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To: John Mansfield who wrote (327)12/12/1997 5:10:00 PM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (3) of 810
 
Y2K-EMBEDDED - GIGA Conference - embedded software is often forgotten

'De Automatiseringsgids 12/12/1997':

David Spinks of AEA Technology: in the Y2K projects, IT managers are often responsible for embedded systems also. They think: 'this system does not use a date, so there is no problem'. They will be sorry for thinking that way.'

Ann Coffou of GIGA: the Y2K project will only be succesful when highest management is visibly endorsing the project

She continued: 'do not worry about VCR, elevators. Do worry about systems for industrial production, hart monitors in hospitals, power plants'.

Making an inventory and testing takes months in a medium size company. Great care is needed during testing. Spinks: 'in GB there are only 6000 engineers that can do this. Without carefull testing, the entire plant can be stopped because of the testing. Errors can occur in PLC's, SCADA, measuring equipment on a gas pipeline'.

Philip Collins, responsible for the Y2K project at British Railtrack: 'some people complain about IT people not documenting their software enough. but engineers are much worse'. He states that 'the IT systems will be ready on schedule; but the planning will be exceeded with 6 months because of the embedded software problems.'
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