GibbsCAM featured at INDEX Corporation's Open House

MOORPARK, CA - October 7, 2005

Gibbs and Associates, developer of GibbsCAM®, software for programming CNC machine tools, announced today that at the invitation of INDEX Corporation, GibbsCAM was featured at the INDEX Open House held September 8th – 9th at Index's corporate facilities in Noblesville, IN. Open house visitors were able to see how GibbsCAM helps users maximize the productivity of their Index machine tools.

“We were extremely pleased to support INDEX at this event,” stated Robb Weinstein, Gibbs and Associates' Senior Vice-President of Sales and Strategic Planning. “Multi-task machine tools represent one of the fastest growing segments of machine tools and INDEX is a key provider worldwide. As a matter of fact, INDEX customers are a growing percentage of GibbsCAM MTM users.”

In today's highly competitive international manufacturing market, the demand for and popularity of multi-task machine tools continues to grow. Multi-task machine tools' ability to completely machine a part without any operator intervention makes them extremely productive, low labor cost machines to operate, which results in increased profitability

Gibbs' participation at this INDEX event is a continuation of a collaborative partnership between the two companies which ensures GibbsCAM supports Index's multi-task machine tools, such as the ABC, G200 and G300 models. GibbsCAM will provide INDEX customers with a powerful NC programming solution able to support the wide variety of multi-task machine tool capabilities and configurations INDEX offers.

About Gibbs and Associates and GibbsCAM
For over twenty years, Gibbs and Associates has been a leader in providing cutting edge CAD/CAM technology, while maintaining its signature ease-of-use and productivity. Powerfully Simple, Simply Powerful is the guiding philosophy at Gibbs. Gibbs believes in empowering the NC programmer, machinist, and manufacturing engineer, not eliminating them. Gibbs' goal is to introduce manufacturers to new technologies and new ways of working that makes their machining easier and their businesses more profitable. To achieve this goal, Gibbs creates tools that are naturally intuitive, graphically interactive, extremely visual, associative, and just plain enjoyable to use. Gibbs provides a total quality solution with the service and support successful customers require.

The current GibbsCAM product line supports 2- through 5-axis milling, turning, mill/turning, multi-task simultaneous machining and wire-EDM. GibbsCAM also provides fully integrated manufacturing modeling capabilities that include 2D, 2.5D, 3D wireframe, surface, and solid modeling. GibbsCAM has received Microsoft's “Designed for Windows XP/2000” certification. GibbsCAM's data exchange capabilities are able to access the broadest range of native and industry standard CAD data formats. GibbsCAM is certified under the Autodesk Inventor Certified Application Program (Inventor R10), is a Solid Edge Certified Select application (Solid Edge V17), and is a SolidWorks Certified CAM Application (SolidWorks 2006). GibbsCAM is either offered or endorsed by a number of leading worldwide control and machine tool manufacturers, including GE Fanuc, Siemens, Fadal, Haas, INDEX, Mazak, and Mitsubishi. Gibbs and Associates distributes its products worldwide through a network of international Resellers. For more information about Gibbs and Associates and its CAM software packages, call 1-800-654-9399, or visit the company on-line at www.GibbsCAM.com .