SOME CURRENT Y2K WORK: Specific TAVA client names withheld.
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Big BEEF/MILK Supplier for US:
Here's their immediate Y2K problem:
- Milk leaves ranch
- Arrives at Market distributor's dock
- Expiration shows a 00 expiration
- Automatically rejected at the dock and sent back because "milk is 100 years old".
- Milk gets back to company.
- Milk must be tossed because now it really IS old (by the time it took to ship it back & forth).
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Big FOOD Supplier (BFS): Run from Sacramento Office
- TAVA has 19 person team, 4 from here, others from other offices.
- Number of plants across country (Don't know how many factories they're working on now.)
- TAVA is finding 90-92% software compliance.
- Finding 70% hardware compliance (PCS, BIOS, Embedded controllers, alarm systems).
- TAVA is discovering that this company's Unix-based systems have Y2K problems.
Why TAVA is dealing with Unix, I don't know. They believe this to be a generic problem across virtually all Unix systems.
Test was run on one of their manufacturing lines, where date was put to 2000. The whole line shut down. We were told "That scared the cr*p out of senior management!"
Senior management at the BFS instructed plant managers to be "forward looking" but not to simply replace their entire factory if they can avoid it. Point is and I'm paraphrasing the TAVA manager, "senior management really does not have a clue what's going on at the factory floor and what they don't know scares them." TAVA is seeing this management mind-set elsewhere, not only at this company. Factory floor managers are being given more decision making authority as a result but with guidelines.
We were told to look for a contract announcement with the BFS in January. They have asked the BFS if they could announce, but the BFS wants to see some more results from TAVA Y2K work.
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Aerospace Manufacturer
TAVA is doing Y2K work for Aerospace Manufacturer "X". We didn't discuss the specifics on this though.
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IVAX
We didn't discuss the IVAX Y2K work in detail |
