INDEX-TAVA - Update
Last update 3/28/1998
- TAVA Ad's, PR..
- Conferences
- RFP's
- Automotive Industry
- Bristol-Meyers Squibb
- Wonderware / TAVA
- Wonderware distributors
- Microsoft / Wonderware / TAVA
- Thoughts on TAVA's partners
- Comments on TAVA
- Links
- Other stuff
- Some thoughts
- Discussions
- Contingency Planning and Speed to Market
- Industry Groups
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TAVA Ad's, PR..
Fortune May 25 - Y2K supplement
Message 3747967
Some TAVA customers and potential customers meet....
'1998 Plant Engineering Management Show and Conference March 16-19, Chicago, IL
Message 3663767
3/98
Dow Jones Newswires - February 9, 1998
Topro Stock Up 21%; Awareness Of Year 2000 Glitch Cited
Message 3383839
3/98
TAVA web site mentioned in the link's page of the IEE Institute of Electrical Engineers:
iee.org.uk ; have a look at: ' H2 GENERAL '
'Control Engineering' - COVER STORY - TAVA's Eugene C. Jacobsen
'February, 1998 Control Engineering
COVER STORY
Year 2000: Where Do You Stand?
It's fewer than 22 months to year 2000. If you haven't started a detailed compliance assessment of plant-floor software, you might want to hurry. '
Eugene C. Jacobsen, TAVA Technologies
Message 3492680
manufacturing.net
'I did see a quote of Jenkins in the following magazine.
in another magazine, there was a quote of one of the sales people of TAVA.
Ad's would be nice, but probably are not necessary.'
industryweek.com
'Emerald: 'work by companies who are developing ways to correct this will still be needed after the year 2000'
Found by David Sheridan:
lancnews.com
Message 3330504
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Conferences
Wonderware in SA: 'Year 2000: Year 2000 problems will not be restricted to the IT Industry...'
3/98
...- it will affect automation and process control as well. Wonderware's proposed
comprehensive testing mechanism for industry will be discussed at this workshop.'
Message 3639478
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'STATE OF WASHINGTON, Department of Transportation - RFP for department-wide Year 2000 Embedded Chip Services'
Message 3675853
FOLLOW-UP post - The STATE OF WASHINGTON, Department of Transportation
Message 3676006
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Coca Cola
Building new plants all over the world...
cocacola.com
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Automotive Industry
'Jenkins: 'we're involved with them in their supply chain just launching right now''
From:
Message 3474233
'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.'
And then read the lines on the TAVA GM engagement below! GM is very active in the AIAG Y2K initiatives; TAVA comes in as a solution provider:
From
vcall.com
From the www.year2000.com listserver - TAVA Q/A
Message 3474109
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Bristol-Meyers Squibb
'My name is Janice Myint. As part of the Bristol-Meyers Squibb Year 2000 effort...'
mbs-program.com
Information on BMY (Bristol Myers Squibb)
Message 3253513
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Wonderware / TAVA
1998 WONDERWORLD - AN INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH CONFERENCE
Message 3657531
3/98
Wonderware's FactorySuite 2000 on tour in France - March 1998 in about 25 cities
Message 3639520
3/98
Wonderware Corporation FactorySuite Year 2000 Product Support
pantek.co.uk (distributing partner of Wonderware)
Message 3232259
'it is from the Wonderware home page (www.wonderware.com):'
techstocks.com.
'ARE YOU READY FOR THE YEAR 2000?
Don't let your industrial automation systems grind to a halt on January 1, 2000. Find out how Wonderware and TAVA Technologies have the Year 2000 Solution for your plant.'
"Re: what makes TPRO an exciting long term investment''
'Karl, Right! I slapped my head that I did not read the white papers in detail some months before. In my mind, Wonderware was just one of the product vendors sitting on top of MS NT and BackOffice. Reading those White papers was a real eye-opener to me; and it changed my mind completely!'
Message 3244991
Wonderware: ' Yes, please send me a Year 2000 information package!'
