature, Dyadem’s enterprise risk management software solution, will help Materion conduct more efficient Design and Process FMEAs, and share information from one study to the next and across users. Stature is a Web-based enterprise risk and quality management system that links disconnected risk management processes across the organization. By helping companies identify and mitigate risks across a global organization, Stature enables companies to increase their operational effectiveness, comply with industry regulations and bring better quality products to market. Ensuring continuous communication and transparency throughout a program, project or process, Stature provides key performance indicators and visibility into an organization's top risks. With access to data from across risk assessments, knowledge libraries and managed through standardized templates, Stature will serve as the system of record for quality while ensuring corporate consistency across all past, present and future quality studies.

“The manufacturing industry as a whole faces a multitude of risks, in both engineering and production, and from across the entire supply chain," said Kevin North, President and CEO, Dyadem. “With Stature, Materion is not only proving its commitment to product quality, but also its commitment to its stakeholders. With better visualization of quality risks, Materion will be able to identify potential issues early in the product lifecycle, and will be able to reduce the likelihood of bringing defective products to the market.”

About Dyadem
Dyadem is the market leader in Operational Risk Management and Quality Risk Management solutions. Dyadem provides software and services that empower companies to discover and manage the risks to people and products in the design and manufacturing processes. Dyadem helps some of the world’s largest companies achieve regulatory compliance and business continuity, serving the Oil & Gas, Chemical, Mining, Pharmaceutical, Medical, Automotive, Electronics and Aerospace and Defense industries. For more information, visit www.dyadem.com.

About Materion
Brush Engineered Materials Inc. has officially changed its name to Materion Corporation and unified all of its businesses under the new Materion brand, Effective March 8, 2011. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, Materion is a leading global producer of advanced materials and services providing enabling technology solutions for customers in the fastest growing segments of long-term global growth markets including consumer electronics, defense and science, industrial components and commercial aerospace, energy, automotive electronics, telecommunications infrastructure, medical and appliance. It is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol: MTRN.

Materion Advanced Materials Technologies & Services, based in Buffalo, New York, manufactures and sells precious, non-precious, specialty metals; inorganic materials; specialty coatings and electronic packaging. For more information, visit www.materion.com.

Dyadem Named to Branham300 for Third Consecutive Year

2011-04-05T20:04:17+00:00

Dyadem Named to Branham300 for Third Consecutive Year

Toronto – April 5, 2011 – Dyadem was today named to the annual Branham300 by Branham Group, which recognizes the top 300 Canadian Information and Communications Technology (ICT) companies based on revenue. For the third consecutive year, Dyadem again moved up in the rankings to 142nd place, with annual revenue growth of 17.3% US dollars, on this year’s Top 250 Canadian ICT Companies listing.

Dyadem is the market leader in enterprise risk management solutions, providing software and services that allow companies to identify, measure, mitigate and monitor potential risks through a continuous improvement approach that allows companies to learn from their mistakes. Whether a company’s products or processes pose a risk to the environment, the safety of personnel or consumers, Dyadem helps some of the world’s largest companies establish an enterprise risk management strategy and comply with various industry regulations and standards. Dyadem solutions have helped many Global 1000 companies become more competitive by improving quality and reducing costs and have ensured business continuity by identifying and mitigating a variety of risks across the enterprise.

“Dyadem has experienced impressive growth in the past three years, cementing its position on the Branham300 once again,” said Wayne Gudbranson, President & CEO, Branham Group. “Despite a troubled economy, Dyadem proves that companies who produce solutions tailored to customer’s needs will continue to succeed.”

The Branham300 demonstrates the depth and breadth of innovative technology offered by Canadian companies and the contribution these organizations make to the economy both nationally and provincially.

“It is an honour to be recognized on the Branham300 for the third year in a row. The past year has shown how important risk planning and enterprise risk management solutions are, as natural disasters test risk management plans, disrupt supply chains and threaten the safety of communities and environments,” said Kevin North, President and CEO, Dyadem. “Dyadem’s commitment to innovation and desire to expand our risk coverage will ensure that we continue to grow and meet the needs of our customers.”

Now in its 18th year, the Branham300 recognizes the Top 300 publicly-traded and privately-held Canadian ICT companies, the Top 25 Up and Coming Canadian ICT start-ups, and the Top 25 ICT Multinationals with operations in Canada. The Branham300 is published annually in the April issue of Backbone Magazine, as well as on the Branham300 website, www.branham300.com.

