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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (8605)	1/8/1998 7:26:00 AM
From: kfdkfd	Respond to of 31646

Cheryl Thanks for the update.

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (8605)	1/8/1998 8:36:00 AM
From: TokyoMex	Respond to of 31646

Nice to see this at wake up.. Thanx Theryl... Toe TPRO

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (8605)	1/8/1998 8:52:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31646

KEN OWEN, V.P., BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ============================================================== Ken Owen joined TAVA in November '97 as Vice President of Business Development. Owen was previously Director of Systems Integration at FLUOR DANIEL, and early leader in the recognition of Year 2000 issues in factory automation systems. Ken has over twenty-five years of senior-level business and IT consulting, IS management, and executive operations management experience within the manufacturing industry. Related information systems experience includes all aspects of improving the total performance of manufacturing operations through strategic planning, process reengineering, solutions development and systems integration and implementation management. *SOME COMMENTS FROM KEN* "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). pubsys.cmp.com 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... nytsyn.com Bloomberg July '97 article on embedded Y2K problems