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

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (1061)	2/16/1998 10:42:00 AM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

The Real Year 2000 Nightmare: Manufacturing Systems Industry Week article (found at North's site) industryweek.com [...] And make no mistake about it, the impact of Year-2000-caused interruptions to business could be catastrophic, experts say. Should a shop-floor systems snafu be allowed to go undetected until its too late, not only is the company that caused the trouble at risk, but so are its dependent business partners. "It could bring an entire supply chain to a screeching halt, because some plants will not be able to deliver," says Bill Swanton, director of plant-operations research at Advanced Manufacturing Research (AMR), a Boston-based research firm. "One little guy not taking [the year 2000] seriously could shut the whole supply chain down."> [...]