Tyco Electronics Selects Dyadem for Quality Risk Management Solutions

Toronto – March 11, 2010 – Dyadem today announced that it has been selected by Tyco Electronics Ltd. (NYSE: TEL) to supply Quality Risk Management solutions to support Tyco Electronic’s commitment to quality of its products.  Tyco Electronics will implement Dyadem’s Stature Enterprise platform, which will create a uniform system for product quality, providing consistency and standardization across its business units.

Tyco Electronics has chosen Dyadem, the market leader in Operational and Quality Risk Management, and its Stature platform for its ease of use for all users from novice to expert and for its flexibility to adapt to the needs of each business unit.  Tyco Electronics will not only drastically reduce the time it takes to conduct quality risk assessments but also provide a way for its senior management to view comprehensive quality risks across the business, in real-time.

“We have re-engineered a standard New Product development process in our whole company. Our Engineering and Quality communities recognize the value of advanced quality planning tools, and these expectations are built in to our process, from collecting front-end customer requirements through launch in to production,” said Bob Sweeney, Director, Global Quality, Tyco Electronics.  “There is significant rigor required, so we were looking for an automation tool that would provide vertical integration and efficiency, as well as capability to take lessons-learned and incorporate in to similar and future designs.

“We face the challenge of satisfying a variety of expectations among our different businesses. We selected Dyadem’s Stature solution because it met our functional requirements, there is experience across a variety of industries, and it offered good vertical integration and intuitive ease of use to our broad user community.“

Tyco Electronics designs, manufactures and markets nearly 500,000 different products for customers in industries ranging from automotive, appliance, and aerospace and defense to telecommunications, energy, computers, and consumer electronics.  In order to maintain product quality, it conducts quality risk assessments on each product, resulting in an overwhelming amount of data that is isolated across several systems.  Stature will provide a Quality Risk Management platform that serves as a central repository for quality risk data and provides executives with traceability and visibility into quality metrics.  Consolidating this data will also help Tyco Electronics identify inefficient processes and areas where excess product scrap or re-work can be reduced and share lessons learned for product quality across facilities and production lines, worldwide.

“We’ve always been dedicated to quality excellence in our products, but as we’ve grown, the process by which we achieve quality has become more arduous,” said Gorden Best, Director, Manufacturing and Quality Systems, Tyco Electronics.  “Dyadem’s Stature solution will give us real time visibility into product quality, help us tie together information across departments, and provide a single platform that provides our people with the information they need to do their jobs well.  Our management team is committed to quality and this gives them visibility and a single view across the entire organization.”

Stature is a Web-based solution 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 preventive measures, efficiently execute processes, and make informed decisions based on project and business process performance, all in real-time.

“Tyco Electronics has a 50-year history of leadership and has grown both organically and through acquisition creating a maze of quality management systems,” said Kevin North, President and CEO, Dyadem.  “Stature will help Tyco Electronics build bridges between departments, business units and geographies, and share quality data and lessons learned.  This creates a truly global model for Quality Risk Management and will allow Tyco Electronics to focus on product quality from the plant floor to the boardroom.”

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 Tyco Electronics
Tyco Electronics Ltd. (NYSE: TEL) is a leading global provider of engineered electronic components, network solutions, specialty products and undersea telecommunication systems, with fiscal 2009 sales of US$10.3 billion to customers in more than 150 countries. We design, manufacture and market products for customers in a broad array of industries including automotive; data communication systems and consumer electronics; telecommunications; aerospace, defense and marine; medical; energy; and lighting. With approximately 7,000 engineers and worldwide manufacturing, sales and customer service capabilities, Tyco Electronics' commitment is our customers' advantage. More information on Tyco Electronics can be found at http://www.tycoelectronics.com.

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