South Coast Systems, Inc. GENERAL CAPABILITIES SUMMARY

INTRODUCTION South Coast Systems is an Engineering Services firm specializing in the planning, design, integration, and commissioning of Factory Floor Electrical and Control Systems and Integrated Production Supervisory and Data Management Systems. During the past few decades, industrial and commercial facilities owners and managers have been increasingly challenged by evolving technologies and global competition to improve productivity and flexibility through modernization and automation. For the past 29 years South Coast Systems has been helping its clients respond to that challenge with project management, conceptual design, systems integration, detailed engineering, system programming, real-time simulation, construction management and start-up assistance. The firm’s work is executed from two offices. The Kansas City office supports ongoing project work for clients in the Midwest and Mountain States region. The Santa Ana, California office serves accounts in the Western region. Clients on more than 450 diverse projects ranging from plant strategic planning studies to retrofit projects to new plant designs for the following industries and applications have utilized the firm’s experience, with a previous two year average percentage of business as indicated: • Food and Pharmaceuticals 44% • Water and Waste Water Systems 20% • Miscellaneous Automation Applications 15% • Mining and Minerals Processing 13% • Oil and Gas Distribution 8% The company’s business model has always been to avoid retaining a direct sales force, but rather to rely exclusively on referral and repeat work from customers who value the quality and timeliness of the firm’s work. The firm has been quite successful in implementing this plan as demonstrated by the fact that over 80% of current revenue generated is repeat work for clients that the company has been doing business with for at least 10 years. In recent years, improvements computer technology have enabled the company to significantly improve both the cost and quality of its services. Most notably, this technology has also permitted the company to significantly reduce the risk factors shared by owners and control systems integrators when attempting to expedite in house control system testing and field commissioning. This has been accomplished through significant in house investments in control system simulation software tools, which has enabled the company to fully and completely test all projects, regardless of size, to the clients’ satisfaction prior to installation in the field. The company’s enthusiastic embracement of this technology makes it unique among its peers.

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CLIENT SERVICES South Coast Systems’ most valuable assets reside in more than 250 man-years of professional staff experience in engineering management, concept development, design, systems integration and construction. Client services performed by our personnel include project work as follows: • System hardware and software specification preparation, detailed system design, programming and integration of programmable controllers, programming of human- machine interfaces, programming of industrial computers, in office full dynamic client witnessed system testing utilizing state of the art process modeling and simulation tools, field testing and commissioning. • Extensive utilization of company developed control software “toolkits” and device driver libraries, which allow for both timely cost effective implementations of repetitive HMI and PLC control elements. • Project management assistance through all phases from initial design through construction, process validation, start-up and training. • Preparation of electrical power and controls plans and specifications for construction, and evaluation of resulting contractor bids. • Documentation generation including complete CAD drawing production using multi- color pen high resolution plotting of drawings up to “E” size. • On-site electrical construction supervision, with wiring inspection and verification, on- line maintenance and update of as-built status of drawings through networking of CAD facilities, allowing for timely closeout of construction. • Project strategic planning studies, cost benefit analysis of alternative design and construction plans, technology growth projections, work scheduling with associated economic/value analysis to assist clients in the application of the appropriate technology to achieve their strategic objectives. • Presentation of technical seminars and systems training courses for client in-house personnel and/or owners.

SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE The experience of the technical staff covers a broad range of disciplines and project types, enabling project teams to be efficient and effective during all phases of project execution including conceptual, design and implementation, maintenance and support phases. The following brief sampling of specific project exposure is illustrative of the broad experience base of South Coast Systems’ staff: • Implementation of a large PLC/HMI control systems to replace legacy DCS systems in cement plants. Numerous retrofit and upgrade projects executed on raw material handling, raw grinding, raw mill, kiln, finish mill, coal handling and clinker handling systems.

