INDEX-EMBEDDED I - Index to embedded software Y2K issues...
...that I found interesting.
Changed 3/28/1998
General:
- Searches
- FAA
- IEE
- UK Railtrack
- Embedded systems companies
- Health and Safety
- Utilities
- Automotive industry
- Supply chain
- Apron services
Links to interesting sites:
Message 3715174
INDEX-Europe 15/3/1998
Message 3715224
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Searches
My general search page, regularly updated:
Message 3708836
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FAA - Federal Aviation Agency
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) continues to be at significant risk of system failure.
Message 3791489
GAO report: ' Observations on FAA's Modernization Program
Message 3708985
3/1998
FAA - 'Now try to debug something like that!'
Found on C.S.Y2K, thank to Jim Cobbs. Sample of production code containing some stuff coded without assembler.
'The problem is that the date functions are not in programming languages, like Fortran or Cobol, but in machine language -- strings of ones and zeros more basic to the computer than even the operating system'
Message 3176008
The main concern is actually about the air traffic control
It seems that not only the US FAA is in big trouble; but also the UK Air traffic control (CAA it is called I think) :
Message 3311151
news.bbc.co.uk
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IEE
IEE : '"SMEs" - smaller companies which may not have the expertise to examine or modify their system'
iee.org.uk
IEE guide online!: 'The Millennium Problem in Embedded Systems'
iee.org.uk
I like this one! 'œ16,606.25 Estimated saving œ 4.0 M'
iee.org.uk
Message 3220256
'The following item is given as a cautionary tale
Planning Liaison Unit for Navel Development and General Engineering
Transcript of Defect Analysis Meeting held on: 05/01/2000'
US lagging UK in awareness on Y2K in embedded software - II
fei.org.uk
'The Federation of the Electronics Industry (FEI) is the lead UK Trade Association for companies in the Information Technology, Communications and Electronics Industries, in Defence and Civil Electronics and in Office Equipment and Furniture. '
fei.org.uk
Links that the IEE finds helpful regarding Y2K
iee.org.uk
long post; TECHNICAL but VERY INTERESTING : IEE ADDENDA to 'The Millennium Problem in Embedded Systems'
Message 3371945
iee.org.uk
This is a very detailed and comprehensive update to the IEE guide on y2k in embedded systems.
IEE is the Institution of Electrical Engineers; based in the U
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UK RAILTRACK
UK: Rail industry bands together to beat millennium bug
railtrack.co.uk
19 November 1997
Senior rail chiefs have voted overwhelmingly to create a cross-industry body to solve potential problems caused by the millennium bug.
Message 3221037
IEE and British Railtrack training program: 'accredited by both the IEE...'
railtrack.co.uk
This gives some idea of the status of the IEE.
Message 3221163
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EMBEDDED SOFTWARE COMPANIES
Some embedded software co's - all participating in y2k discussions
control.com
Message 3283531
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HEALTH AND SAFETY
UK: the NHS Executive Year 2000 Team
Interesting site. Discussion forum will be implemented.
imc.exec.nhs.uk
'...we'll have to take our vendor's certification that it's year 2000-compliant as gospel,'
njo.com
Testing in hospitals
Message 3734457
'The money will help keep vital computer-driven medical
equipment such as heart monitors'
'March 17, 1998
Message 3748025
'The money will help keep vital computer-driven medical
equipment such as heart monitors'
Message 3748025
'...we'll have to take our vendor's certification that it's year 2000-compliant as gospel,'
Message 3734430
3/1998
FDA Y2K guidance
Message 3716799
Comparison of two guides on testing embedded systems: HSE's and IEE's. By Ian Hugo.
Message 3635924
UK HSE report - Martins: ' this report is phenomenal'
Message 3632578
Healthcare Info and Mgnt System Society: "Avoid hospitals around 2000 ...It might just save your life."
Message 3634770
UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
hsebooks.co.uk
Message 3289184
HSE will issue guidance on this topic in March 1998. This guidance will be free and available from the Internet (address http:/www.open.gov.uk/hse/hsehome.htm) and as a leaflet.
Safety systems face millennium shutdown
computerweekly.co.uk
Message 3289166
Valley Health System Year 2000 Project: Impact Analysis also for embedded software. From:
year2000.com
Message 3339049
'Patient care to suffer as NHS fixes millennium bug'
computerweekly.co.uk
Message 3489066
UK: Health and safety concerns for Y2K
pa.press.net
'Fears are strong that the year 2000 computer bug poses real threats to the health and safety of workers in thousands of companies in the UK, according to a new report from an official watchdog.
