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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Roleigh Martin who wrote (54)	2/1/1998 7:13:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 618

Hi Roleigh! To see the actual discussion you have to go to: control.com; and click on 'review'. Then you go to: control.com This link is very very slow; I could not get into it today. I only got in several days ago. The other link only gives an overview of the company-sites of the participants. I checked several of them; you are right that there is (not yet) much on y2k to be seen on those company sites. Regards, John

To: Roleigh Martin who wrote (54)	2/1/1998 12:29:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Respond to of 618

Examples of Failures: Automotive Industry Action Group ================================================================ AIAG "Trouble with 2000": A few REAL examples. Most people know that the turn of the century will cause problems due to the common practice of representing the year portion of a date as two digits. But many don't know exactly what those problems are. Here are a few examples: - Certain robot controllers will either lock up or think the date is 1/1/1980. - Certain CNCs roll over from 1999 to 100. - Some automatic storage & retrieval systems (ASRS) will select incorrect items due to a ...date malfunction. - Several barcoding systems already do not print tags for dates after 12/31/99. - Some manufacturing resource planning (MRP) software packages will not operate ...properly when the year "2000" is introduced. - Most Windows applications have date limitations hard-coded. - The ROM BIOS chip in your PC may interpret dates after 12/31/99 incorrectly. - Non-year-2000-ready security systems may inappropriately restrict access. - Several time-keeping systems will not function after 12/31/99. - Some conveyor-control systems may malfunction and prohibit the execution of ...scheduled production after the year 2000. - The first year 2000-related lawsuit, due to incorrectly programmed product instructions, ..was filed recently. - Some estimates of damages from year 2000 liability lawsuits top $1 trillion. Roger Buck , an active member of the Year 2000 Task Force at AIAG (Automotive Industry Action Group), is manager of Year 2000 at Chrysler Corp. aiag.org "YEAR 2000 - IT'S CLOSER THAN YOU THINK" Cheryl

To: Roleigh Martin who wrote (54)	2/1/1998 12:30:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 618

'Honeywell chairman: ...one of the most worrying areas is the field of industrial process control.' From: millennia-bcs.com 'Essential Systems and Services IX. Chemical Process Industry (CPI) According to CPI, the Year 2000 problem may be catastrophic for the chemical process industries, the bug could cause innumerable shutdowns and horrific accidents. "The consequence of a computer 'hiccup' in process control is much more severe than what would happen to your word-processor program on a PC," points out Dave Imming, head of the Y2K team at Fisher-Rosemount Systems. Though many firms are well on the way towards Y2K software compliance,Honeywell Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael Bonsignore said one of the most worrying areas is the field of industrial process control. At one large chemical process industry company ($5 billion in sales), "A lot the DCS's, PLC's, lab instruments and so on may have problems," says the IT manager. At Shell, the Y2K team is working to inventory equipment with embedded chips. "We have to see what we have, and address the vendors for each," says Ron Quiggins, Director of Renew 2000 at Shell Services Co. Additionally, many instruments and "smart" units throughout a plant may be controlled by microchips with Y2K problems as well. "This is a problem specific to the chemical industries, as you have many unique, embedded systems," says Year 2000 analyst Peter de Jager. "In a chemical process, you just can't afford to have your process control doing something it shouldn't." '