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To: John Mansfield who wrote (11411)	2/19/1998 1:38:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

Jenkins: 'we're involved with them in their supply chain just launching right now' From: exchange2000.com 'The undertaking by the automotive industry via AIAG is massive. With nearly 50 000 Tier-1 suppliers and 500 000 total suppliers throughout the chain...' '....AIAG Assessment Certified and asked if he would care to comment.' And then read the lines on the TAVA GM engagement below! GM is very active in the AIAG Y2K initiatives; TAVA comes in as a solution provider: From vcall.com 'John Jenkins: ÿNo. Not at all. Kevin, you want to talk about General Motors? Kevin Fallon: ÿYes. I'd like to give just a quick backdrop of GM. In our feeling, General Motors and Kraft are actually in the lead position in the Y2K rollout. And General Motors wrote a test document that's rapidly being adopted as the industry standard. And obviously, in any information, one issue is quantity, but the more important thing is quality. What we're seeing is a lot of the vendors and suppliers are claiming that their products are compliant when, indeed, through tests and further research, it's found out that the products are not compliant. So General Motors has written a test document that now has been adopted by AIAG, which is the Automotive Industry Action Group. And, from my belief, Chrysler and Ford have adopted this same standard. And we've taken this standard out across other industries to try and get the awareness up and get a higher bar, so to speak, on this whole compliance issue in the process area and the embedded systems. I tell you we're getting down to our relationship with General Motors. We have several contracts with them. One is working with one of their divisions, Allison Transmissions. We have- there's a small contract today. We are also part of their standards team that's evolving and developing that GM standard that's just been adopted by IEEE out there, and we have two voting members on the IEEE year 2000 subcommittee for manufacturing and embedded systems. Also we are working with GM, and finalizing discussions, and working in research and testing as opposed to the standard document itself. And we're involved with them in their supply chain just launching right now, moving out to look at the Y2K readiness of many of their suppliers, as I mentioned earlier. '