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

To: Ken Salaets who wrote (2127)	7/12/1998 6:28:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

'Auto-industry effort But some manufacturers are quietly facing up to the near impossibility of total compliance. They are focusing on fixing potential problems with critical business systems and on ensuring that they have a backup plan in case something goes awry. "We never set our goal to fix all the deficiencies," says Clif Triplett, product-process manager for Y2K at General Motors Corp. "With some machines, the date change will have no effect. Where the impact will not affect production, we're not going to touch it in the first wave. But if it's something where materials stop flowing, that's critical." ... industryweek.com