About Dyadem
Dyadem is the market leader in Operational Risk Management and Quality Risk Management solutions. Dyadem provides software and services that empower companies to discover and manage the risks to people and products in the design and manufacturing processes. Dyadem helps some of the world’s largest companies achieve regulatory compliance and business continuity, serving the Oil & Gas, Chemical, Mining, Pharmaceutical, Medical, Automotive, Electronics and Aerospace and Defense industries. For more information, visit www.dyadem.com.

About Branham Group
Branham Group is a leading industry analyst and strategic consulting firm servicing the global information technology marketplace. Branham Group assists information technology companies and related institutions in achieving market success through its custom consulting services and through its multi-client research subscription programs. For more information regarding Branham Group, please visit www.branhamgroup.com.

Leroy-Somer Selects Dyadem Stature as its Enterprise Risk Management Platform

2011-03-30T20:00:17+00:00

Leroy-Somer Selects Dyadem Stature as its Enterprise Risk Management Platform

Toronto – March 30, 2011 – Dyadem today announced that it has been selected by Leroy-Somer, a subsidiary of Emerson (NYSE: EMR), to provide enterprise risk management software solutions to support the implementation of a new global quality initiative. Leroy-Somer, a global specialist in innovative drive systems and alternators, will use Dyadem’s Stature software for the deployment of its new company-wide quality initiative, following an initial pilot project across several of its sites in France.

After looking at a variety of vendors, Leroy-Somer has chosen Dyadem, the market leader in enterprise risk management, and its Stature solution, for its ability to easily share information from design and process quality assessments between departments and global sites. By using an intuitive, standardized tool, Leroy-Somer will be able to ensure consistency in its Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) studies across its different research and development centres and will be able to capitalize on the corporate knowledge captured and shared.

“We wanted to find a simple, intuitive tool that could be shared by all Leroy-Somer sites and ensure consistency, clarity and collaboration throughout our risk management processes. Stature allows us to capture knowledge and share it easily, supporting our worldwide quality initiative,” said Pierre Thery, Group Quality Director, Leroy-Somer. “Dyadem’s Stature solution will save us money and time by effectively ensuring the quality and reliability of new products without duplicating our risk management efforts.”

Leroy-Somer, a division of Emerson Industrial Automation, designs, develops and distributes drive systems and alternators. First implementing Stature at its sites in France for a pilot project, Leroy- Somer is moving to a worldwide deployment that supports global collaboration on design projects and product development. Prior to selecting Stature, Leroy-Somer utilized non-specialized software to complete various FMEA projects, but found the lack of accessible information for re-use in future studies a hindrance to efficient design and development.

Stature, Dyadem’s enterprise risk management software solution, will help Leroy-Somer conduct more efficient Design and Process FMEAs and allow it to create process control plans that provide support for superior product design and development. Stature is a Web-based enterprise risk and quality management system that links disconnected risk management processes across the organization. By helping companies identify and mitigate risks across a global organization, Stature enables companies to increase their operational effectiveness, comply with industry regulations and bring better quality products to market. Ensuring continuous communication and transparency throughout a program, project or process, Stature provides key performance indicators and visibility into an organization's top risks. With access to data from across risk assessments, extensive knowledge libraries and managed through standardized templates, Stature will save time while ensuring corporate consistency across all past, present and future quality studies.

“In a highly competitive market, Leroy-Somer will remain one step ahead by designing out quality issues before they reach manufacturing,” said Kevin North, President and CEO, Dyadem. “The purchase of Stature is indicative of Leroy-Somer’s commitment to quality. By sharing corporate knowledge and re-using information in future studies, it will avoid repeat issues, reduce operating costs and ultimately improve the overall quality of its products.”

About Dyadem
Dyadem is the market leader in Operational Risk Management and Quality Risk Management solutions. Dyadem provides software and services that empower companies to discover and manage the risks to people and products in the design and manufacturing processes. Dyadem helps some of the world’s largest companies achieve regulatory compliance and business continuity, serving the Oil & Gas, Chemical, Mining, Pharmaceutical, Medical, Automotive, Electronics and Aerospace and Defense industries. For more information, visit www.dyadem.com.

