Buffalo, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/01/2018 -- Sentient Science has settled with the United States Department of Energy and National Science Foundation (NSF) after four years of litigation. Sentient Science continues to deny allegations that it violated the False Claims Act, but the cost of continued litigation was becoming too great for our small business.

Ward Thomas, CEO and President of Sentient Science said, "After four years of investigation against my company, the NSF Office of Inspector General continued the investigation even though none of the allegations were determined to have violated the False Claims Act. As the investigation remained open, facing another four years of costs to continue the process was becoming too expensive. We accepted the government's offer to settle. I feel it's better to give our great country the $2,675,000 back after the huge investment the U.S. Government has given us rather than give more than that amount in lawyer fees to continue the investigation to fully clear our name of any liability. The process has empowered Sentient Science to learn the back-office repeatable processes we will need to have a successful IPO."

The U.S. Government has been a customer of Sentient Science since 2001 and has awarded more than $30 million to Sentient through the Small Business Innovative Research and Small Technology Transfer Research funding program. The Buffalo-based software as a service company continues to leverage the SBIR/STTR grant programs to enhance capabilities and work with the Departments of Defense and Energy to build materials science-based predictive modeling capabilities for rotorcraft, wind turbines and rail.

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Venturini Is Global Leader on Digitalization

Buffalo, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 04/18/2018 -- Francesco Venturini Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Enel X, has been appointed to the Sentient Science Board of Directors. As the newest board member, Mr. Venturini will be an integral member of the board, bringing more than 20 years of experience in the energy and transportation sectors.

Mr. Venturini currently heads Enel's new Global Business Line, Enel X which explores how, in a period of technological disruption which is entering abruptly into the energy sector, utilities need to redefine their role, transforming themselves into tech companies to swiftly address the new needs of their customers. Enel X in particular aims to provide new solutions and services to residential, industrial and public customers.

Before heading to Enel X, Mr. Venturini was the CEO of Enel Green Power, a position that he held for 3 years making the company one of the best-positioned and more successful operator in the renewable energy sector at the worldwide level.

During his time as CEO in Enel Green Power, he also served as Board President of WindEurope from 2016-2017. As chair of the board, Mr. Venturini pushed heavily for the full and efficient integration of wind energy into electricity markets, while stressing the importance of elaborating a robust renewable energy strategy for the Union, to revamp its leadership in the decarbonisation field. Moreover, during his chairmanship, he stressed also the pivotal role battery energy storage systems can play in stabilizing grids and reducing the huge waste of renewable energy that is curtailed when grids are at capacity. Venturini worked closely with Sentient Science's CEO, Ward Thomas, to lead the board's advocacy efforts and guiding the conversation on digitalization as a strategy to significantly reduce the cost of wind energy.

"When I was on the board at WindEurope, I saw firsthand how the other CEOs in wind embraced Sentient's technology to lower their cost of energy through life extension. I was drawn to their stake in the ground to be the trusted third party to the operator," said Venturini. "Sentient's discovery that there is a 68% difference between physical test models and the failure rates that are actually occurring in the field proves the unleveled playing field between OEM and operator. I am excited to bring my expertise on how to deliver key value drivers like customer success and digitalization to Sentient and to guide and accelerate their IPO aspirations."

"Francesco will be a great addition to the board, bringing strong finance, executive and leadership experience. His proven success in leading a global business and transforming the traditional utility into a digitalization company will serve us well. He is a 'Tony Stark, Iron-man'- like innovator who values the importance of digitalization. His forward thinking will be extremely beneficial as we grow our global business in not just renewables, but in aerospace and rail, too."

In three years of commercial sales, Sentient Science captured 10% market share of the wind industry, and within its current customer base, will be live monitoring about half of the world's wind fleet by 2020.

"We know that digitalization is the path to the future. We saw firsthand the difference between physical test results and the actual impact operational and loading conditions have on the life of a field asset," said Thomas. "The industry has to move out of the stone-age, focusing on the past, and get digital. When we deliver the digital bill of materials to the operator, we build a moat around them, requiring the OEM and suppliers to validate the life and impact their offerings have on the field asset to ensure life extension and long-term sustainment of the fleet."

About Mr. Venturini
Mr. Venturini is a leader in the energy industry and has been with Enel Group since 1997, contributing to the company listing on the New York and Milan Stock Exchanges. He's served in various leadership roles within the Enel organization from Head of Internal Audit to Head of Sales Administration to Head of Finance and Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Enel Green Power. He's based in Rome, Italy today, but was born in New York. He graduated cum laude in Economics from the University La Sapienza of Rome Italy, London School of Business and holds an MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Mr. Venturini completes the five-member board alongside Mr. Thomas, Simon Chong, Managing Director or Georgian Partners, Omar Masri, Partner at Toba Capital, and Brian Sperry, President of Technology Applications. The five-member board holds quarterly meetings on governance, strategy and advisory needs.

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Will Lead Global Operator Network Onboarding within Materials Science-based DigitalClone Live Platform

Buffalo, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/26/2017 -- Alfonso Faubel has joined Sentient Science as Chief Revenue Officer of Energy & President of Europe, reporting to Chief Executive Officer Ward Thomas. His office will be based out of Spain.

Sentient Science offers a cloud-based, materials and data science platform, DigitalClone® Live, for wind operators and suppliers. The software predicts when early crack initiation begins in critical components and systems and provides a platform of supplier-based life extension actions designed to reduce the cost of wind energy by 13% of an operator's revenue. The materials science-based approach offers 10 times the value of big data solutions by offering a 5:1 return on investment, answering when and where failures will occur in a fleet.

Mr. Faubel joins Sentient Science from Alstom-General Electric where he was senior vice president, global sales & marketing power.

"When I worked for the original equipment manufacturer (OEM), I saw first-hand the need for digitalization strategies that would provide our customers, the wind operators, more precise foresight into when and where failures would occur in order to lower their cost of energy to a point where their wind business could compete against other energy sources," said Faubel, noting he was focused previously on reducing the Capital Expenditure line on the cost of Energy.

Faubel will shift focus from OEM to operator, working with the Sentient Science operator network as a trusted 3rd party.

"It was during my time at Alstom GE that I came to realize the enormous potential the wind industry still had in addressing operational (OpEx) and capital expenditure (CapEx) cost reductions, specifically through prognostics. Statistical-based data solutions lack the long-term prognostics needed to change business strategies," Faubel said. "Sentient Science's materials and data science-based software provides significantly more COE reductions for CEOs of Power Generation companies."

Operators with an aging fleet and rapidly declining power purchase agreement pricing, place increased hardships on wind operators. Offshore wind farms experience exponentially higher operations and maintenance costs, which are often located miles offshore in remote and harsh conditions.

"Sentient Science is the only trusted third-party software company that delivers an efficient technological offering for life extension of operational wind turbines based on scientific data-driven asset actions. I look forward to working with the brilliant materials scientists, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence scientists, management team, software developers and sales and marketing professionals at Sentient Science," Faubel said.

Prior to Mr. Faubel's work at Alstom-GE based in Switzerland and France, he was Senior Vice President of the Wind Business based in Barcelona. He joined Alstom in 2009 from Delphi where he was Divisional Vice President & European Managing Director. His professional career includes a variety of global assignments in France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, US and Mexico.

"We welcome Alfonso to our executive team and look forward to his leadership growing our current operator base of 20,000 wind turbine globally to 200,000 by 2020," said Thomas, CEO & President of Sentient Science. "He has a long history building trust with energy operators at Alstom GE, and his expertise will be critical as we expand our software prediction and life extension capabilities to the critical component – bearing – level. He will also take my place as board member of WindEurope and lead the digitalization efforts of the board."

Faubel will be hiring a team in Europe of business development and customer success managers.

Faubel began his career in industrial international sales in 1988 in New York City with Ferrex. In 1990, he joined Accenture based out of Spain, leading a wide range of management consulting cross-industrial projects. In 1993, he transferred to Rome to lead Exens' Structured Financing practice across several civil engineering & infrastructure construction projects worldwide.

In 1996, he joined Delphi based in Germany, where he completed different international assignments in the Automotive Electronics & Safety Industry in Finance and M&A followed by manufacturing plant assignments in Mexico and worldwide HQ in the US. In 2001, he transferred to Paris as a Regional CFO for the Steering Division and in 2005 he was appointed Managing Director for Europe and Member of the Executive Committee and Steering Strategic Counsel.

