Press Release

GE Transportation Systems Selects RT-LAB Engineering Simulators to Develop New
Auxiliary Power Controllers for Locomotives

MONTREAL, May 27, 2003 - Opal-RT Technologies Inc. (www.opal-rt.com), the world leader in distributed real-time simulation on PC-based platforms, today announced that General Electric Transportation Systems (GETS), after a very successful initial project with their first RT-LAB Engineering Simulator, has added five more systems to help develop new auxiliary power controllers on their locomotives.

The Auxiliary Panel upgrade team at GETS first purchased RT-LAB a year ago for rapid control prototyping and panel hardware/software integration testing at the component level. As the project progressed, the team wanted to leverage the technology in to their hardware-in-the-loop system simulator for automated regression and system anomaly testing.

With the distributed computational power of RT-LAB, the team will be able to achieve the real-time fidelity needed, and its open architecture allows them to readily integrate the technology into their own real-time systems.

"We chose RT-LAB because of its open architecture, its ability to reuse existing components, and that it has been proven to reduce our time to market." said Donald Mackellar, Senior Lead Software Engineer, Controls and Software Systems, GETS, "RT-LAB reduced our engineering hours by allowing us to reuse, not re-invent".

For this phase in the project, GETS has purchased five RT-LAB Engineering Simulators. They anticipate investing in a further five systems for the next phase, slated for January 2004.

About Opal-RT Technologies Inc.
Opal-RT provides software, hardware, and related solutions for real-time simulation applications, with the aim of enabling real-time parallel processing through flexible and affordable technologies.
The company offers a full range of engineering simulation products - from enabling technologies to turnkey engineering simulators - and consulting services that include systems integration, software development, simulation and modeling, problem-solving, and training. Opal-RT's core expertise is in distributed hard-real-time simulation, with experienced engineers designing real-time simulators for automotive, electrical power, aerospace, robotics, and other industries where fidelity and fault tolerance requirements push rapid prototyping and hardware-in-the-loop testing to their limits. Opal-RT's unique approach integrates parallel, distributed computing with commercial-off-the-shelf technologies. The resulting RT-LAB product range enables customers to develop simulations quickly, easily, affordably, and competitively. For more information about Opal-RT's range of Engineering Simulators and Distributed Processing Tools, see www.opal-rt.com.

About RT-LAB
RT-LAB is the real-time technology that revolutionizes the way model-based design is performed within the engineering organization. Through its openness, RT-LAB has the flexibility to be applied to any simulation and control problem, and scalability to provide a low-risk entry point for any application, allowing the developer to add computation power where and when needed-whether to dramatically speed up simulations or for real-time hardware-in-the-loop applications.

About GETS
GE Transportation Systems (NYSE:GE) (www.getransportation.com) is one of the world's leading suppliers to the railroad, transit, and mining industries, providing freight and passenger locomotives, motorized drive systems for mining trucks and drills, railway signaling and communications systems, valued added services, and information technology solutions to its customers.

Contact

Kirsty Whitefield
Tel: 1-877-935-2323, x235
Email: kirsty.whitefield@opal-rt.com