International Source Index, Inc. News Release - 11/27/2002

International Source Index, Inc. and Bentley Nevada Announce Standard Interface Between The Bearing Expert^TM and System 1^TM Software

BUFFALO, New York -- Nov. 27, 2002 -- International Source Index, Inc., creators of The Bearing Expert^TM, and Bently Nevada, the world's leading provider of machinery condition monitoring solutions and authors of System 1^TM Plan Asset Management Software, have announced that a standard interface now exists between these products. Combining the condition monitoring and Decision Support^SM capabilities of the System 1 platform with the extensive bearing data in The Bearing Expert^TM, users can now more easily and rapidly establish alarm levels and perform diagnostics on machines using rolling element bearings. The compatibility of these tools with one another helps customers reduce scheduled maintenance and repairs while eliminating costly downtime, bringing condition monitoring technology to a new level of efficiency and ease of use.

ISI's Bearing Expert^TM, the world's leader in Interchange and Vibration Frequency Data celebrates its 12^th year supporting the MRO industry. With installations world wide in over 2,000 major manufacturing and industrial customer locations, The Bearing Expert^TM incorporates the most extensive rolling element bearing database available today. Features include one million bearings in the interchange, over 200,000 vibration frequencies, quick search by part number, dimension, or bearing type and manufacturer, AFBMA part numbers, and data for over 100 bearing manufacturers worldwide. ISI's newest release of The Bearing Expert highlights bearing diagrams, prefix and suffix descriptions, extended harmonics reporting and widespread additions for both vibration and interchange data.

About International Source Index, Inc.

International Source Index, Inc., authors of The Bearing Expert^TM database have established the standard in bearing and vibration data in the marketplace. Representing over 1 million bearings and 200,000 frequencies for over 100 manufacturers worldwide, ISI serves over 2,000 major manufacturing and industrial customers globally in the power generation, chemical, pharmaceutical, paper, automotive, metals and mining, and other industries. The company is based in Williamsville, New York.

Bently Nevada (www.bently.com), The Plant Asset Management Company^SM, is the world's largest leading supplier of products and services for assisting and ensuring the mechanical and thermodynamic health of industrial machinery. The company maintains nearly 100 offices in the principal industrial centers of 43 countries around the globe and has annual sales exceeding 250 million. It serves a broad base of more than 25,000 global customers in the power generation, petrochemical, metals & mining, pulp & paper, food and pharmaceutical, and other industries. Bently Nevada is a GE Power Systems business (www.gepower.com).

The Bearing Expert^TM is a trademark of International Source Index, Inc.

System 1^TM is a trademark and Decision Support^SM is a service mark of Bently Nevada, LLC.