About Sentient Science
Sentient Science currently monitors and provides life extension actions for 25,000 wind turbines across 230 wind farms globally, simulating 550,000 bearings and 125,000 gears within the DigitalClone Live platform. Sentient Science is expanding its modeling capabilities to include blades, pitch systems and generators.

For more information, visit sentientscience.com.

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Funding to be Used for Key New Hires, Software Platform Enhancements, Entrance into Commercial Aerospace & Rail Markets

Buffalo, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 07/26/2017 -- Sentient Science announced today that Toronto, ON-based growth equity firm, Georgian Partners, will fund $22.5 million in a Series B, growth-stage investment in the materials science-based software as a service company. Sentient's expansion in the wind energy market, providing prognostic health monitoring and life extension actions for fielded wind turbines will soon be available to commercial customers in the aerospace and rail markets.

Capital funds will be used to provide new technical, security and software capabilities within DigitalClone® Live for the continuation of rapid market growth from 20,000 wind turbines to 100,000 globally, and then to 1 million rotating assets as more commercial operators and suppliers in aerospace and rail come on line. Hiring plans include an additional 70 employees, including a chief financial officer, vice president of software, software developers, and sales and marketing staff in the offices located in United States, Europe and China.

"We incentivize our employees with pre-IPO stock options, so we're very strategic in who we bring in as partners. We're very excited and proud to be working with Georgian Partners, who is another important partner on our journey to IPO," said Ward Thomas, CEO & President of Sentient Science. "I am incredibly thankful to our customers in the wind, aerospace and rail markets, and for our brilliant staff and management team who are truly the 'smartest people the room.' Together, they made Q2-2017 our largest sales quarter in our company's history, while promoting clean energy. I would like to thank Simon Chong of Georgian Partners, for his commitment to help us further our agenda to significantly lower the cost to operate equipment through life extension actions. Sentient Science's network effect increases the demand for longer life assets and components, and ultimately changes the way the world buys and sells aftermarket products and services through our SaaS platform. This is all completely differentiated, based on materials science versus just big data from sensors."

Sentient's management team includes Ed Wagner, BS, Chief Digital Officer; Dr. Nathan Bolander, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer; Jason Rios, MBA, VP of Aerospace; Gerald Curtin, MBA, Vice President of Asset Actions and Delivery; and Aaron Russell, MBA, Finance.

"Ward and his impressive team at Sentient Science have a unique technology and business model that lowers the cost of energy through supply and demand integration," said Simon Chong, Managing Partner at Georgian Partners. "Their DigitalClone Live software fits perfectly with our thesis area for artificial intelligence, and we look forward to working with Sentient to expand technical capabilities and added value within the core applications."

This is Sentient Science's third round of funding since its inception in 2001. The United States Federal Government awarded more than $30 million in Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grants for the development of the materials science-based software, which has been used on U.S. Government platforms, including the Hubble Telescope, Joint Strike Fighter and Apache and Blackhawk helicopters. NASA also validated the technology in 2010. Sentient was honored at the White House in 2014 with the Tibbetts Award, and in 2016 with the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Pioneers Award for its rapid commercialization in renewable energy. In 2015, TOBA Capital invested $7 million in Series A funding.

Sentient's scientific team includes computational tribologists, materials scientists, mechanical engineers and data scientists, of whom the company makes available to customers to lower their cost of energy using predictive technologies. Dr. Bolander manages a team of subject-matter experts, including Dr. Raja Pulikollu, Chief Materials Scientist & VP of Implementations; Dr. Adrijan Ribaric, VP of System Technology; Dr. Behrooz Jalalahmadi, VP of Government Research & Development; Dr. Karen Cassidy, VP of Customer Success; and Dr. Nick Weinzapfel, Chief Materials Scientist of Bearing Dynamics.

Sentient Science currently monitors and provides life extension actions for 20,000 wind turbines across 200 wind farms globally, and simulates 440,000 bearings and 100,000 gears within DigitalClone Live.

About Georgian Partners
Georgian Partners is a thesis-driven growth equity firm investing in SaaS-based business software companies exploiting applied artificial intelligence, security first and conversational business. Founded by successful entrepreneurs and technology executives, Georgian Partners leverages our global software expertise to be able to directly impact the success of companies.

For more information, visit http://www.georgianpartners.com.

About Sentient Science
Sentient Science, headquartered in Buffalo, NY, is a trusted third party to the operators of rotating mechanical equipment like wind and gas turbines, providing materials science-based life predictions and life extension actions through its DigitalClone® Live software platform. DigitalClone Live's 3D prognostic watch lists deliver 18-month rolling forecasts of short and long-term prognostics and life extension action recommendations for inventory, maintenance, servicing forecasts and budgeting to the operator. Through its BuyOnLifeTM program, operators can purchase aftermarket parts from the supplier network based on the life impact of the offering. The software lowers the cost of operations across six business areas, operations and maintenance, asset management, supply chain, risk management, new business development and CXO governance. Sentient was founded in 2001, and has been awarded more than $30 Million in Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grants to predict the earliest point in time cracks initiation in the microstructure of critical components under actual operating loading conditions. In 2010, NASA validated the small data approach by comparing computational test results from DigitalClone to 30 years of historical physical test data collected on a helicopter spur gear. The technology was honored in 2014 at the White House with the Tibbett's Award, and the company accepted the 2016 Bloomberg New Energy Finance Pioneers Award for rapid commercial growth in the renewable market.

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Sentient named “New Energy Pioneer” selected from global competition as “game changer” in clean energy

Buffalo, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 04/05/2016 -- Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) today awarded Sentient Science Corporation with the "New Energy Pioneers Award" at the Future of Energy Summit 2016 in New York, N.Y.

A panel of industry and technology experts recognized Sentient as a "game changer" in the clean energy space for its innovative DigitalClone® and DigitalTwin™ technology, which uses materials science to build computational models of rotating machines, like wind turbines, to predict remaining useful life and provide life extension actions. Wind operators using DigitalClone® Live benefit from lower operating costs through small data from Material Science and longer life of their assets, which ultimately provides a lower cost of energy and a competitive differentiation. On a fleet wide basis, savings can result in an increase in revenue by 1 cent per KWh.

The BNEF New Energy Pioneers Awards program, now in its ninth year, provides global recognition and validation from the energy industry's top analysts and global energy leaders, including Michael Bloomberg.

In just 18 months since launching DigitalClone® to the commercial market, Sentient Corporation has 18,000 wind turbines under contract and closed its first round of venture capital funding from TOBA Capital at the end of 2015.

Sentient was chosen from hundreds of early stage companies from around the globe and were assessed on three criteria: innovation, potential to scale and momentum.

Michael Wilshire, selection committee chair and head of analysis and transformation at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, said, "This year, we were impressed by the very strong set of candidates we received for the New Energy Pioneers program, and the range of activities that they cover – including solar, wind, storage, transport, bioenergy, energy smart technologies and machine learning. We were delighted to see the breadth of innovation that is happening in the industry and struck by the impact that those organizations could have on the energy system of the future."

"We made a breakthrough using materials science to predict the future life of wind turbines and provide life extension solutions that reduce the cost of energy to make renewables compete directly with other energy sources," said Ward Thomas, Chief Executive Officer of Sentient Science Corporation. "Today we're working with most of the major U.S. and European operators including NextEra, Duke, NRG, MidAmerican, Acciona, Dong and more."

"We look at the 'DNA' of materials, like you look at the DNA of humans. Based on what we know about materials, we can chart the future failure rates of products in the market and products being designed," continued Thomas. "We applied this knowledge in the wind market and captured 18,000 wind turbines, and now were expanding to the industrial, rail and other markets at companies like Deere, Boeing, and Rolls Royce."

Sentient's DigitalClone® Live uses a small data approach, instead of "big data," to appeal to different budget holders within an organization.

- Operational managers use DigitalClone® Live for their fielded assets that are already showing signs of failure. Sentient provides life extension solutions to keep their assets running until up-tower maintenance can be performed.

- Asset managers use DigitalClone® Live's rolling forecast on the predictive health of their fleet. This 18-month insight allows for preventative maintenance, operational changes and supplier comparisons to achieve 25-to 30-year asset life using our suggested life extension solutions.

- And finally financial stakeholders use it when assessing risk and warranty costs.

"We are disrupting a trillion-dollar supply market by leveraging our scientific and business knowledge, and working with the operators, suppliers and the OEMs as a trusted third party," said Thomas. "By focusing on the operators' success first and remaining independent of suppliers, Sentient has been able to compare and recommend the longest life solutions for extending existing assets and lowering operational costs."