Message 3448934
Medical Devices and Equipment Compliance
pc47.cee.hw.ac.uk
'Medical Devices and Equipment Compliance
'Chances are, you'll be at the hospital on equipment patrol.'
amhpi.com.
amhpi.com :
'About the American Society for Healthcare Materials Management
EXCELLENT!: UK NHS Executive Year 2000 Team site
Message 3539833
Detailed description of Y2K status; examples in healthcare
'According to a recent Gartner Group survey of Industry responses to the problem, Healthcare ranked near the bottom of all vertical industries with respect to their Year 2000 activity: a whopping 88% was still in the "awareness" phase'
Message 3539695
Detailed description of Y2K status; examples in healthcare
Message 3539695
Utility in Auckland
Auckland report
Message 3704770
Auckland: 'senior staff didn't panic early enough'
Message 3669232
Auckland 'Another excellent press release from Mercury
mercury.co.nz'
Status, pictures, maps showing the power lines.... gripping realistic picture of current
situation.
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UTILITIES
`Most nuclear reactors can not start up (and then produce power), unless they initially get power from somewhere else
Message 3797173
Electric Utility Website EUY2K: Some highlights
Message 3796038
Feb.10 1997 Informationweek - Pacificorp
'Kappelman says government regulators should mandate deadlines for certain businesses, such as utilities and manufacturing, to fix not only software code but also equipment with embedded chips programmed with two-digit years.
Message 3728055
Electric Utility Website EUY2K: Some highlights
Message 3796038
'Y2K compliance means that the entire infrastructure has been tested as a system.
Message 3791506
3/1998
TECHNICAL From: 'Nuclear Utilities Software Management Group'-site
Message 3715099
EPRI: Second Workshop on Y2K Embedded Microprocessor
Problems in the Electric Power Industry
May 4-7, 1998
Message 3711857
EPRI Research Questionnaire: will there be electrical power?
epri.com
Message 3010141
EPRI Electrical Power Research Institute Y2K site - long post
epriweb.com
Message 3294734
EPRI Research Questionnaire: will there be electrical power?
epri.com
Message 3010141
From Rick Cowles well known site on utilities: 'the proposed GL is much stronger than the industry anticipated'
Message 3294495
'the industry needs to understand the intense pressure that the NRC is feeling on the issue'
'...one electric company that's got the guts to publicly recognize
that Y2K's an issue for them'
Rick Cowles, 16/10/1997 on C.S.Y2K
Message 3168272
Questions to be asked to your local electric company
Message 3125740
Y2K-EMBEDDED - the local General Electric plant in Salem, Va had to shut down for an extra week'
Message 3124716
Utility Y2K project in SW of GB
Message 3017136
swebuk.com
Message 3017120
'A priority is updating computer systems that control power-plant operations'
From the Columbus Dispatch, Ohio
dispatch.com
Message 3311107
'NRC GENERIC LETTER NO. 98-XX:
YEAR 2000 READINESS OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS
AT NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS'
News on the NRC - Nuclear Regulatory Commission:
nrc.gov
Message 3314692
Utilities zero in on Year 2000 problems
stlnet.com.
'Utilities zero in on Year 2000 problem
This seems to be a starting point for an inventory; but it has not progressed much up till now, IMO.
Message 3553059
epriweb.com
Ed Yourdon Replies to a Critic - also on electric utilities
'1998-03-02 12:00:02
There are approx 9,000 electric utility plants in the U.S., including 108 nuclear plants, and at the present time (Feb 25, 1998), NONE of them are Y2K compliant. None.'
Message 3576296
American Public Power Association - conference: Y2k issues will be a major topic of discussion'
Message 3612686
When: March 15 - 19, 1998
Frightening reading: Rick Cowles on Y2K status in the utilities
Cowles is the authority on Y2K in the electric utility industry.
Message 3508108
Feb/1998
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Automotive industry
AIAG: "they are bringing in European and Japanese automakers to broaden the initiative."
Message 3662387
3/98
'The undertaking by the automotive industry via AIAG is massive. With nearly 50 000 Tier-1 suppliers and 500 000 total suppliers throughout the chain...'
'....AIAG Assessment Certified and asked if he would care to comment.'
Message 3474233
'Videotape contains the key highlights of AIAG's Executive
Briefings for Supplier Management on the Year 2000 challenge.'
The video also covers Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors expectations for their suppliers' Year 2000 capability and compliance.
Message 3612408
'.. GM wants status from all their suppliers'
You have some leverage with the senior trading partner if they want the compliance
status of the minor partner. For example, GM wants status from all their suppliers, so
the suppliers have an avenue to ask for data on GM.'
Message 3632553
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Supply chain
' certifying the year 2000 compliance of all suppliers was "probably impossible" because of limited time '
computerweekly.co.uk
'Friday 06 February
Manufacturers face millennium meltdown
Message 3459595
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Apron services
x4.dejanews.com.
3&hitnum=2
'I'm told Royal Dutch/Shell has just undertaken a pilot project at
Schipol airport (Amsterdam) to look at Y2K compliance in apron services |
