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

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (960)	1/24/1998 12:26:00 AM
From: Josef Svejk	Respond to of 9818

Humbly report, All, "Where the rubber meets the road": _____________________ From: "Pittelkau, Harlan" <HarlanP@DIS.WA.GOV> To: "'Y2K Esofta'" <y2k@esofta.com> Subject: Where the rubber meets the road Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 14:23:07 -0800 The basic issue with remediation of Year 2000 problems in general but especially in the Non-IT or embedded microprocessor/controller environment is to mobilize the right group of people to identify and fix specific problems. Debate about theoretical issues doesn't matter a whit to the operating engineer or repairperson involved in maintaining plant infrastructure or transmission system(s). Every one of them needs to know which component to replace to remain operational. Understanding that automation, inclusive of all computerized devices in the plant is often unique to the operating environment, is the first step in the realization that the person who is involved with every component in the process must be a participant in the remediation process. Anyone working outside the process is going to have to spend a tremendous amount of time in learning what the repairman already knows before they can even begin to inventory the devices performing date functions. The more distributed the systems components are, the more people there are who are involved in its maintenance. Since automation exists in virtually every academic discipline and has become necessary as tools for production of work, anyone involved in tool usage is involved in Year 2000 issues in some manner. There exists a major shortcoming in communicating information about year 2000 issues in assembly line produced consumer type systems as well as in the common devices used for control of unique processes. Manufacturers often send technical bulletins to select lists of customers indicating problem issues with components of end products. Because of the management and budget structure built around Y2K remediation efforts, product compliancy information must be made public in terms of do nothing, revise, replace, test, and methodology. Lets hear it for all of the ants building the hill one grain at a time! Harlan Pittelkau, Computer Information Consultant Washington State, Year 2000 Program Office harlanp@dis.wa.gov, (360) 902-3204, FAX: (360) 586-8992 _____________________ Posted with permission from author, Svejk (GL-15 applies: digiserve.com ;-)