Message 3628107
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Wonderware distributors
Wonderware partner Standard Automation: Denver, Houston
stdauto.com
'YES YES YES!! Wonderware partner's training session - also about y2k!'
softcell.com; go to 'whats is new', factory suite 2000
'Analysis tools and services to assist in diagnosing the plant's millenium health will be introduced in this session. A solid 1 hour and 30 minutes on y2k on the factory floor.'
Message 3233049
Distributors of Wonderware products
Links to several WW distributors.
Message 3243768
SoftCell: Wonderware Acquires Minority Interest in Two
Distributors To Strengthen Channel, Facilitate
High-Level Software Sales
Message 3282319
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MICROSOFT / Wonderware / TAVA
Small example of Factory Floor / MIS integration the MSFT/WNDR way
Message 3796009
'Microsoft technology is also a part of OLE for Process Control (OPC)'
microsoft.com
General Microsoft white paper on Manufacturing.
Message 3244843
Microsoft/Internet/Wonderware/TAVA
microsoft.com
'Well I get carried away a bit by all this wonderful Microsoft/Wonderware stuff ;-)
What a partner for TAVA!'
Message 3244710
Microsoft-Wonderware-TAVA
microsoft.com I started reading al the white papers of Microsoft (MS) on Manufacturing.'
Message 3244352
'Now, in 1996, Wonderware and Microsoft have advanced their strategic partnership to a new level. Microsoft has recognized that the Wonderware Factory SuiteT manufacturing software tools are "best of breed" client/server applications ideally suited for use with the BackOfficeT family of server products.'
Update on Wonderware's website: tight Microsoft/Wonderware technology link
Message 3613303
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Thoughts on TAVA'S partners
Some thoughts on the indirect TAVA distribution channels
'The last couple of days I have tried to make for myself a broader picture of TAVA, it's product and the marketing and sales strategies.'
Message 3284322
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Comments on TAVA
From: Rick Cowles <rcowles@waterw.com>
Subject: Response to TAVA Technologies Inc or "Torpo"
Date: 1998-02-04 16:47:51
I spent some time reviewing the TAVA product at their Westchester PA offices, and it's certainly a piece of the puzzle. Of most interest is their embedded controls methodology, and data repository. I don't believe that they have "testing software" per se (i.e. something that you could non-intrusively hook up to a PLC and test the PLC throughput), but I could be wrong about that...
Message 3350390
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LINKS
LINKS to organisations related to embedded software - from Industrial Communication (IC) site
indcom.ideon.se
'Merger creates Scandinavias leading provider of industrial automation software'
Message 3232572
industrylink.com
Message 3210609
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OTHER STUFF
Plant Information at the Desktop: a strategic solution to the problem of getting batch information from different control systems to the corporate desktop
wbf.org
This has been discussed some time ago by CK. This document is a good and detailed description of plant-floor - MIS integration; the business that TAVA will be in increasingly after 2000 (leveraging their accumulated detailed know-how of lots of plant floors).
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Some thoughts
'Internet year
Another thing came to my mind regarding immovable time horizon etc; and changed business rules/investment rules re. y2k companies and TAVA in particular.'
Message 3417425
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Discussions
'On the EPRI as a possible competitor issue'
Message 3577049
Message 3584425
Analysis of Chris Coppage / reaction
Message 3627627
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Contingency Planning and Speed to Market
'So all effort to spent on getting on with remediating the most critical systems first; is putting your company in greated danger than necessary. This notion will increasingly blow away ideas of doing anything that is not absolulely necessary. So when buying a solution from outside will speed the proces up; co's will do just that.'
Message 3600685
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Industry Groups
'...results are achieved, IMF publishes and distributes them to all Year 2000 Group '
'What is the IMF Year 2000 Group? The Year 2000 Group is an Information Management Forum program comprised of organizations desiring to collaborate on Year 2000 issues'
Members of the Year 2000 Group include:
Cargill Incorporated
Coca-Cola Enterprises
General Motors Corporation
Message 3628017
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'Please give me a beer; now that I know that I can wait to drink a Coke in 2000' - After KO announcement |
