Mobil Plant Installs Complete MocKingbird Electronic Document and Training
System in One Month.

Houston, TX. February 16, 1995-- Warren-Forthought completed a successful
MocKingbird Miracle Month Project at Mobil's Houston Olefins Plant. In one
month, from January 16th to February 16th, a four person
Warren-Forthought/Mobil team completely installed a computerized process
safety management (PSM) and training system for OSHA, EPA, and DOT
compliance. On the last day of the project the system was in active use
over the plant network. The work performed included:

- Installing a MocKingbird CBT authoring and document control
  workstation.
- Installing a 486 server with Novell Netware 3.12 and 2 gigabyte
  hard drive.
- Installing MocKingbird '95 authoring and network user software.
- Building a custom database for storing all plant documents in
  electronic form.
- Building a custom graphical user interface for direct access to
  all documents.
- Selecting document formats that give viewing times of 3 seconds
  for any document.
- Installing the Warren-Forthought library of interactive CBT courses.
- Installing computer based training (CBT) courses custom written for
  Mobil.
- Installing a Microsoft Access training record database and reporting
  system.
- Installing an interface to the Mobil MSDS CDROM.
- Populating the database with all the plant's P&ID and PFD AutoCad
  drawings.
- Populating the database with all the plant's standard operating
  procedures.
- Populating the database with all the plant's equipment datasheets.
- Incorporating hotlinked screens from the plant's Honeywell control
  system.
- Installing HP4v 11x17 printers that print time-stamped P&ID drawings
  in 30 seconds.
- Training Mobil personnel to operate and maintain all aspects of
  the system.
- Training Mobil personnel to use all Warren-Forthought and third
  party software.

Bruce Warren, President and founder of Warren-Forthought, said "The Miracle
Month is the culmination of nine years of work perfecting our MocKingbird
software. It feels great to see everything click into place in just one
month. This has been my goal for years... to make complex, powerful,
networked software as easy to implement as standard desktop applications.
Corporations have seen too many monster, multi-million dollar computer
projects fail. And, on the other side, piecemeal implementations usually
drag on forever and never get completed. We are the only company that does
the whole job, from writing our own core software, authoring CBT courses,
supplying tested and integrated hardware workstations, to consulting and
technical expertise on hardware, software, and networks. I've talked to
plants that have spent $100,000 just for a consultant's report; nothing
was ever installed."

The critical capability that makes a Miracle Month possible is the
architecture of MocKingbird software that supports simultaneous network
access to all content and tools without using a relational database or
third party viewing software. This is possible because a MocKingbird PSM
system uses Warren-Forthought's LiNX software engine that, all by itself,
does document viewing, high speed printing, authoring and delivery of CBT
courses, and record keeping. Competing PSM software must launch separate
applications to do all these tasks; such as MS Word, Authorware, etc. Each
time a document is viewed or printed or a course is started, another
application must be launched. Many copies of such applications must be
licensed at significant cost Plus, the processing load on the server is
impossibly high on large networks when each user triggers a full
application launch and exit every time a document is viewed or printed.
Universal viewers don't help because they are slow and cannot accurately
display the range of documents needed for a PSM system. MocKingbird
software has been in use over large plant networks for years.

During the Mobil project up to five people at one time would be building,
populating, or using the central MocKingbird database at the same time.
Someone scanning datasheets, another adding menus listing those
datasheets, another converting AutoCAD plot files into PCX files for fast
viewing and printing. Someone else would be printing procedures as digital
paper files while another team member is adding links to connect P&ID
drawings and Honeywell screens together. Everyone was using just one copy
of LiNX software located on the server. The LiNX software never crashed or
locked up the server. No time was lost due to bugs, database flaws, or
backtracking.

Grant Dawson, Warren-Forthought's Project Manager, says " It works because
we provide everything-- the hardware, the software, plus consulting and
hands-on work. We will answer any question and solve any problem that
comes up. This was my first project with Warren-Forthought and at first I
was more skeptical than the customer that we could do all this in one
month. Now I see what the right software and the right expertise can do.
The patented method we use to put hotlinks on drawings, documents, and
menus is amazing. Before working for Warren-Forthought I was involved with
a project in New Zealand that took years and millions of dollars and was
eventually abandoned."

Warren-Forthought delivers a standard MocKingbird Miracle Month starting at
$100,000 including all software, hardware, and services.

Warren-Forthought is a software developer and value added reseller located
near Houston at 1212 North Velasco, Angleton, Texas, (409) 849-1239.
Founded in 1986, the company specializes in software for the oil and gas,
paper and pulp, and chemical industries. The company offers a complete
line of products including $99 CBT courses, custom written CBT modules,
authoring software, and complete multimedia workstations.

Warren-Forthought Inc
1212 North Velasco
Angleton, TX 77515
409-849-1239

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