About Sentient Science
Sentient Science was born out of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) need to decode the material genome of rotating components as a way to lower service costs and bring jobs back to the U.S. Sentient products were validated at NASA, which led to four additional years of technical validations before the company moved to Buffalo, N.Y. to begin commercialization.

"Technologies like those developed by Sentient represent the kind of innovation that not only creates jobs but saves companies and the federal government time and money as we look to develop new breakthroughs in engineering and materials science," said New York Senator Charles Schumer.

"The White House honored Sentient with the Tibbett's Award for our SBIR-funded research and development into materials science and the commercial success were created with our products," Thomas said. "Now in 2016, we're being recognized for our commercial success in energy power generation. We're projecting to have 50,000 fielded assets under contract by 2017."

DigitalClone® is a registered trademark and DigitalTwin™ is a trademark of Sentient Science Corporation.

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With DigitalClone®, Adwen has world’s most tested Drivetrain

Buffalo, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 02/23/2016 -- Sentient Science has announced that it has signed an agreement with Adwen to validate the drivetrain for its next generation turbine of 8MW-rated power, which has the largest annual energy production (AEP) on the market with the highest nominal torque drivetrain and largest rotor.

Adwen, the second largest offshore wind turbine manufacturer in 2015 by market share, is a joint venture between France's AREVA and Spain's Gamesa, two global energy leaders that have come together to create a major player in the offshore wind industry.

Under the terms of the agreement, Sentient Science's DigitalClone® computational testing software will be used to further validate the Adwen 8MW platform drivetrain's design and standards.

DigitalClone® is designed to provide an exhaustive and comprehensive validation strategy in which thousands of gearbox validation test points are computationally created within weeks for a fraction of the cost of physical testing. This allows massive amounts of testing points and insights to be evaluated before physical testing begins.

According to Ward Thomas, CEO and President of Sentient Science, "Confidence in 20- to 30- year rotating equipment life is our crucial objective. The world's largest equipment operators, gearbox and bearing manufacturers, as well as lubrication suppliers, are turning to Sentient to confirm that their products will lower the cost of energy by 1 cent per kWh on land and 5 cents per kWh offshore. Sentient is proud to help confirm and validate the system under design and to make sure that Adwen has the world's most tested drivetrain before our friends at Fraunhofer begin their physical testing."

Maite Basurto, Chief Technology Officer of Adwen said, "A front-end to our physical testing process with the newest computational test technology matches with our rigorous test and validation process, always with the final aim of increasing the reliability of the turbine. Using Sentient's DigitalClone® is a first step in our extensive validation program. It will contribute to having a faster certification process and, finally, a more reliable turbine available in serial production in 2018."

The United States government, including National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) and Department of Energy (DoE), has invested over $25 million in DigitalClone® to make it as accurate as physical testing. Today one in ten land-based wind turbines in the world are contracted to use the materials science-based DigitalClone® for Life Prediction & Life Extension, "Buy on Life" supply chain decisions and 30-year risk and failure analysis.

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Dr. Nick Weinzapfel joins Sentient from Schaeffler Bearings as Chief Scientist, Computational Bearing Life

Buffalo, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 01/22/2016 -- Sentient Science, the leader in software solutions to extend the life of mechanical systems, announced today that Dr. Nick Weinzapfel, Ph.D., has joined its team of brilliant scientists as Chief Scientist for Computational Bearings. Dr. Weinzapfel will be responsible for the development and application of bearing prognostics tools within DigitalCloneLive for Operators and DigitalCloneLive for Suppliers. Dr. Weinzapfel will reunite with his colleagues from Purdue University, Dr. Nathan Bolander and Dr. Behrooz Jalalahmadi, all three of whom received their Doctorates of Philosophy from Purdue University.

Bearings are the "microprocessor" of rotating machines. Without the right microprocessor, computers, applications and even the internet cannot operate. The same goes for rotating equipment. It is essential for operators and suppliers to understand bearing behavior today using our three levels of future failure visibility:

- Visibility 1: Now (0 to 12 months) Forecasts what components will fail in the next 90 days, also known as "imminent death." Vice presidents of operations, monitoring and engineering are typically concerned about this.

- Visibility 2: Mid term (18 months to 3 years) What will fail in the midterm and how do I extend life? Vice presidents of assets tend to look at this data. People who budget for the year, forecast every 30 days and plan every 60 days.

- Visibility 3: Long term (3 to 20 years) What is an asset's true life prediction and how can I reduce the risks? Chief executive officers, chief financial officers and vice presidents of risk want to know this information.

This makes choosing the right bearing crucial to all levels of management, because understanding this critical rolling component in a system is the only way to deliver life extension and operating and maintenance (O&M) cost reduction. Understanding the behavior of a bearing is a complex and difficult process. It took Sentient 10 years to perfect its DigitalClone models, and Dr. Weinzapfel, Dr. Bolander and the R&D team will now see it into the future.

Sentient Science, a trusted third party, offers low cost computational testing to operators and suppliers using a materials science-based prognostics simulator that continually runs millions of tests on rotating assets using 8,000 microprocessors, 24-hours a day, seven-days a week, 365-days per year.

"We are ecstatic that Nick has decided to join our team. We've admired his work for quite some time, and we are thrilled that we'll be able to use his expertise in the dynamics and materials science of energy and transportation bearings. We are now engaging bearing suppliers worldwide and making our solutions available to operators across the DigitalClone operator network," said Dr. Nathan Bolander, Chief Technology Officer at Sentient Science. "Bearings are typically the root cause of wind turbine and aerospace failures, and Nick will lead our bearing team so that we can provide the next generation DigitalClone Models with the three levels of visibility within DigtialCloneLive. Nick will introduce Sentient's new 'imminent death' product soon."

Dr. Weinzapfel holds his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and spent the last 3.5 years leading R&D of life extension and asset management technologies at Schaeffler Group, a major bearing supplier for the wind energy industry, before coming to Sentient Science to lead the R&D efforts of bearings applications for DigitalClone Solutions.

"Many of our materials scientists achieved their Ph.Ds. at Purdue University and the University at Buffalo," Bolander noted. "Our plans to keep expanding into new markets while building more partnerships with universities align perfectly with the on boarding of Dr. Weinzapfel. He will make an excellent addition to our talented team of innovators, and I can't wait to see the amazing things that will come from his work."

"It's like coming home," said Dr. Weinzapfel. "I have worked with many members of the Sentient team over the last eight years at Purdue University and also as Chairman of the Bearing Committee at STLE (Society of Tribology and Lubrication Engineers). Relationships are very important to my success and I invite my long-standing colleagues at Schaeffler, Timken and SKF to participate in my bearing research here at Sentient Science."

Sentient Science has doubled its workforce since 2014 and is on trajectory to double again by 2017. Sentient hires world class mechanical engineers, most with Ph.Ds., to help wind turbine operators lower their Levelized Cost of Energy Calculator (LCOE), through their patent-pending materials science-based DigitalClone® life prediction, life extension and Buy On Life products. In just 18 months, Sentient has more than 14,700 gearboxes under contract. Dr. Weinzapfel's research will accelerate that momentum. Sentient's R&D team now totals 13.

About Sentient Science
Sentient Science provides "Always-On" asset testing solutions and "Buy on Life" Supply chain management through its DigitalClone® Life models and DigitalCloneLive® industrial internet network. Sentient's Software as a Service (SaaS) platform performs millions of tests a day to improve new product development and extend the life of fielded assets in the energy and mobile asset markets. Sentient is headquartered in Buffalo, New York.

DigitalClone® is able to calculate the point in time when critical components and systems will fail over its 20+ year life, and make recommendations to extend the life of these components, systems and assets, creating enormous financial value for its customers by reducing operations and maintenance costs and increasing revenue. In June 2014, the White House honored Sentient Science with the SBIR/STTR Tibbetts Award for its DigitalClone® multi-physics prognostic modeling simulator.

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Toba Capital to Fuel Rapid Global Expansion for Sentient Science and its DigitalClone® Asset Life Extension Solution

Buffalo, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 01/15/2016 -- Sentient Science, the leading provider of materials science-based life prediction and extension technology, today announced a significant working capital infusion to add new products to its Wind Turbine Operator Fleet. Toba Capital selected Sentient Science as its first investment in materials science-based prediction software. Sentient has initially focused the "DigitalClone" technology on "Roller Bearing" centric, rotating equipment delivering computational testing and asset management.

