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To: Douglas Rushkoff who wrote (6790)12/3/1997 3:32:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston  Read Replies (3) of 31646
 
REPLACE OR REMEDIATE: Laymen's explanation.
There are many, many of what I call, "hi-tech boxes" thoughout a factory floor, on assembly lines. Each "box" performs a very limited and specialized function. Each "box" has instructions embedded within.

You don't buy them off the shelf from ONLY one vendor. You buy them from different vendors. In most every instance, they've been customized for a specific application.

YOUR ENGINEER works with your VENDOR'S ENGINEER to customize each "box" .... To make it work uniquely for YOUR system. There's spec sheets that go back and forth on this.

Whether you Remediate OR Replace:
- You have to know WHERE you currently have WHAT.
- Then you need to know what instructions are BURNED onto that chip. The ONLY way to know this is to pull the "specs".

This is INVENTORY & ASSESSMENT - Why it's so important:
- Figuring out WHERE embedded systems are
- WHAT they do
- HOW they do it (engineering specs)
- How critical the function is, when you're looking at triage.
You can't fix the problem, until you know WHAT/WHERE

You need the CD to do inventory and make a plan. NO plan will be straight replacement throughout a whole plant. It will be a combination of remediation/replacement. Everyone is doing triage. Critical systems addressed first. Secondary systems addressed later.

I'm focusing on the revenue potential of the CD & proprietary database. TPRO will never have enough engineers to fix the immediate Y2K problem everywhere. The problem's too massive. Every engineer they hire will have plenty of work to keep them busy.

Cheryl
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