MANUFACTURING & PROCESS CONTROL: Embedded Systems (Revised 11/24/97)
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Manufacturers may be the least prepared for third-party year 2000 failures. They depend on parts built and assembled by suppliers, who in turn rely on other suppliers. A supply-chain failure could occur if just one supplier cannot produce a part because of a systems failure. Programmable logic controllers, robotics, paint and steel mixing, production scheduling, bill of material, and just-in-time inventory systems control synchronized production environments. A system failure could result in multiple plant closures and massive layoffs.
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Oh, don't believe ME, that in a shop floor audit of a major US auto manufacturer more than half of the 1700 embedded systems failed? Contact ..... Don't believe ME, that a good number of PBX's are going to fail? Try....
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Manufacturing Systems Magazine: Special Year 2000 Supplement (9/97)
Stories
1 - Something short of disaster
2 - Century crisis
3 - In with the new
4 - The means fit the ends
5 - When 2000 hits the floor
6 - The quicker the better
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"Heavy-duty users of embedded systems such as the manufacturing & process industries are in for a tough time: "You can't just turn off a steel plant"
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Today, even "Year 2000 conscious" manufacturers may face substantial problems in bringing their products to compliance.
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Industry's embedded systems to be hit hard by Year 2000. It is thought that industry will be hit hard by the millennium problem as entire manufacturing planning systems will have to be replaced as well as thousands of embedded control systems.Upgrades are not possible in many cases as systems have been heavily customised...
tagish.co.uk
Control systems in power plants,T&D, and offices all depend on "embedded software" that might fail at the turn of the century. This "Year 2000 Problem" is quite different from the well-publicized Y2K problem in utility business software applications running on mainframe computers. The impact of embedded systems failure, while not known, could potentially be severe and widespread.
epri.com
One in five embedded systems responsible for running critical processes in UK oil, petrochemical, power and aviation manufacturing firms will fail in the year 2000. "It's small and medium-sized factories and firms that we're really worried about," ... Some may not even be aware of the problem or if they are, they lack the financial and technical resources to put it right. EXPLOSION! ... Read the example of what will happen at this one plant if it's fixed.
computerweekly.co.uk
Embedded Industrial Control Systems and the Year 2000 Problem
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The Instrument Society of America's Industrial Computing Magazine's
October edition cover story is about Year 2000, from the perspective of embedded technology on the factory floor.
-Countdown to 2000: isa.org
-Behind the Year 2000 Myth: isa.org
WONDERWARE WHITE PAPER:
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Manufacturing System On-Line Magazine: Info Technology for Mfg Managers:
Main Site:
manufacturingsystems.com
Y2K Specific:
manufacturingsystems.com
List of Items in Office, Manufacturing, Medical & Home
compinfo.co.uk
JOINT POSITIONING STATEMENT: 10 National User Groups (inc New York)
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