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Maintenance Connection Named a Finalist in Plant Engineering's 16th Annual Product-of-the-Year Award

Davis, CA – October 1, 2003 - Maintenance Connection, Inc., a Northern California developer of web-based maintenance management software was recently named a finalist in Plant Engineering's 16th Annual Product-of-the-Year award. Plant Engineering Magazine’s annual competition is considered the most prestigious in the Industry. To be selected as a Finalist the product had to be picked from nominations by a panel of judges. Winning products are judged by simplicity of design and for creating an especially useful product for the plant engineer.

About Maintenance Connection
Maintenance Connection is a rapidly growing company leading the way in maintenance management using pure Internet technology. They deliver a full-featured web-based maintenance management (or CMMS) solution including Work Order Tracking, Preventive Maintenance / PM Software, Asset Management, Inventory Tracking, Procedure Library, Labor Scheduling, and Service Requests all available through the Internet using a web browser. Maintenance Connection offers a unique and intuitive user interface built on a robust database infrastructure, all at a highly competitive price point. With an online hosted version for companies with a small or no IT staff and a self-hosted version that allows the organization to manage the database and software in-house, Maintenance Connection has a solution to fit the needs of any maintenance organization. For more information about the company and their products, visit http://www.maintenanceconnection.com.

Contact: Maintenance Connection, Inc., phone: 888-567-3434, fax: 775-255-6324, email: marketing@maintenanceconnection.com.