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Source: Gwen Veneskey (glvenes@ibm.net)
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PRESS RELEASE 


Contact:        	Gwen L. Veneskey, Director
                	Marketing/Communications
                	(412) 488-9730 glvenes@ibm.net


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, February 4, 1999


Aviar, Inc. releases Ver. 1.01 of Oz., its voice-activated 
CMMS. Oz. works under Aurora Pittsburgh,
PA -- Aviar, parent company of Ounce of Prevention 
Software, announced today that, it has released Ver. 1.01 
of its Oz. of Prevention System for the OS/2 platforms. Oz 
was fully tested and runs well under IBM's new Warp Server 
for e-business (Aurora) with DB2 Universal 5.2. 

Included in the new version are Barcoding capabilities. 
Using this feature in Oz., the printed Work Order
containing the Bar Code symbol for the WO Number can be 
taken by the Maintenance workers to the Parts Room when 
requesting the needed parts. There, the Parts Clerk can 
swipe the Bar Code symbol on the Work Order and the Bar 
Code symbol on the Part label. The Parts Clerk can manually 
enter the quantity of each part. The Bar Code device then 
can download a text file to the \Oz\BCFiles folder at the 
end of the day. 

When you run "Process Bar Code Files" program, the Parts 
Inventory will be reduced by the quantity of each Part 
used. The Parts are automatically attached to the Work 
Order, so the task of WO Completion becomes almost 
painless. The format of the Bar Code files is customizable 
in the Oz "Preferences" section. The new version also adds 
the Work Order Number to the Storeroom Request Screen. When 
a WO Number is specified, all the information concerning 
the Equipment is filled in automatically. Parts requested 
this way are reduced from Inventory instantly, and the 
Parts are automatically added to the "Parts" section of the 
completed WO. This makes the WO Completion process 
significantly easier. 

Version 1.01 also provides an almost mind-boggling 
selection of Cost Reporting options - 629,300 different 
reports. John Urbaniak, Aviar's President, was quoted as 
saying: "No other CMMS on the market has such reporting 
power!" 

Mr. Urbaniak further stated that he was pleased, after 
testing, to find that Oz runs extremely well under Warp 
Server for e-business (Aurora). He said, "Aurora is easy to 
install, fast and reliable. We believe our customers will 
benefit greatly from the speed and power of Oz running on 
Aurora. One of the purposes of a CMMS is to save companies 
money in their maintenance management operations. With Oz 
and Aurora, they will also save time." 

Oz. is featured on Aviar's webpage: 
(http://www.oops-web.com) and is being sold both as a 
turnkey system and software-only directly through Aviar's 
Sales Department. 

Aviar, Inc. was founded in 1983 by Dr. Urbaniak to provide 
top-quality PC software for commercial and industrial 
users. Aviar's OOPS! was first released more than 10 years 
ago and is still in use by companies around the world. In  
recent years, the company has placed most of its focus on 
development of speech-activated systems. 



PRESS ONLY: For interviews with John J. Urbaniak, please 
contact Gwen L. Veneskey at (412) 488-9730 or 
glvenes@ibm.net. Shots of Oz. screens are available in 
.bmp, .jpg or .tif formats upon request. 







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