GM YEAR 2000 TESTING MANUAL
GM is sharing information & procedures with suppliers and general public.
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Requires Adobe Acrobat - 62 pages
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The manufacturing sector has the most to worry about, for its year
2000 problems are more complex, widespread, and difficult to remedy than those in straight-forward computer applications such as accounting and finance. Worse, manufacturing corporations were slow to wake up to the enormity of the task they are belatedly tackling.
Unfounded gloom and doom? Not if you listen to Ralph J. Szygenda, chief information officer at General Motors, whose staff is now feverishly correcting what he calls "catastrophic problems" in every GM plant ...
Attacking the year 2000 problem has exposed another major area of vulnerability for GM: its 100,000 suppliers worldwide. Will all be compliant? Modern manufacturing's mastery of just-in-time parts delivery and business-to-business electronic commerce has created a beast that can bite it. Szygenda knows all too well how, on occasion, labor strife or a problem at a key supplier has shut down GM plants. "Just-in-time delivery has streamlined our supply chain to make it highly sensitive to any interruption," he says. "Production could literally stop at our plants if suppliers' computer systems are not year 2000 compliant.
pathfinder.com
FORTUNE - April 27, 1998
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Last year when I posted this, I received over 100 requests worldwide for the GM Testing Manual. At that time a URL for the testing manual was not readily available, and I had dowloaded a copy which I shared with others. After reading the Senate's Executive Summary, I thought it was worthwhile to re-post the above, particularly since I now have a direct link for people to access.
Here's the Senate's Executive Summary on the Impact of the Year 2000 problem, in case someone missed it:
Message 8120011
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