Denver, Colo., April 10, 2003 - Dingo Maintenance Systems has been demonstrating to a growing list of asset-intensive customers that modern oil analysis technologies can radically reduce the cost of equipment maintenance. For example, one Dingo customer recently saved $231,000 dollars on heavy equipment maintenance . in the first month. To reveal fully the monetary and management benefits of MaintenanceGuy, Dingo's signature condition-monitoring service, the company is offering a free oil analysis evaluation on a first-trial basis.

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This is how the new program works: A maintenance supervisor or technician first logs on to www.dingo.com, clicks on a link offering the free oil sample analysis, and completes a simple registration form. Dingo then mails an oil analysis sample kit and sets up a unique, web-based MaintenanceGuy software account. The customer takes an oil sample from any machine, whether healthy or ailing, and sends it to one of fifteen approved labs. Dingo tests the sample and posts the results to the user's account. This free oil analysis program is limited to one test per company.

"If a company has been experiencing nagging problems with a machine asset," says Dingo's CEO Paul Higgins, "there has never been a better time to look at the diagnostic facts. One of our approved labs will analyze an oil sample without cost or obligation and email Dingo the test results. We will evaluate the test data with our proprietary on-line software and present the results on a secure server connected to the Internet. The customer can then review the machine's status by studying our intuitive graphs, paying particular attention to any alarm conditions."

Dingo's condition-monitoring service, called MaintenanceGuy, fully automates a technique widely used by equipment-asset intensive companies to produce significant savings in maintenance costs. Much like the human equivalent of a blood sample, regular oil samples from a machine can be chemically analyzed to determine equipment health problems. Dingo's Microsoft .NET Internet service allows maintenance planners to view equipment trends and draw conclusions from diagnostic data via any computer connected to the Internet. Color-coded alarms assure quick attention to at-risk equipment.

The online suite creates a central database for equipment condition histories and generates intuitive graphs to help companies identify at-risk equipment and make cost-effective maintenance decisions. Timely equipment condition information reduces costs through component life extension, extended oil drains and breakdown avoidance.

Dingo provides condition-monitoring consulting and software services for asset-intensive companies worldwide.  Customers include Alcoa, BHP Billiton, ConocoPhillips, Kennecott Energy, Lockheed Martin, Minera Escondida, New York Times, Newmont Gold, Peabody Energy, Rio Tinto, and the US Mint and Caterpillar dealerships in Australia and the United States. Dingo also conducts oil analysis education and is the Licensed Noria franchisee for Asia Pacific

Dingo's US offices are located at 6551 South Revere Parkway, Suite #210, Denver, CO, 80111. Tele: (303) 303-662-9103, Fax: 303-662-9269. News releases are also available via the Dingo Home Page at www.dingo.com.

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