About Leroy-Somer
Leroy-Somer, a subsidiary of Emerson (NYSE: EMR), is a world leader in the manufacture of electric motors, variable speed drives and power generation, specializing in customized and standardized products to meet the demands of users, manufacturers and the major standards required by industrial markets of the world. For more information visit www.leroy-somer.com.

Dyadem Named Finalist in Three Categories in the 2011 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards by Netw

2011-03-22T19:58:29+00:00

Dyadem Named Finalist in Three Categories in the 2011 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards by Network Products Guide

Toronto – March 22, 2011 – Dyadem today announced that Network Products Guide, industry's leading technology research and advisory guide, has named Dyadem CEO Kevin North and enterprise risk management software Stature finalists in the 6th Annual 2011 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards. President and CEO Kevin North is a finalist in the Executive of the Year category while Stature was selected as a finalist in both the Compliance software and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) software categories. These industry and peer awards from Network Products Guide are the world's premier information technology awards honoring achievements and recognitions in every facet of the IT industry.

Stature is a Web-based software solution for managing risk that allows users throughout the world to securely work and collaborate as a single virtual team. It allows companies to manage and mitigate all of their various risks and unwanted events on a centralized platform, creating a more efficient, visible and interconnected risk management system.

By using a centralized database and Web-based interface, Stature ensures that information is retained for future studies and shared across the enterprise. With standardized templates and reporting for a variety of types of risk assessments, and the ability to capture prior knowledge for use in future studies, Stature ensures both corporate consistency and visibility into leading and lagging indicators of risk. Dyadem customers can harness this data, wrapping critical information into easy-to-understand reports and dashboards that help them to identify and respond to trends as they are happening.

“Our annual awards seek to find leaders in their industries that continue to innovate year over year," said Rake Narang, Editor-in-Chief, Network Products Guide. “Companies that succeed focus heavily on their customer needs and Dyadem is no different with its Stature solution. As a two-time winner, we wish them luck in finding success for a third year in a row.”

“We are honored to receive this recognition for Stature for the third consecutive year by Network Products Guide,” said Kevin North, President and CEO, Dyadem. “We’ve worked closely with our customers to understand the unique requirements of their respective industries and we will continue to innovate and expand our solutions to meet the evolving needs of EH&S and quality professionals.”

About Dyadem
Dyadem is the market leader in Operational Risk Management and Quality Risk Management solutions. Dyadem provides software and services that empower companies to discover and manage the risks to people and products in the design and manufacturing processes. Dyadem helps some of the world’s largest companies achieve regulatory compliance and business continuity, serving the Oil & Gas, Chemical, Mining, Pharmaceutical, Medical, Automotive, Electronics and Aerospace and Defense industries. For more information, visit www.dyadem.com.

About Network Products Guide Awards
As industry’s leading technology research and advisory guide, Network Products Guide from Silicon Valley plays a vital role in keeping decision makers and end-users informed of the choices they can make in all areas of information technology. You will discover a wealth of information and tools in this guide including the best products and services, roadmaps, industry directions, technology advancements and independent product evaluations that facilitate in making the most pertinent technology decisions impacting business and personal goals. The guide follows conscientious research methodologies developed and enhanced by industry experts. To learn more, visit www.networkproductsguide.com.

Multisorb Technologies Selects Stature from Dyadem for Quality Risk Management

2011-03-21T19:38:57+00:00

Multisorb Technologies Selects Stature from Dyadem for Quality Risk Management

Toronto – March 21, 2011 – Dyadem today announced that it has been selected by Multisorb Technologies, the world leader in active packaging technology, to provide Quality Risk Management software solutions to support its commitment to superior product quality. Multisorb will use Dyadem’s Stature software to enable users to collaborate and tap into shared Quality Risk Management knowledge.

Multisorb Technologies designs, develops and produces active packaging technology for use in the healthcare, food and beverage, electronics and transportation markets. Multisorb has been using Dyadem’s desktop software for several years and by upgrading to Stature, Dyadem's enterprise technology, it can retain its corporate FMEA processes while empowering its users with access to real-time data and historical information.

