Nestle Purina Petcare Company Deploying MDT AutoSave As Corporate Standard for Change Management  

Alpharetta, Georgia - November 1, 2006-- MDT (Alpharetta, GA), the change management company, today announced that the Nestle Purina group is deploying MDT's AutoSave software as a group-wide standard for automation change management in manufacturing and process control.

MDT is now installed in over half of Nestle Purina's US facilities, all of which are relying on AutoSave's industry leading change management.  "The fact that we have chosen MDT's AutoSave as the corporate change management solution shows our commitment to protecting our customers and our investors," said Mark Buettner, Director of Automation at the group's headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri.

"The premier task of MDT's AutoSave is to provide a secure, 21CFR Part 11 compliant method of managing changes in our automation systems. As a part of our overall commitment to product quality and production throughput, managing changes in the automation systems used in production of our products is extremely critical," Mr. Buettner continued.

"We are very pleased to be able to extend our cooperation with Nestle Purina Petcare," stated David McKay, MDT's Strategic Account Manager for Nestle.

"Not only does AutoSave provide secure and reliable change management for automation - it also provides a 21 CFR Part 11 and Sarbanes-Oxley compliant audit trail, allowing our customers to automate compliance reporting and reduce the cost of production. All together, MDT AutoSave directly supports over 1000 different automation device and software types, providing a direct interface to our customer's automation systems," continued McKay.

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