This investment will support accelerated growth through added sales, marketing and product investments, along with international expansion. The financing supplements $25 million in Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funding that had previously been competitively won from the Departments of Defense and Energy, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Sentient, which recently went to the Whitehouse to receive the nation's highest technology honor, the Tibbetts Award, will also add Supplier & Logistics services to its rapidly growing fleet of rotating equipment assets. DigitalClone models reduced the cost of energy by 1 cent per kilowatt per hour by providing three levels of asset and budget visibility: currently at six to 36 months and 20-year. DigitalClone is a fundamental innovation in the market, with physical accuracy, high visibility and a low cost, enabling efficient life extension operations and vendor comparisons for mechanical power and drivetrains, including bearings, gears, and lubrication additives.

"Sentient Science's DigitalClone software has eliminated the costs and the lengthy process associated with the physical testing of materials, components, systems and fleets. How would your business be transformed if all of your decisions were tested in real time and virtually for free? Our brilliant team of material scientists, developers and market experts give operators and suppliers simulations of millions of scenarios, tested 24-hours a day, seven-days a week, 365 days per year on every component of their rotating assets. Now, trillions of dollars in bearing-centric spending decisions can be made based on our lifing predictions, lowering the cost of sales and purchasing for our clients, while improving outcomes equal to 13 percent of revenues. That is a huge number," said Ward Thomas, Chairman and CEO of Sentient Science. "We currently have more than 14,700 gearboxes under contract, and this financing accelerates that momentum."

"Sentient Science pushes the envelope of software simulation far into what has been an expensive and wasteful hardware monopoly: testing by physically breaking," said Vinny Smith, founder of Toba Capital. "Sentient's material simulations replace hardware with no loss in accuracy. When they can do the same job, bits beat atoms every time — software is always more scalable and cost-effective than a machined alternative. We at Toba are thrilled to back Ward Thomas, the team of pioneering scientists lead by Dr. Nathan Bolander, and seasoned technology executives including Elias Tavarez and Ed Wagner. We expect to lend significant operational support and investment as Sentient becomes a dominant player in the industrial internet."

Sentient initially deployed and validated its computational testing solutions with the world's largest equipment operator, the Department of Defense, predicting the future behavior of the most complex machines (bearings, jet engines and gearboxes) on the Air Force F-35, the U.S. Army's Apache and Black Hawk rotorcraft, and the Marine Corps' Osprey programs with the world's largest OEMs, including GE, Boeing, United Technologies, Textron and Exxon. Based on the success of those flight certification tests, the Department of Energy requested the use of Sentient's computational testing solution for problematic wind turbine gearboxes, which were failing prematurely in deployment. Sentient turned its attention to the renewables market in late 2014, and in just 15 months, has captured contracts covering over 14,700 gearboxes in the United States, Mexico and Europe. With Toba's investment, Sentient will expand its operations into more countries in Europe and China.

About Sentient Science
Sentient Science provides "Always-On" asset testing solutions and "Buy on Life" Supply chain management through its DigitalClone® Life models and DigitalCloneLive® industrial internet network. Sentient's Software as a Service (SaaS) platform performs millions of tests a day to improve new product development and extend the life of fielded assets in the energy and mobile asset markets. Sentient is headquartered in Buffalo, New York.

DigitalClone® is able to calculate the point in time when critical components and systems will fail over its 20+ year life, and make recommendations to extend the life of these components, systems and assets, creating enormous financial value for its customers by reducing operations and maintenance costs and increasing revenue. In June 2014, the White House honored Sentient Science with the SBIR/STTR Tibbetts Award for its DigitalClone® multi-physics prognostic modeling simulator.

About Toba Capital
Toba Capital is a venture firm focused on enterprise software and infrastructure. Toba backs entrepreneurs building transformative businesses, both as an investor and as an ongoing operational partner. The firm was founded by Vinny Smith, the former CEO of Quest Software.

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Sentient, a Trusted 3rd Party, expands DigitalClone® Computational Testing & Asset Management Software to Lower Cost Per Flight Hour

Buffalo, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 11/03/2015 -- Rotorcraft expert and West Point graduate, Jason Rios, has joined the Sentient Science sales team to help commercialize DigitalCloneLive® into the aerospace and transportation markets.

DigitalCloneLive® is computational testing and asset management solution that has experienced rapid adoption by Wind Energy operators, OEM's, and suppliers. Within 18 months of its introduction, 1 in 10 wind turbines in the world now use DigitalCloneLive to extend asset and component life. Jason Rios will lead the initiative to replicate this success into the aerospace and transportation markets.

"The current fiscal challenges of the global marketplace have created an environment where companies are forced to find and eliminate inefficiencies or risk going out of business," said Jason Rios. "Operators in high-technology industries, such as aerospace and transportation, look for every competitive advantage and they recognize that the product development cycle - with its extremely expensive and arduous testing requirements – offers substantial opportunity to increase efficiency. This is Sentient's core competency. Our DigitalClone technology accelerates product development by providing material science-based simulation tools that enable our customers to efficiently explore a wide range of design options such as use of new materials, surface finishes and changes in lubrication and then rapidly bring those design improvements to market by leveraging computational testing to quickly and accurately validate the improved designs."

"It is awesome to have Jason on board," says Ward Thomas, CEO of Sentient Science. "I've known Jason for many years through partnering with him at Honeywell. His character, accomplishments, education, and experience enables him to build a trusted 3rd party relationship with our customers. As an industry insider, he cares deeply about the industry and its focus on safety and energy efficiency."

"Jason will add thousands of new mobile assets to DigitalCloneLive network," says Eli Tavarez, EVP Global Sales for Sentient Science. "He has valuable experience working not just with the commercial aerospace companies, but also with key military operators as well – providing him with unique insight into the needs of our most advanced customers and users."

Jason Rios is a former U.S. Army Aviation officer, was qualified in the AH64 Apache attack helicopter, and had a very successful military career in various leadership positions. He is a decorated veteran, having been awarded both the Air Medal and Bronze Star for his leadership in combat during Operation Iraqi Freedom. After leaving the military, he joined Honeywell Aerospace and most recently he was responsible for Global Military Applications for the Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) business. Jason received his engineering bachelor of science degree from West Point and will graduate from Auburn University's Executive MBA program in 2017.

DigitalCloneLive® For Aerospace and Transportation Markets
Available for the first time commercially in the aerospace and transportation markets, Sentient's DigitalClone®, material science-based predictive models can perform millions of computational tests per day to deliver new product innovation faster with less risk, lower operating costs through energy efficiency and energy management, weight reduction, increased performance, uptime, and safety for Sentient's customers.

About Sentient Science
Sentient Science, is a trusted 3rd party, headquartered in the Digital Rust Belt of Buffalo, NY, and provides "Always-On" asset testing solutions and "Buy on Life" Supply chain management through its DigitalClone® Life models and DigitalCloneLive® industrial internet network. Sentient's software as a service (SaaS) performs millions of tests a day to improve new product development and to extend the life of fielded asset in the energy and mobile asset markets.

DigitalClone® is able to calculate the point in time when critical components and systems will fail over its 20 year+ life and make recommendations to extend the life of these components, systems and assets, creating enormous financial value for its customer's by reducing operations and maintenance (O&M) costs and increasing revenue. In June 2014, the White House honored Sentient Science with the SBIR/STTR Tibbetts Award for their DigitalClone® multi-physics prognostic modeling simulator, which is now available commercially.

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New prognostic service will provide remaining useful life and life extension control for the GE 1.5 gearbox, main bearing and pitch systems

Buffalo, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 08/05/2015 -- Sentient Science today announced immediate availability of its flagship DigitalClone Live (DCL) Software as a Service (SaaS) for both owner/operators of GE wind turbines and component suppliers of the GE gearboxes. The software will be provided worldwide in conjunction with a series of 13 customer installations throughout North America with a combined GE 1.5 fleet of 7675 gearboxes. After providing over $20 million in value to customers of its DigitalClone Live for Clipper wind turbines, the launch of DigitalClone Live for GE wind turbine owners and suppliers will address the largest portion of the U.S. installed wind turbine fleet. The GE wind turbine is installed with gearboxes from a series of OEM suppliers and Sentient will deliver lifing solutions across the gearbox variations.

DigitalClone Live provides decision support for operations professionals by predicting the "as is" remaining useful life of a gearbox. DigitalClone Live can also simulate and evaluate the lifing outcomes of O&M options such as up-tower component replacements, uprating or derating the gearbox, oil and additive solutions, and other options to extend gearbox life. For the first time operators can prioritize critical maintenance functions and plan capital expenditures over a much longer horizon, lowering their levelized cost of energy (LCOE) and making their fleets more profitable. Contracts for DigitalClone Live are now in place for nearly 20% of the North American wind fleet.