“Stature was a natural progression for us, having already been a user of Dyadem’s desktop FMEA software. With Stature, we have a simple, intuitive tool that can be accessed and shared by multiple Multisorb sites to ensure consistency, clarity and collaboration throughout our risk management processes. Stature allows us to capture knowledge and share it easily, supporting our commitment to quality,” said Keith Ware, Process & Quality Engineer Leader, Multisorb Technologies. “Dyadem’s Stature solution will save us time and money by effectively ensuring the quality and reliability of new products without duplicating our risk management efforts.”

Stature, Dyadem’s enterprise risk management software solution, will help Multisorb conduct more efficient Design and Process FMEAs and share information from one study to the next and across users. Stature is a Web-based enterprise risk and quality management system that links disconnected risk management processes across the organization. By helping companies identify and mitigate risks across a global organization, Stature enables companies to increase their operational effectiveness, comply with industry regulations and bring better quality products to market. Ensuring continuous communication and transparency throughout a program, project or process, Stature provides key performance indicators and visibility into an organization's top risks. With access to data from across risk assessments, knowledge libraries and managed through standardized templates, Stature will serve as the system of record for quality while ensuring corporate consistency across all past, present and future quality studies.

“In a highly competitive packaging market, Multisorb will remain one step ahead by designing out quality issues before they reach manufacturing,” said Kevin North, President and CEO, Dyadem. “The purchase of Stature is indicative of Multisorb’s commitment to quality. By sharing corporate knowledge and incorporating past lessons learned in future studies, it will avoid repeat issues, reduce operating costs and ultimately improve the overall quality of its products.”

About Dyadem
Dyadem is the market leader in Operational Risk Management and Quality Risk Management solutions. Dyadem provides software and services that empower companies to discover and manage the risks to people and products in the design and manufacturing processes. Dyadem helps some of the world’s largest companies achieve regulatory compliance and business continuity, serving the Oil & Gas, Chemical, Mining, Pharmaceutical, Medical, Automotive, Electronics and Aerospace and Defense industries. For more information, visit www.dyadem.com.

About Multisorb Technologies
Multisorb Technologies has been an innovator in sorbent technology for 50 years. Founded in 1961 by John S. Cullen to protect products against the damaging effects of moisture, today Multisorb is the world leader in the development and production of active packaging components. For more information, visit www.multisorb.com.

Toro Selects Stature from Dyadem for its Quality Risk Management Process

2011-03-10T17:34:19+00:00

Toro Selects Stature from Dyadem for its Quality Risk Management Process

Toronto – March 10, 2011 – Dyadem today announced that it has been selected by The Toro Company, (NYSE: TTC), to provide risk management software solutions to support its mission of superior customer care and constant innovation. Dyadem's Stature software will enable Toro to standardize its risk management processes and to identify design and manufacturing risks early in the product lifecycle.

As a leading worldwide provider of turf and landscape maintenance equipment, and precision irrigation systems, Toro prides itself on quality. It required a scalable, configurable system that would comply with its Advanced Quality Planning (“AQP”) process while also bridging the traditional gaps that exist between engineering, quality and manufacturing.

“Toro has been using Dyadem’s desktop software for several years and by upgrading to Stature, Dyadem's enterprise technology, we will be able to retain our AQP and Machine Risk Assessment Process. Moving to a Web-based system will help us break down silos and standardize our quality processes across the company,” said Chesly Branby, AQP Manager, The Toro Company.

The key benefits that Stature brings to Toro are:

Centralized capture of all risk information for future consideration and lessons learned
Pre-configured templates for industry standard studies, like AQP and FMEA
Automatic email notification when a new task is assigned to ensure completion
Cross study reporting and dashboards to provide executive-level visibility
Information sharing across divisions, facilities and geographies to enable collaboration

“We are proud to partner with Toro as it advances its Quality Risk Management process. In this highly competitive market, Toro will retain its customer loyalty by ensuring quality throughout its product lines,” said Kevin North, President and CEO, Dyadem. “By sharing corporate knowledge and retaining a catalogue of lessons learned, it will avoid repeat issues, reduce excess scrap and rework, improve global visibility, speed decision-making, and ultimately improve the overall quality of its products.”

About Dyadem
Dyadem is the market leader in Operational Risk Management and Quality Risk Management solutions. Dyadem provides software and services that empower companies to discover and manage the risks to people and products in the design and manufacturing processes. Dyadem helps some of the world’s largest companies achieve regulatory compliance and business continuity, serving the Oil & Gas, Chemical, Mining, Pharmaceutical, Medical, Automotive, Electronics and Aerospace and Defense industries. For more information, visit www.dyadem.com.

