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A shop floor audit of a major US auto manufacturer showed more than half of the 1700 embedded systems failed. Contact Jim West, project manager for Deloitte and Touche.techstocks.com Manufacturers may be the least prepared for third-party year 2000 failures. They depend on parts built and assembled by suppliers, who in turn rely on other suppliers. A supply-chain failure could occur if just one supplier cannot produce a part because of a systems failure. Programmable logic controllers, robotics, paint and steel mixing, production scheduling, bill of material, and just-in-time inventory systems control synchronized production environments. A system failure could result in multiple plant closures and massive layoffs. techweb.com Costs of tackling the bug were soaring ... particularly concerning so-called "embedded" chips installed deep in manufacturing equipment. "The challenge isn't because it is intellectually difficult, but because there are just billions of things to be done. It's the sheer scale of the task and the relatively small number of people in the world qualified to do the work." sunday-times.co.uk Unilever triples estimate on Y2K Fix - Check out Topro & Unilever connection Message 3017161 "Heavy-duty users of embedded systems such as the manufacturing & "You can't just turn off a steel plant" techstocks.com Industry's embedded systems to be hit hard by Year 2000. It is thought that industry will be hit hard by the millennium problem as entire manufacturing planning systems will have to be replaced as well as thousands of embedded control systems.Upgrades are not possible in many cases as systems have been heavily customised... tagish.co.uk Control systems in power plants,T&D, and offices all depend on This "Year 2000 Problem" is quite different from the well-publicized Y2K problem in utility business software applications running on mainframe computers. The impact of embedded systems failure, while not known, could potentially be severe and widespread. epri.com One in five embedded systems responsible for running critical processes in UK oil, petrochemical, power and aviation manufacturing firms will fail in the year 2000. "It's small and medium-sized factories and firms that we're really worried about," ... Some may not even be aware of the problem or if they are, they lack the financial and technical resources to put it right. EXPLOSION! ... Read thecomputerweekly.co.uk Embedded Industrial Control Systems and the Year 2000 Problem compinfo.co.uk Instrument Society of America's Industrial Computing Magazine October cover story on Year 2000 embedded technology on the factory floorCountdown to 2000: isa.org Behind the Year 2000 Myth: isa.org WONDERWARE WHITE PAPER: techstocks.com Manufacturing Systems Magazine: Special Year 2000 Supplement (9/97) 204.243.31.27 . Manufacturing System On-Line Magazine: Info Technology for Mfg Main Site: manufacturingsystems.com Y2K Specific: manufacturingsystems.com
