Ford Selects Teradyne Diagnostic Solutions To Provide Service Instrumentation Hardware

MANCHESTER, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2004--Ford Motor Company has selected Teradyne Diagnostic Solutions, Ltd., a subsidiary of Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE:TER), to develop its newest instrumentation product for Ford service facilities worldwide. Teradyne Diagnostic Solutions has been providing electrical test solutions to Ford Motor Company since 1992 and is currently supporting over 20,000 Worldwide Diagnostic Systems (WDS) that serve as Ford's primary service diagnostic tool.

The open architecture design of the Ford Vehicle Measurement Module (VMM) will allow for integration with Ford's current, as well as future service diagnostic strategies. Its flexibility will provide the Ford service technician with a multitude of diagnostic procedures including:

-- Secondary ignition testing

-- Fuel pressure and leak down tests

-- Injector flow tests

-- Usage of a dual channel oscilloscope

-- Inject signals and test actuators

-- Guided diagnostics

Compared to the previous measurement tool, the VMM will offer the following enhancements:

-- Use with off the shelf user interface devices (e.g. PC)

-- Option to use wireless connectivity for the user interface device

-- Ability to capture more accurate test readings

This vehicle Instrumentation device is part of a complete Teradyne automotive diagnostic solution that consists of hardware, embedded system software and PC software designed to communicate with the vehicle system. The solution is based on a core of service diagnostic solutions developed by Teradyne Diagnostic Solutions.

About Teradyne Diagnostic Solutions

Based in Manchester, England, Teradyne Diagnostic Solutions provides diagnostic support to producers and users of complex electronically controlled vehicles throughout the complete product lifecycle, from design through manufacturing to service. It currently employs over 370 people with offices located worldwide. For more information visit www.teradyne-ds.com.

About Teradyne

Teradyne (NYSE:TER) is the world's largest supplier of Automatic Test Equipment, and a leading supplier of interconnection systems. The company's products deliver competitive advantage to the world's leading semiconductor, electronics, automotive and network systems companies. In 2003, Teradyne had sales of $1.35 billion, and currently employs about 6,100 people worldwide. For more information, visit www.teradyne.com. Teradyne is a trademark of Teradyne, Inc. in the US and other countries.