"The GE fleet is the largest wind turbine fleet in North America," said Ward Thomas, CEO of Sentient Science. "Our owner/operator customers requested a roll out strategy that would include all models of wind turbines in their fleets, beginning with the largest installed segment – the GE base. This solution will help double the life of the U.S. GE gearbox fleet by adding decades of additional service and output of these machines."

DigitalClone Live for GE 1.5 Suppliers

With the launch of DigitalClone Live, suppliers will also gain access to a computational model of the GE 1.5 gearbox to run testing evaluations on their components and services and to assess the impact on gearbox life. Suppliers expect to use this service to create the performance reports needed to engage owners/operators for new products and services. Continued Mr. Thomas, "We are constantly testing our customers fielded assets every day, all day, all year; 50,000 bearings, 225,000 gears, and 7,675 oil tests are being simulated providing performance information to owners and operators. We're now making that computational testing environment available to our operator's supplier community, to create optimal life outcomes for the GE 1.5 owners. Ultimately by empowering the operator with their supplier component life data, they will marry the right components with the right assets, creating super configurations of the GE 1.5 gearbox to extend its life and lower the ongoing O&M costs."

About Sentient Science
Sentient Science, headquartered in Buffalo, NY, provides computational performance product testing, life extension, remanufacturing, risk reduction and supply chain services to increase the remaining useful life of industrial assets in power generation and defense markets. For the first time, Sentient Science is able to calculate the point in time when critical components and systems will begin to fail and make recommendations to extend the life of these components, systems and assets, creating enormous financial value for its customers buy reducing operations and maintenance (O&M) costs. In June 2014, the White House honored Sentient Science with the SBIR/STTR Tibbetts Award for their DigitalClone multi-physics prognostic modeling simulator, which is now available commercially.

DigitalClone is a registered trademark of Sentient Science Corporation.

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Sentient’s DigitalClone® technology expected to monitor and deliver Life Prediction & Life Extension on 13,000 assets in 2015

Buffalo, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 05/20/2015 -- Sentient Science welcomed Gerald Curtin today as the Director of Asset Answers. Mr. Curtin is a former GE Wind Product Manager and Parts Product Line/Global Remanufacturing leader. Mr. Curtin brings over 10 years of energy experience to Sentient, creating value through O&M cost reduction and new revenue channels. While at GE, Mr. Curtin focused on the development and launch of GE Wind Turbine and GE Solar products including GE's Full Wrap Warranty Service Agreement and PulsePOINT™ condition monitoring. Most recently, he managed a $50MM GE Wind global aftermarket parts business product line. Mr. Curtin has deep knowledge in product development and new product introduction, asset management, remanufacturing and equipment reliability. His focus will be on delivering the most accurate and low cost asset answers in the least amount of time across the Industrial Internet of things.

Sentient Science has contracted its services to 40% of the North American wind market and is preparing to enter the European energy market by the end of Q2. Mr. Curtin will play a large role in supporting existing and future Sentient Science customers and in meeting the goal of monitoring 13,000 wind turbines by the end of 2015.

According to Gerald Curtin, "At Sentient I see a disruptive technology providing a tremendous value to our customers, supported by a great team. I am thrilled to be able to help lead this company's incredible customer value story."

According to Ward Thomas, President of Sentient Science, "Gerald is both an entrepreneur and a large company manager. At General Electric his experience as product manager for 18,000 GE 1.5 wind turbines, his asset management delivery on 12,000 turbines of GE's PulsePOINT™ CBH-PHM system, and his experience helping GE Energy customers buy aftermarket components and upgrades makes him a valuable asset to our customers as Sentient scales DigitalCloneLive® delivery from 6,000 to 13,000 assets."

About Sentient Science
Sentient Science, headquartered in Buffalo, NY provides computational performance product testing, life extension, remanufacturing, risk reduction and supply chain services to increase the remaining useful life of industrial assets in power generation and defense markets. For the first time, Sentient Science is able to calculate the point in time when critical components and systems will begin to fail and make recommendations to extend the life of these components, systems and assets, creating enormous financial value for its customers buy reducing operations and maintenance (O&M) costs. In June 2014, the White House honored Sentient Science with the SBIR/STTR TIbbetts Award for their DigitaClone® multi-physics prognostic modeling simulator, which is now available commercially.

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Sentient Science reaches first year commercial goal of 5,100 wind turbines under contract; heading to 10,000 for 2015

Buffalo, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 02/24/2015 -- Sentient Science added Elias Tavarez to its senior management team as the new Vice President of Global Sales. Mr. Tavarez brings over 25 years of experience in developing and scaling software company revenues, most recently with Dassault Systemes, a software company that specializes in product lifecycle management (PLM). For most of Tavarez's tenure at Dassault Systemes, he focused on core industries for North America -- Aerospace & Defense, Transportation & Mobility (Automotive), and Industrial Equipment. Prior to Dassault, Mr. Tavarez served as a Vice President for the fourth largest software company in the world, SAP, providing end-to-end solutions for financials, manufacturing, logistics and distribution. Tavarez also served as Vice President for i2 Technologies, helping develop i2's $1B Supply Chain Management business in North America.

According to Ward Thomas, President of Sentient Science, "Our business is expanding and we needed additional senior talent to round out our management team. Sentient started in the defense and aerospace markets and is now in both energy and industrial markets. We expect to begin expansion to Europe this year and will look to Elias for those initial customers and partners."

According to Elias Tavarez, "I've been following the development of Sentient's DigitalClone® services for the past 5 years and finally decided that it was my time and chance to help scale that business to where I think it can grow. The development of the energy business in 2014 showed us all that there are substantial new technologies that have a direct impact on lowering serviceability costs. I plan to be leading that effort to introduce prognostics as the newest and most effective new way to reduce O&M cost for distributed assets."

Sentient Science is focused on supporting wind farm owners to optimize and evaluate their operating strategies with their software service DigitalClone. This SaaS provides real-time insight into gearbox and bearing failure rates, which allows wind turbine operators to predict and extend the life of their assets. Sentient is currently contracted to extend the life of 5,226 Clipper and GE 1.5MW wind turbines in North America, and will be adding additional OEMs like Siemens and Vestas in 2015. Tavarez will be a key aspect in penetrating new markets for Sentient as they provide life extension services across Europe and other energy sectors.

About Sentient Science
Sentient Science, headquartered in Buffalo, NY provides computational performance product testing, life extension, remanufacturing, risk reduction and supply chain services to increase the remaining useful life of industrial assets in power generation and defense markets. For the first time, Sentient Science is able to calculate the point in time when critical components and systems will begin to fail and make recommendations to extend the life of these components, systems and assets, creating enormous financial value for its customers. In June 2014, the White House honored Sentient Science with the SBIR/STTR TIbbetts Award for their DigitaClone multi-physics prognostic modeling simulator, which is now available commercially.

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DigitalClone Live 2.0 now contains Prognostic models to extend the life of GE 1.5 wind turbines

Buffalo, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/29/2014 -- Sentient Science announced today the release of DigitalClone Live 2.0. The software is a computational tool and condition-based monitoring service that helps companies predict and extend the life and performance of critical components in design, testing, procurements and service.

DigitalClone Live was extended to meet the needs of the GE 1.5 owner operators in North America to understand the life and health of their assets and to know the impact of both up-rating their wind turbines or the impact on asset life after up-tower replacement of gearbox components.

DigitalClone Live 2.0 delivers a more modern navigation and user experience allowing the customer better predictive health management and control over their assets. The newest release includes responsive capabilities for an improved viewing experience and enhanced asset reporting allowing the customer to adjust and create specific reports unique to their needs. At the system level, the user is now able to represent and simulate in DigitalClone Live the life extension impact of an up-tower part replacement or the impact of up-rating on asset life and health.

"We created DigitalClone Live 2.0 as a response to customer's requests for additional OEM gearbox systems to be added to the DigitalClone Live service. We are in the process of adding the various GE 1.5 gearbox configurations, and Mitsubishi, Vestas and Gamesa wind turbines. Other OEMs will follow on the Version 2.0 platform in 2015", said Ward Thomas, President of Sentient Science.

In the new version, features have also been added that allow for more flexibility in utilizing prognostic data. The alert center now offers the capability to track each individual alert and action taken as a result, providing the user with an enhanced and up-to-date understanding of the assets health. The life setting control now allows the user to optimize different health reports to understand the life of a wind turbine asset or the entire fleet depending on varying operating conditions.