About The Toro Company
The Toro Company (NYSE: TTC) is a leading worldwide provider of turf and landscape maintenance equipment, and precision irrigation systems. With sales of nearly $1.7 billion in fiscal 2010, Toro's global presence extends to more than 80 countries through its reputation of world-class service, innovation and turf expertise. Since 1914, the company has built a tradition of excellence around a number of strong brands to help customers care for golf courses, sports fields, public green spaces, commercial and residential properties, and agricultural fields. More information is available at www.toro.com.

Linamar Selects Stature from Dyadem for Total Quality Management

2011-03-07T18:30:51+00:00

Linamar Selects Stature from Dyadem for Total Quality Management

Toronto – March 7, 2011 – Dyadem today announced that it has been selected by Linamar, (TSX: LNR), to provide risk management software solutions to support its mission of Total Quality Management (TQM) and complete customer satisfaction. The execution of this global quality initiative will be based on Dyadem's Stature software, allowing Linamar to standardize its risk management processes and to identify design and manufacturing risks early in the product lifecycle. At Stature’s core is the ability to capture best practices and share lessons learned among all stakeholders and this will be a key factor in Linamar’s success.

As a diversified global manufacturer of highly engineered products, the ever-increasing needs of customers for higher levels of quality require ever more robust and integrated tools. To meet these more demanding requirements of today’s customers the tools used must be highly flexible and usable across the enterprise. In order to attain such a feat, Linamar required a scalable, highly configurable system that would comply with its corporate APQP process while also bridging the traditional gaps that exist between engineering, quality and manufacturing teams. Linamar has been using Dyadem’s desktop software for several years and by upgrading to Stature, Dyadem's enterprise technology, it can retain its corporate APQP process while empowering its users with 24/7 access to real-time data and knowledge sharing across the globe. Linamar will begin deploying Stature in early 2011, with expected completion of the global rollout by year-end.

“Dyadem's approach to risk management will help us continue to grow at the pace we need while also retaining our high level of customer satisfaction and loyalty. Stature will enable us to effectively manage our critical risks from anywhere in our business and mitigate those risks on an on-going basis,” said Six Sigma Master Black Belt Michael Smith, Quality and Launch Group, Linamar. “Our ability to control quality will be improved by being able to manage the connected elements of our APQP documents from customer requirements to detailed operator instructions. Stature, with its powerful database functionality and global accessibility, will allow the dynamic maintenance of connected documents as well as share the knowledge across all of our global operations. This tool will help to standardize our quality processes while still allowing for flexibility to manage differences between customers and regions.”

The key benefits that Stature brings to Linamar are:

Centralized capture of all risk information for future consideration and lessons learned
Assignment and management of tasks to provide traceability
Pre-configured templates for industry standard studies, like APQP and FMEA
Automatic email notification when a new task is assigned to ensure completion
Cross study reporting and dashboards to provide executive-level visibility
Sharing of a common process across facilities to ensure consistency
Information sharing across divisions, facilities and geographies to enable collaboration
Configurability to enable the use of corporate standards
Multiple Language interfaces for our global operations

“We are proud to partner with Linamar as it advances its Total Quality Management program. As globalization has increased and the supply chain has elongated, tremendous challenges have besieged automotive suppliers,” said Kevin North, President and CEO, Dyadem. “In this highly competitive market, Linamar will remain a Supplier of Choice by designing out quality issues before they reach manufacturing. By sharing corporate knowledge and retaining a catalogue of lessons learned, it will avoid repeat issues, reduce excess scrap and rework, improve global visibility, speed decision-making, and ultimately improve the overall quality of its products.”

About Dyadem
Dyadem is the market leader in Operational Risk Management and Quality Risk Management solutions. Dyadem provides software and services that empower companies to discover and manage the risks to people and products in the design and manufacturing processes. Dyadem helps some of the world’s largest companies achieve regulatory compliance and business continuity, serving the Oil & Gas, Chemical, Mining, Pharmaceutical, Medical, Automotive, Electronics and Aerospace and Defense industries. For more information, visit www.dyadem.com.

