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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (569)	11/28/1997 7:37:00 PM
From: Josef Svejk	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9818

Humbly report, "Tava [TPRO] is finding 90-92% software compliance They're finding 70% hardware compliance (PCS, BIOS, Imbedded controllers, alarm systems) Also, Tava is discovering that yyyyy's Unix-based systems have Y2K problems. (Why Tava is dealing with Unix, I don't know) They believe this to be a generic problem across virtually all Unix systems. A test was run on one of their manufacturing lines where date was put to 2000. The whole line shut down. We were told "That scared the cr*p out of senior management!" Senior management at yyyyy instructed plant managers to be "forward looking" but not to simply replace their entire factory if they can avoid it. Point is and I'm paraphrasing the Tava manager, 'senior management really does not have a clue what's going on at the factory floor and what they don't know scares them.' Tava is seeing this management mind-set elsewhere, not only at yyyyyy. Factory floor managers are being given more decision making authority as a result but with guidelines." From: "Don Hutchinson's Meeting with TPRO Rep in CA PART 2": Message 2834349 "Don Hutchinson's Meeting with TPRO Rep in CA PART 1" Message 2834263 Svejk