Coeur d’Alene, ID, November 7, 2008—Through a partnership with James Industries, Esterline Advanced Input Systems provides engineering and production manufacturing of custom user interface and control panel assembles to the gaming industry.

John Blouin, President of James Industries comments, “We’ve engaged with Advanced Input and utilized their tremendous engineering, manufacturing, and test expertise in supporting a new and innovative OLED button technology that is incorporated in a Dynamic Gaming Panel™ which will be prominently displayed at the G2E show in Las Vegas November 18-20. In addition, Advanced Input continues to explore new button technologies which would increase performance and life for gaming control panels.”

Don Sinclair, VP of Advanced Input’s gaming business unit states, “Advanced input has made significant investments to support the Server Based future of gaming worldwide and is at the forefront of delivering technology to meet and exceed the challenges that networked gaming will present.”

Advanced Input has manufactured many of the world’s most complex, fine-featured input devices. Producing a custom user interface device to the Nevada Gaming Commission standards requires a comprehensive set of deliverables and a proven methodology for manufacturing that makes gaming industry device outcomes reliable, predictable, and cost effective. This methodology ultimately reduces the gaming OEM’s design-through-production cycle. Value added services provided by Advanced Input include Mechanical, Electrical, Firmware, Reliability and Compliance engineering along with Prototyping, Integration and Product Life Cycle management.

Advanced Input Systems a wholly-owned subsidiary of EsterlineTechnologies Corporation, manufactures specialized keyboards, standard and custom control panels and input systems. Esterline (www.esterline.com) is a leading specialty manufacturer of highly engineered products.

Contact: Robert Jibby
Advanced Input Systems
208 765-8000 ext 1385
rjibby@advanced-input.com