File: CAPAB-6.DOC • Manufacturing batch makeup, material handling and packaging systems for the food processing industry for both wet and dry production lines. • Implementation and maintenance of integrated systems for data management in support of factory floor operations in manufacturing plants including; recipe management, material balance, data collection, production tracking logging and reporting, product quality tracking and integrated on-line maintenance support. • System design, installation and maintenance of an integrated central plant data acquisition and control system at a large university campus. Scope of the applications supported by the system includes; central plant chiller control, campus electrical consumption monitoring, high temperature water distribution control and central plant boiler control. • Implementation and maintenance of integrated PLC/HMI control systems for water and wastewater treatment and distribution facilities with remote supervisory capabilities. • Design, implementation and startup of integrated pharmaceutical precision piece part manufacturing systems utilizing networked robotics, PLCs and computer based operator interfaces, with real-time interface to host manufacturing support systems. • Dry materials handling control systems design, implementation, and startup for both mineral and food grains commodities. • Integration of PLC systems into distributed control systems DCS architectures, and migration of control systems from traditional DCS control systems to newer PLC/MMI architectures. • Design of large multi-building energy management and HVAC control system based on central minicomputer with remote terminals providing access to field devices. Primary application of this design was in multi-building educational campuses. • Electrical systems design for control systems including: 120VAC, 24VDC and communications wiring design, operators and controller(s) panel design, controller I/O detailing and configurations. • High voltage electrical systems design including: 3 phase distributions, switch and breaker location and sizing, MCC panel design, conduit and wire schedules. • Implementation of control, monitoring and alarm systems for tank farm and pipeline pump stations. • Control system for operation of reclamation of oil by-products from waste automotive tires. • Multi-booth, multi-product control systems for automated painting operations with integrated PLC’s and computers in local area network architecture. • Automation systems for petroleum and petro-chemical refining, pipeline, and bulk fuel distribution operations.

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BUSINESS PARTNERS South Coast Systems maintains strategic alliances with companies whose capabilities and/or product offerings complement the core competencies of the South Coast Systems permanent staff. In recent years, this strategy has had a dramatic impact on the quality and breadth of services rendered to all our clients. Currently the strongest alliances are with the companies listed below:

C. J. Schneider Engineering is a full service design-engineering firm with strong credentials and experience in, electrical, mechanical, civil, structural and process control disciplines. SCS has been working cooperatively with CJS on projects in the Midwest region since 1999.

SCS has been utilizing the Intellution family of industrial control system software products since 1985, having completed in excess of 200 projects that contain Intellution products. As a result of this experience, SCS has been qualified by Intellution as a “Solutions Partner”.

SCS has been utilizing the Wonderware family of industrial control system software products since 1994, having completed in excess of 30 projects that contain Wonderware products. As a result of this experience, SCS has been qualified by Wonderware as a “Premier Systems Integrator”.

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CLIENT LOCATIONS Allergan Medical Optics Irvine, CA AMGEN Corp. Thousand Oaks, CA ARCO Products Company Los Angeles, CA; San Diego, CA; Portland, OR; Des Plains, IL Seattle, WA; Sacramento, CA Stockton, CA; Phoenix AZ Amylin Pharmaceuticals Corp. La Jolla, CA Baxter Healthcare Corp. Santa Ana, CA Bechtel Nevada Corp. Las Vegas, NV California State Polytechnic University Pomona, CA Cargill Foods Company Wichita, KS Cemex, Inc. Houston, TX; Victorville, CA City of Corona Corona, CA City of Orange Orange, CA ConAgra Frozen Foods Company Omaha, NE; Marshall, MO Council Bluffs, IA ConAgra Grocery Products Company Trenton, MO Fluor Daniel Intercontinental Sugar Land, TX Fresh Express, Inc. Salinas, CA General Dynamics Corp. Pomona, CA Heinz Pet Products Co. Lawrence, KS, Terminal Island, CA Hewlett Packard Co. San Diego, CA Inland Empire Foods Riverside, CA Kinder Morgan Pipe Line Company San Bernardino, CA; Las Vegas, NV Kraft Foods, Inc. Buena Park, CA; Matoon, IL Langer Juice Co., Inc. Industry, CA LaFarge Corporation Sugar Creek, MO Lockheed Martin Co. Sunnyvale, CA Miller Brewing Co. Irwindale, CA Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. Corona, CA Nestlé USA, Inc. Glendale, CA, Burlington, WI Nestlé Purina Pet Care Jefferson, WI; St. Joseph, MO; Ft. Dodge, IA; Elizabeth City, NC Crete, NE; Allentown, PA Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. Henderson, NV Orville Redenbacher Foods (Div of Con Agra) Valparaiso, IN Peter Pan Foods (Div of Con Agra) Dallas, TX Rosarita Foods (Div of Con Agra) Mesa, AZ Siemens Building Technologies, Inc. Cypress, CA Southern California Edison Rosemead, CA Texaco, Inc. El Monte, CA Union Oil Company of California Los Angeles, CA University of California Irvine, CA U.S. Borax and Chemical Corp. Terminal Island, CA Watkins Engineers and Constructors Greenville, SC

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