About Linamar Corporation
Linamar Corporation (TSX:LNR) is a diversified global manufacturing company of highly engineered products powering vehicles, motion, work and lives. The company is made up of 4 key divisions – Manufacturing, Driveline, Industrial Commercial Energy (ICE) and Skyjack, all world leaders in the design, development and production of highly engineered products. The company’s Manufacturing and Driveline divisions focus on precision metallic components, modules and systems for engine, transmission and driveline systems designed for passenger vehicle markets. The ICE group concentrates on similar products for on and off highway vehicle, energy and other industrial markets. The company’s Skyjack division is noted for their innovative, high quality mobile industrial equipment, notably its classleading aerial work platforms and telehandlers. With more than 12,500 employees in 39 manufacturing locations, 5 R&D centers and 13 sales offices in 11 countries in North America, Europe and Asia, for more information about Linamar Corporation and its industry leading products and services, visit www.linamar.com.

Solvay Advanced Polymers Implements Stature from Dyadem to Standardize Risk Assessments

2011-02-15T18:25:25+00:00

Solvay Advanced Polymers Implements Stature from Dyadem to Standardize Risk Assessments

Toronto, Canada – February 15, 2011 – Dyadem today announced that Solvay Advanced Polymers, a leading plastics producer and division of Solvay (NYSE Euronext: SOLB.BE), has chosen Stature from Dyadem to standardize risk assessments and share enterprise risk data across locations.

Previously using Dyadem’s best-selling desktop software, PHA-Pro, Solvay needed the flexibility and accessibility of a web-based solution to share risk assessments and enable collaboration across departments. With Stature, Solvay can configure templates to suit each location, and create a consistent method for analyzing risk across departments. With one consolidated tool all for risk management efforts, Solvay Advanced Polymers will gain operational transparency and visibility of risk, and be able to prioritize mitigation strategies. The dashboards and built-in search engine that Stature provides, as well as the ability to track recommendations from start to finish, will increase the effectiveness of Solvay’s controls and ensure the entire company continues to produce safe, reliable products.

Stature, a web-based solution, allows all users to access and edit risk assessment data, and will not only link past and present studies, but also create a database of corporate knowledge for future use. The increased flexibility and visibility that a web-based solution provides was imperative to Solvay’s choice. With access to data from across risk assessments, extensive knowledge libraries and standardized templates, Stature will save time while ensuring corporate consistency across all past, present and future risk studies.

“Having already used Dyadem’s desktop software, we were well aware of the usefulness of the configurable, standard templates and risk assessment solutions it provides,” said Ted Gadziemski, HSE Manager/PSM Coordinator, Solvay Advanced Polymers. “The scalability of Stature will allow us to implement an enterprise risk management solution to a number of sites in the near future, making our overall risk strategy a standardized, global effort.”

“Solvay Advanced Polymers has already taken the first step to an improved risk management strategy by implementing Stature. Collaboration between departments and leveraging lessons learned for better knowledge management is crucial, and better ensures that executives can properly visualize and prioritize risks to their operations,” said Kevin North, President and CEO, Dyadem. “With Stature, management has access to real-time risk information including leading and lagging key performance indicators, and risk management specialists have access to the collective knowledge of their counterparts from across the entire organization.”

About Dyadem
Dyadem is the market leader in Operational Risk Management and Quality Risk Management solutions. Dyadem provides software and services that empower companies to discover and manage the risks to people and products in the design and manufacturing processes. Dyadem helps some of the world’s largest companies achieve regulatory compliance and business continuity, serving the oil & gas, chemical, mining, pharmaceutical, medical, automotive, electronics and aerospace and defense industries. For more information, visit www.dyadem.com.

About Solvay Advanced Polymers
Solvay Advanced Polymers produces more plastics with more performance than any other company in the world. Headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, Solvay Advanced Polymers produces compounds at its plants in North America, Europe and India. Solvay Advanced Polymers is a division of Solvay, which is an international industrial group active in Chemistry. It offers a broad range of products and solutions that contribute to improving quality of life. The group is headquartered in Brussels and employs about 19,000 people in 50 countries. Solvay is listed on the NYSE Euronext stock exchange in Brussels (NYSE Euronext: SOLB.BE - Bloomberg: SOLB.BB - Reuters: SOLBt.BR). For more information visit www.solvay.com or visit Solvay Advanced Polymers at http://www.solvayplastics.com/sites/solvayplastics/EN/Companies/Solvay_Advanced_Polymers/Pages/Welcome.aspx.