In DigitalClone Live 2.0 there was a large focus on making the health and alert levels more involved. To accomplish this, the health level of the asset went from a scale of 12-48 months remaining life to a scale of 45 days to 60 months remaining life. Sentient Science has fused their sensor diagnostics into their prognostic models, which now provides customers with more detailed life predictions for short-term operational failure or long-term asset management.

"All of the upgrades and additions to DigitalClone Live 2.0 are aimed at helping our customers extend the life of their fielded assets. By providing them with the most enhanced tools to improve asset life, they will have assets that will run in the field at the lowest operational cost." continued Thomas.

About Sentient Science
Sentient Science, headquartered in Buffalo, NY, is the leading company providing prognostic technology and services that extend the remaining useful life of mechanical systems. Since 2011, Sentient provides technology to predict how cracks initiate in materials and how those cracks grow under real operating conditions. Today, this technology is offered commercially as computational tools and condition-based monitoring services to help companies predict and extend the life and performance of critical components in design, testing, procurement, and service. By interfacing prognostic models through networks to fielded assets for Prognostic Health Management (PHM), Sentient Science supports what GE and others now call the Industrial Internet. Since 2013, Sentient has contracted to provide prognostic and life extension services to over 4,000 wind turbine assets in North America.

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Joshua Kunkel to strengthen energy services during rapid time of growth

Buffalo, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 08/12/2014 -- Sentient Science announced today that Joshua Kunkel has joined the company as Director of Energy Services. Mr. Kunkel brings 10 years of energy and energy finance experience to Sentient Science, most recently with AWS Truepower, a global leader in wind and solar engineering and consulting.

At AWS Truepower, Mr. Kunkel led the global Due Diligence Services team, his team assisted investors and lenders assessing the technical suitability and risk of renewable energy projects. His team assisted on transactions ranging from $50M single asset loans to $1B+ portfolio acquisitions.

Sentient Science is currently focused on assisting wind farm owners to optimize and evaluate their operating strategies with their software solution DigitalClone®. This solution provides real-time insight into gearbox and bearing failure rates, which allows wind turbine operators to predict and extend the life of their assets. Sentient is currently managing 1 GW of wind energy, including most of the Clipper 2.5 MW turbines. Mr. Kunkel will be a key contributor as Sentient Science works closely to manage the GE 1.5MW units throughout North America and as they expand into other turbine models and energy sectors.

"The wind industry is currently in a state where owners and investors have a growing concern over the inability to accurately assess and quantify the remaining useful life of their wind projects, or even the ability to accurately project operation and maintenance costs on a yearly basis," commented Mr. Kunkel.

It's no secret that wind plant owners are not getting the returns they expected 10 years ago. Sentient Science, through their DigitalClone® technology, is giving owners visibility into their operations that has never existed before. They now have real-time insight into gearbox and component predicted failure rates, at a turbine, plant and fleet level. This allows owners to efficiently plan, quantify and predict operations costs, maintenance strategies and remanufacturing needs.

"Sentient is growing at a rate to support the addition of senior management talent to the team", said Ed Wagner, Vice President at Sentient Science. "Our focus on the energy sector means we need to hire more expertise that will help us engage the market effectively. Josh Kunkel begins to round out our energy and Industrial Internet management team."

"The wind is hard enough to predict," stated Mr. Kunkel. "Sentient's technology will help to reduce the uncertainty associated with operational failures and downtime. With decreased operational uncertainty, owners will be able to make decisions that will help their bottom line increase. It's exciting – it's what the industry needs for wind to continue to be competitive year after year in the energy sector."

About Sentient Science
Sentient Science, headquartered in Buffalo, NY provides computational performance product testing, life extension, remanufacturing, risk reduction and supply chain services to increase the remaining useful life of industrial assets in power generation and defense markets. For the first time, Sentient Science is able to calculate the point in time when critical components and systems will begin to fail and make recommendations to extend the life of these components, systems and assets, creating enormous financial value for its customers. In June 2014, the White House honored Sentient Science with the SBIR/STTR TIbbetts Award for their DigitaClone multi-physics prognostic modeling simulator, which is now available commercially.

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Drs. Nathan Bolander and Raja Pulikollu and their engineering teams awarded for breakthrough in universal prognostic modeling

Buffalo, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 08/05/2014 -- The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) presented Sentient Science with the honorable Tibbetts award for the role Sentient Science plays in research and development for the Government and for success in driving innovation into the industrial and energy marketplace. Sentient follows in the footsteps of past winners including Qualcomm, Symantec and iROBOT Corporation.

The Tibbetts Award is named after Roland Tibbetts, who was instrumental in developing the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Tibbetts is the highest award given by the U.S. Government to honor outstanding technical and commercial achievements of small businesses under the SBIR and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs.

"It is the innovative entrepreneurs and high growth businesses like Sentient who help power our economy and move it forward by creating new jobs and making our industries globally competitive," said Maria Contreras-Sweet, SBA Administrator. "Their accomplishments remind us all of how integral the success of high growth small businesses are to making our country more globally competitive."

"I am extremely honored and proud of our team for winning the National Science Foundation Tibbetts Award", said Ward Thomas, President and CEO at Sentient Science. "I would like to thank our customers and partners for supporting Sentient in getting to this milestone. We are fortunate to have the world's best minds in computational product testing and asset life extension. We look forward to continued success as we apply DigitalClone® to the life prediction, extension and remanufacturing of blades and gearboxes in helicopters and wind turbines."

James O'Leary, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Kaydon Corporation and now Co-Chairman of Sentient Science commented, "As Chairman and CEO of Kaydon, I had the opportunity to meet Ward and his team and gain an understanding of Sentient and its life extension technologies. After the sale of Kaydon to SKF late last year, I joined the Board of Sentient to help explore and develop opportunities in the energy, rotating equipment, and friction control industries to reduce enterprise risk and cost, enhance operating efficiencies and contract time to market for the mutual benefit of world-class manufacturers and their customers. This award validates our shared belief in the power of innovative technologies and the impact they bring to our current and future customers and partners."

Ed Wagner, Vice President of Sentient Science credited the U.S. Army, PM Aviation, NAVAIR, Boeing, Bell and Sikorsky for the funding to validate DigitalClone for computational product testing of systems, components and materials, and for computational asset management; together, driving down the cost of new product testing and service ability.

Sentient's Key Partners

The University at Buffalo's Center for Computational Research is a key partner for Sentient Science, enabling the company to deploy multiphysics models and services to commercial and government customers. The University at Buffalo provides access to its supercomputing infrastructure to host DigitalClone models and run prognostic simulations, which allow Sentient Science to scale commercial revenues. This support is made possible through funding from the Division of Science Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR) of the Empire State Development Corporation (ESD) through its High Performance Computing Consortium (hpc2.org) and the New York State Regional Economic Development Council.

First Wind, headquartered in Boston, MA, was the first wind turbine operator to deploy Sentient Science's life extension services for its fleet of Clipper and GE wind turbine gearboxes. As the first commercial customer in wind energy, First Wind uses the service to help better manage their wind assets while providing direction for Sentient's ongoing product development. Today, First Wind is the world leader in deploying the most advanced model-based prognostic health management (PHM) system to extend the life of existing gearboxes and their mechanical components.

Sentient Science credited the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) for its contributions to Sentient's commercialization of its innovative research. In 2011, NYSERDA provided financial support to Sentient to take its technology developed under a Department of Energy SBIR and package it as a commercial product for wind energy operators. Today, this product is helping to extend gearbox life for GE 1.5MW and Clipper 2.5MW Wind power operators in North America.

Sentient Science also thanks Senator Charles E. Schumer for his support of the company's research and development proposals and new asset management facility in Buffalo, NY. For many years, Senator Schumer has been a vocal supporter of Sentient's material science and engineering breakthroughs as a way to save commercial companies and the federal government time and money. With his support and Sentient's recent commercial success, the company has significantly grown its workforce located in Buffalo, NY.

The SBA's SBIR/STTR programs accounted for more than $2.5 billion in FY 2013 in federal research and development funds and are coordinated by the SBA in cooperation with 11 federal agencies.

The award was made on Monday, June 16 at the White House by Associate Administrator Javier Saade and featured guest speaker Dr. Shirley Malcom, Head of Education and Human Resources Programs at American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), former member of the National Science Board, and the policymaking body of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

About Sentient Science
Sentient Science, headquartered in Buffalo, NY provides computational performance product testing, life extension and remanufacturing services to increase the remaining useful life of industrial assets in the energy, heavy machinery and defense markets. For the first time, Sentient Science is able to calculate the point in time when critical components and systems will begin to fail and make recommendations to extend the life of these components, systems and assets, creating enormous financial value for its customers. Under a series of government contracts, Sentient Science built and validated its universal, multi-physics prognostics modeling simulator and is now making these products and services available commercially.

