Comments from Ken Owen, V.P. Business Development
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"Year 2000 failures in embedded systems can come from a number of sources, some very elusive," said Ken Owen, vice president of business development at consultancy TAVA Technologies (Denver).
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FRONT PAGE article in latest Electronic Engineering Times
Prior to joining TAVA
Only now are companies becoming aware of y2k as it concerns manufacturing operations. "Most manufacturing firms have a y2k corporate project in place already," Ken Owen said, "but very few have kicked it in at the operations side of the issue. The problem's been a combination of people in plants thinking it's strictly a downstream corporate/IT problem and the corporate/IT people not being aware of how the systems are running in plants."
memagazine.org
Mechanical Engineering Magazine
"The scope of Year 2000 projects, which tend to be IS-led, often ends at the plant level, except for applications with a financial tie-in, or networking and communications," says Ken Owen, a principal consultant for Fluor Daniel, a systems integration, software, and engineering services company.
manufacturingsystems.com Story 5
ManufacturingSystems Magazine Sept '97
According to [Fluor Daniel Systems Integration Director Ken Owen] there is a huge amount of software in plants and factories which is largely flying under the radar of many corporate Y2K efforts. And then there's that other issue.in the manufacturing environment, the Year 2000 looms both big and ugly.
comlinks.com
ITAA Year 2000 Outlook July '97
Ken Owen, who started a year 2000 consulting unit at Fluor Daniel...
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Bloomberg July '97 article on embedded Y2K problems
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