Lyons announces GPM, a global performance monitoring system for the quality manufacturing community. The management system will provide senior management with a worldwide, real-time view of current quality performance at each of their supporting factories

Raleigh, NC – April 27, 2007 – Lyons Information Systems, Inc. announced a major upgrade to its successful Lyons Quality Audit Tracking System (LQATS) today.  The Global Performance Monitor (GPM) allows a manufacturer to view worldwide and in real-time a world-wide view of quality performance at each (or selected) product support sites on a single screen. GPM may be viewed by appropriate users using any Microsoft web browser with an internet connection. As one customer described, “It almost makes reports obsolete!”

LQATS manages manufactured product quality audits and inspection information across a manufacturers’ mills, manufacturing centers, suppliers, and distribution centers located anywhere in the world. The real-time, web-based system allows manufacturers to view audit and inspection information prior to suppliers’ shipments, during the manufacturing process, and prior to shipment of finished goods. GPM adds the capability to identify real-time problem spots easily and visually as they develop, to prevent costly manufacturing losses. GPM provides quick visual quality performance evaluation over an enterprise and offers drill down view of the latest product quality audits or inspections of any selected location. This addition to LQATS provides senior management an instant worldwide view of the health of their company from a quality assurance perspective.

About Lyons Information Systems, Inc.® Lyons Information Systems, Inc. is a privately held corporation based in Raleigh, North Carolina. They offer Lyons Quality Audit Tracking System, GradeCard® Supplier Performance Management System, and custom software development for the manufacturing and distribution industries, with a particular focus on the apparel industry. LYONS’ clients include Cintas Corporation and other apparel manufacturers.

For further information contact Ed Lyons at 866-351-4287 (toll free in the US), 919-771-1510, lis@lyonsinfo.com or visit the company’s web site at www.lyonsinfo.com.