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Fast Growing Life Extension Company Adds Co-Chairman

Buffalo, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 08/01/2014 -- Sentient Science announced today that Mr. James O'Leary has joined the company as Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors. Mr. O'Leary is the former Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Kaydon Corporation, Inc. After the sale of Kaydon to SKF, the world's largest bearing company, Mr. O'Leary joins Sentient with nearly thirty years of strategic managerial experience and leadership in major multinational industrial businesses. While at Kaydon, the company established leadership positions in several key end markets relevant to Sentient, notably wind energy, military rotorcraft and ground vehicles. Mr. O'Leary has a broad and diverse background, with deep experience in operations, finance, capital rising and corporate development.

"We are extremely enthusiastic to strengthen our Board with the addition of Jim O'Leary. He will be a valuable resource for the future, as we take care of our customers, grow our business and deliver DigitalClone as the standard for Industrial Internet models, software and sensors into the Energy Power Generation and Aerospace Industries. This is an exciting time," commented Ward Thomas, President of Sentient Science.

"We now have 1 GW of wind energy under our life extension services including most of the Clipper 2.5MW turbines with the new GE 1.5MW solution growing quickly. Our R&D is expanding with the world's largest fleet operators, the US Navy and US Army, including Boeing Apache and Sikorsky Blackhawk helicopters. Jim will be a key contributor during this time of growth and introduction of new products, including main bearing, pitch bearing, blade solutions, plus new transactional and risk products," commented Edward Wagner, Vice President of Sentient Science.

Mr. O'Leary commented, "As Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Kaydon, I had the opportunity to meet Ward and his world class team and gain an understanding of Sentient and its powerful technologies. During my long tenure in the industrial equipment space, where the cost and risk of failure, downtime and business interruption have become increasingly significant, I saw numerous applications for prognostic asset modeling and computational product testing as a better alternative to our historical industry practices."

O'Leary continued, "After the sale of Kaydon to SKF late last year, I joined the Board of Sentient Science as Co-Chairman to help explore and develop opportunities to utilize our powerful technologies, called DigitalClone®, in the energy, rotating equipment and friction control industries to significantly reduce enterprise risk and cost, enhance operating efficiencies and accelerate the concept-to-commercialization cycle for the mutual benefit of best-in-class manufacturers and their customers. I am looking forward to working with a team of world-class scientists and business people at Sentient, as both Director and Senior Advisor, to further our customers' and partners' long term business objectives."

About Sentient Science
Sentient Science, headquartered in Buffalo, NY provides computational performance product testing, life extension and remanufacturing services to increase the remaining useful life of industrial assets in the energy, heavy machinery and defense markets. For the first time, Sentient Science is able to calculate the point in time when critical components and systems will begin to fail and make recommendations to extend the life of these components, systems and assets, creating enormous financial value for its customers.

Under a series of government contracts, Sentient built and validated its universal, multi-physics prognostics modeling simulator and is now making these products and services available commercially. Sentient Science has been awarded the 2014 Tibbetts Award at the White House, for the role they play in research and development for the government and for the success they've had driving innovation into the asset performance management market.

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Buffalo, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 07/01/2014 -- Today, Sentient Science announced they were awarded a contract with the Air Force (FA8650-14-M-2499) to develop an add on to their DigitalClone® family of software tools that computationally predict the final stages of material, component, and system life for small and long crack effects for both fixed wing and rotorcraft vehicles.

Sentient Science will be working with the Air Force, to apply DigitalClone modeling technology for the later stages of long crack growth. DigitalClone is able to predict the material microstructural crack size and shape as well as applied loading conditions for the three phases of failure – crack nucleation, small crack, and now long crack propagation. This service is designed to maximize the remaining useful life of components and to predict when and how to remanufacture components before they fail. This will allow the US Air Force to reduce inspection and physical test costs by replacing components at the right time, with the right configuration, and vendor for that machine. This breakthrough will save lives by predicting early component failures.

The technology will be reused in the Power Generation market for the life extension of wind turbine gearboxes and blades to maximize the output per kw/hr and double their 2nd life in remanufacturing through "super configurations". Wind Turbine Operator, First Wind, expects a 1cent per kw/hr cost of Energy (COE) reduction on Clipper and GE 1.5 Wind Turbine maintenance as a result.

"Our energy customers told us that squeezing every drop of revenue out of wind turbines is critical. Extending the existing investments in gearbox and blade systems is essential in creating value equal to the existing Production Tax Credit (PTC) while lowering carbon emissions," said, Ward Thomas, President, Sentient Science. "It is remarkable timing that our Air Force customer and Energy customer goals are aligned."

Sentient Science has over ten years of software development experience in material microstructure modeling, fatigue analysis, and life prediction. Sentient is currently providing their prognostic models to aerospace OEMs and a variety of other industries to design their structures and components more efficiently and execute more accurate performance and life analysis.

"As one of the principles at Altair, I am very impressed with Sentient's ability to apply computational microstructure-based life prediction and surface engineering capabilities within the DigitalClone software. I have been working with Sentient over the past year and have seen the R&D and customer adoption. Increasing the accuracy of computational fracture mechanics for short and long crack growth is of importance to Altair," said Brett Chouinard, COO, Altair Engineering.

Sentient Science provides computational performance testing and life extension services to increase the remaining useful life of industrial assets in the energy, heavy machinery, and defense markets. For the first time, Sentient is able to calculate the point in time when critical components and systems will begin to fail and make recommendations to extend the life of these components, systems and assets, creating enormous financial value for its customers.

About Sentient Science
For 12 years under a series of government contracts, Sentient has built and validated its multi-physics prognostics models and is now making these products and services available commercially. Sentient Science, headquartered in Buffalo, NY, has recently won the 2014 Tibbetts Award for the role they play in research and development for the government and for the success they've had driving innovation into the asset performance management market.

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Designed to extend the remaining useful life of wind turbines through the use of Predictive Health Management

Buffalo, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 06/05/2014 -- Today, Sentient Science announced they have reached a computational milestone in predicting the remaining use life of wind turbine gearboxes and other rotating mechanical components throughout North America. In the past six months Sentient has run 1,500,000 gearbox component and system computational tests on the University at Buffalo's Center for Computational Research High Performance Computing Cluster. This infrastructure has allowed Sentient to scale their life extension solutions for wind turbine owners and other industrial systems. This is a significant number of computational tests, compared to traditional methods for O&M planning, including conditional-based maintenance and physical testing of critical components.

"The work we are doing is very new to the industry; many companies do other simulations, but no one is currently doing computational prognostics and life extension. Our relationship with the University at Buffalo, particularly the Center for Computational Research (CCR) has played a major role in the rapid growth of our company especially in the energy sectors. By utilizing 8,000 processors at the Center for Computational Research, we are able to provide our customers with the computational testing services that they need to extend the life of their assets before failure," said Ward Thomas, President and CEO of Sentient Corporation.

Sentient is providing life extension solutions for GE 1.5 MW wind turbines, Clipper 2.5 MW wind turbines, BP, First Wind, Penoles Energy, John Deere, Sikorsky Aircraft, Energy Northwest, Boeing, Minnesota Power, Westar, Moog, the National Science Foundation, US Army, US Navy, US Air force and others.

"In addition to supporting research and education, one of CCR's core missions is economic development. We are very pleased to be able to provide a leading-edge, high-tech company, such as Sentient, with this level of support and to see firsthand how it is able to help transform their technology. Thanks to our recent Empire State Development award, we look forward in the very near future to installing a large compute cluster that is designed specifically to support industrial users, such as Sentient," said Dr. Thomas Furlani, Director of UB's CCR.

About Sentient Science:
Sentient Science, headquartered in Buffalo, N.Y, is the leading company providing prognostic technology services that extend the remaining useful life of mechanical systems. Since 2011, Sentient provides technology to predict how cracks initiate in materials and how those cracks grow under real operating conditions. Today, this technology is offered commercially as computational tools and predictive health monitoring services to help companies extend the life and performance of critical components and systems in design, testing, procurement, and service. By interfacing prognostics models through private networks to fielded assets for Prognostics Health Management (PHM), Sentient Science supports what GE and others now call the Industrial Internet.

