Rockwell Automation and Flowserve Corporation Align to Provide Flowserve Customers with Integrated Condition-Based Monitoring Solutions

Rockwell Automation will provide Entek condition-based monitoring equipment, software and services as an integrated condition monitoring solution to customers of the Flow Solutions Division of Flowserve Corporation. This unique relationship brings the global Rockwell Automation integrated condition monitoring software, services and technology expertise together with Flowserves pump and sealing systems experience into one integrated customer solution. The combined expertise of these two companies will enhance and develop predictive reliability solutions to Flowserve customers by improving their uptime and reducing maintenance costs.

Agreement with Flow Solutions Division to help Flowserve customers improve uptime and reduce maintenance costs associated with pump and sealing systems

MILWAUKEE, January 23, 2003 - Complete Automation® leader Rockwell Automation will provide Entek condition-based monitoring equipment, software and services as an integrated condition monitoring solution to customers of the Flow Solutions Division of Flowserve Corporation. This unique relationship brings the global Rockwell Automation integrated condition monitoring software, services and technology expertise together with Flowserves pump and sealing systems experience into one integrated customer solution. The combined expertise of these two companies will enhance and develop predictive reliability solutions to Flowserve customers by improving their uptime and reducing maintenance costs.

We have been working with Rockwell Automation for more than a year to combine the strengths and expertise of both companies into a single, integrated package that provides cost-effective solutions to our customers that is unlike anything else in the industry," said Tom Ferguson, president, Flowserve, Flow Solutions Division. This relationship assures our customers of our commitment to quality and our ability to help them improve their operations."
Rockwell Automation will provide products and services to Flowserve as part of an integrated condition-based monitoring package focused on the entire pumping system. Flowserve will be better able to help its customers identify developing faults in equipment so that corrections can be made before they affect production, safety or reliability.

We are excited about the opportunity to provide integrated condition-based monitoring capability to Flow Serve and their customers," explained Mike Laszkiewicz, vice president, Asset Management, Rockwell Automation. By integrating our integrated condition monitoring capability with Flowserve, we are giving Flowserve customers a new capability and the means to immediately improve their performance."

Flowserve Corporation (NYSE:FLS) is one of the worlds leading providers of industrial flow management services. Operating in 34 countries, with pro forma 2001 sales of US $2.4 billion and more than 14,000 employees, the company produces engineered pumps for the process industries, precision mechanical seals, automated and manual quarter-turn valves, control valves and valve actuators, and provides a range of related flow-management services.

Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK) is a world-leading provider of industrial automation power, control and information solutions that help customers meet their manufacturing productivity objectives. The company brings together leading brands in industrial automation for Complete Automation solutions, including Allen-Bradley® controls and engineered services and Rockwell Software® factory management software, Dodge® mechanical power transmission products, and Reliance Electric® motors and drives. The company also is a leading provider of contact management technologies and applications that help companies more efficiently manage interaction with their own customers. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., USA, the company employs about 22,000 people serving customers in more than 80 countries.

For more information on Entek condition-based monitoring software, services and technology, please contact the Rockwell Automation Response Center, 10701 Hampshire Avenue South, Bloomington, Minn., 55438, 800.223.5354, Ext. 1598.
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