About the Center for Computational Research:
The Center for Computational Research (CCR), part of the University at Buffalo (UB) is a leading academic supercomputing facility. CCR maintains a high-performance computing environment, high-end visualization laboratories, and support staff with expertise in computing, visualization, and networking. The mission of CCR is to (1) enable research and scholarship at UB by providing faculty with access to high-performance computing and visualization resources, (2) provide education, outreach, and training in Western New York, and (3) foster economic development and job creation in Western New York by providing local industry with access to advanced computing resources, including hardware, software and consulting services.

For more on the relationship between the University at Buffalo and Sentient Science download our case study here.

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Buffalo, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 04/17/2014 -- Sentient Science today announced that they have implemented a new webinar series for the 2014 year.

This series will include three main discussion topics per calendar quarter in the manufacturing sector: prognostic technology advances, life extension solutions for mechanical systems, and asset operational improvements using the Industrial Internet. The series will allow industry professionals the opportunity to engage and ask questions to Sentient Science's team of PhD scientists and subject matter experts.

"We started hosting webinars about a year ago and they were by far our most popular program. The number of registrants nearly tripled in just a short few months. Webinars give us a chance to learn and understand what problems our customers are having, and allows us to access the best solutions for them. We focus on making the sessions a two-way conversation and we like to give our customers and prospects the chance to engage and ask questions." Said Ed Wagner, VP Customers and Solutions at Sentient Science.

Join us for our next webinar on April 23rd from 1PM to 2PM EDT on A Step By Step Approach to Predict Fatigue and Wear Failure, Register Today!

Upcoming webairs are listed here, and include:

Multi-Physics Modeling: A Step By Step Approach to Predict Fatigue and Wear Failure and Remaining Useful Life in Mechanical Systems by Dr. Bolander

Gearbox Life Extension: Improving Rotorcraft Drivetrain Life with Computational Testing and Asset Management by Dr. Behrooz Jalalahmadi

The Industrial Internet: Applying a New Generation of Prognostics Across the Industrial Internet to Predict Asset Life and to Better Service Distributed Assets by Ward Thomas

About Sentient Science
Sentient Science, headquartered in Buffalo, NY, is the leading company providing prognostic technology and services that extend the remaining useful life of mechanical systems. Since 2011, Sentient provides technology to predict how cracks initiate in materials and how those cracks grow under real operating conditions. Today, this technology is offered commercially as computational tools and condition-based monitoring services to help companies predict and extend the life and performance of critical components and systems in design, testing, procurement, and service. By interfacing prognostic models through the Internet to fielded assets for Prognostic Health Management (PHM), Sentient Science supports what GE and others now call the Industrial Internet.

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Buffalo, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 04/03/2014 -- Today, Sentient Science announced that thirteen new commercial and government customers chose DigitalClone™ to predict and extend the life of their mechanical equipment across the Industrial Internet. John Deere, BP, Sikorsky Aircraft, Energy Northwest, Boeing, Minnesota Power, Westar, Penoles, the National Science Foundation, US Army, US Navy, US Air Force and Moog signed new contracts to use DigitalClone prognostics to extend their product life in design, testing, and field operations.

"We are extremely excited about the new customer relationships created over the past quarter. We are pleased to enable our customers, both new and repeat; to have the worlds most tested products with the lowest operational costs. Our computational testing and asset management software and sensors also provide product life extension and performance enhancements," said Ward Thomas, President and CEO, Sentient Science.

About Sentient Science
Sentient Science, headquartered in Buffalo, NY, is the leading company providing prognostic technology and services that extend the remaining useful life of mechanical systems. Since 2011, Sentient provides technology to predict how cracks initiate in materials and how those cracks grow under real operating conditions. Today, this technology is offered commercially as computational tools and condition-based monitoring services to help companies predict and extend the life and performance of critical components and systems in design, testing, procurement, and service. By interfacing prognostic models through the Internet to fielded assets for Prognostic Health Management (PHM), Sentient Science supports what GE and others now call the Industrial Internet.

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Innovative Software Company Adds Finance Expertise to Their Rapidly Growing Team

Buffalo, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 03/20/2014 -- Sentient Science announced today that Robert J. Lemen has joined their growing team as the new Chief Financial Officer. Lemen brings over thirty years of financial experience and will have responsibility for accounting, cash management, operations, and human resources , including expansion capital planning.

Lemen started his career as an Accountant in manufacturing at Eastman Kodak Company. After a series of progressively more responsible positions, he was named Director of Finance for the Digital Camera business unit. In the eight years in this position, he oversaw its revenue growth from $200M to over $2B. Prior to joining Sentient Science, Lemen was the Chief Financial Officer at Impact Technologies LLC for five years and was responsible for accounting, contract administration, purchasing, HR, and IT until Impact Technologies was acquired by Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. He remained with Sikorsky for two more years. Lemen graduated with an MBA in Finance from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

"This is a very exciting time for our team. In the past three years, we have relocated our headquarters to Buffalo N.Y, won eleven commercial deals, and successfully deployed DigitalClone Live to monitor and extend the life of 218 Wind Turbines every day. In a time of rapid growth, it is critical to have a leader like Lemen to guide our team to a continued path of success," stated Ward Thomas, President and CEO, Sentient Science.

About Sentient Science
Sentient Science, founded in 2001, is an independent company based both in New York and Idaho. It uses its proprietary software and sensor technology to deploy patent pending algorithms that can predict, with a high degree of accuracy, the future life of a component based on its composition material. Additionally and uniquely, the company allows true what-if capability as its users can "test" the implication of various compositions and lubricants before the component exists and while it is in a virtual state. The Sentient Science team, composed by a majority of PhD's, is committed to developing technology that cost effectively improves rotating machinery design, testing, manufacturing, and maintenance.

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Sentient Science, using its prognostic data models, sensors and processors, can monitor and predict the remaining life of Wind Turbine Gearboxes in First Wind’s 218 wind turbines, where installed.

Buffalo, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 12/16/2013 -- First Wind (Boston, MA.) and Sentient Science (Buffalo, NY.) have signed a ten (10) year agreement to deploy a new generation of autonomous, predictive, condition maintenance, monitoring systems that enable First Wind to monitor the life of their wind turbines. The new capability, developed by Sentient Science, will calculate the remaining useful life of 150 Clipper Wind Liberty 2.5MW turbine gearboxes and 68 out-of-warranty GE 1.5MW SLE wind turbine gearboxes. Sentient Science will deploy its new cloud-based prediction software and sensor products that feature Sentient's DigitalCloneLive technology. DigitalCloneLive was developed by Sentient Science in partnership with the US Military. After 10 years of Federal investment and validation, Sentient successfully adapted the technology forcommercial applications with additional funding from several federal sources and with a grant from the New York State R&D Authority.

The system is now operational and is the first of its kind in the country.

"We provide First Wind with state-of-the-art technology to extract reliable information containing the status of their gearbox assets and potential options for extending the life of those assets", said Ward Thomas, CEO of Sentient Science. "Our solutions provide First Wind with a low cost, out-of-the-box, solution to get high level value from condition-based maintenance operations without the time, cost and overhead associated with conventional diagnostics-based solutions".

According to Michael Alvarez, President and Chief Financial Officer at First Wind, "We selected Sentient because their solution helps manage the variability of our gearbox remanufacturing requirements that has been historically problematic in this industry.This will allow us to better financially manage our assets."

According to Senator Charles Schumer, "Over the years I've fought to secure funding for Sentient Science through the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy and NYSERDA to help Sentient apply their exciting DigitalClone technology to a variety of projects. Technologies like those developed by Sentient represent the kind of innovation that not only creates jobs but save companies and the federal government valuable time and money as we look to develop new breakthroughs in engineering and material sciences."

About Sentient Science
Sentient Science, founded in 2001, is an independent company based both in New York and Idaho. It uses its proprietary software and sensor technology to deploy patent pending algorithms that can predict, with a high degree of accuracy, the future life of a component based on its composition material. Additionally and uniquely the company allows a true what-if capability as its users can "test" the implication of various compositions and lubricants before the component exists and while it is in a virtual state. The Sentient team, composed by a majority of PHD's is committed to developing technology that cost effectively improves machinery design, testing, manufacturing, and maintenance.

First Wind is an independent North American renewable energy company focused on the development, financing, construction, ownership and operation of utility-scale power projects in the United States. Based in Boston, First Wind has developed and operates 980 megawatts (MW) of generating capacity at 16 wind energy projects in Maine, New York, Vermont, Utah, Washington and Hawaii.

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