To: threadneedler who wrote (26808 ) 1/20/1999 8:08:00 AM From: Manzanillo Respond to of 31646
TAVA/BECK News!! TAVA/R.W. Beck LLC and the City of Los Angeles Tackle Year 2000 Issues SEATTLE, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- TAVA/R.W. Beck LLC, the leading Year 2000 solution provider to the power industry in control system environments, is beginning the process of remediation for power entities and water utilities across the country and globally. Now the company brings its unique approach to bear in the wastewater utility sector. Starting immediately, TAVA/R.W. Beck LLC will utilize its unique package of Y2K tools and training to provide professional and expert technical services to achieve Year 2000 compliance at several City of Los Angeles wastewater treatment and conveyance facilities operated by the Department of Public Works, Bureau of Sanitation. Primary services are to include inventory, testing and preliminary engineering for remediation. Other significant tasks will be related to preparing contingency plans and an overall program management plan. Work has begun at the Hyperion Treatment Plant, where systematic inventory is focusing on identification of embedded systems while simultaneously preparing for testing of mission critical systems. Similar procedures will follow at three other treatment plants and approximately 60 pumping stations. "Our approach continues to prove itself as 'best- of- class' ," said theLLC's president and CEO, Don LeMaster. "Our tools, services, power industry experience and teaming agreements with other companies can't be duplicated. Our unparalleled abilities allow us to go in and start solving problems immediately, where other providers have to start each assignment from scratch. We look forward to working with the Bureau in this important endeavor." TAVA (www.tavatech.com) provides factory automated and control systems integration helping clients in manufacturing and process industries integrate their processes, applications, hardware and software into seamless manufacturing enterprises. Located in 14 regional offices throughout the U.S., TAVA has a staff of more than 550. Information regarding TAVA/R.W. Beck LLC, can be obtained at (206) 695-4780 or at www.tavabeck.com. Statements made in this Press Release that are not historical or current facts are "forward-looking statements" made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements represent management's best judgement as to what may occur in the future, but are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those presently anticipated or projected. These risks and uncertainties include those discussed in the "Management's Discussion and Analysis" section of TAVA Technologies, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1998 and in any subsequent reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, to which reference should be made. SOURCE TAVA/R.W. Beck LLC CO: TAVA/R.W. Beck LLC, TAVA Technologies, Inc., Pacific Consulting Group, Inc. ST: Washington IN: CPR UTI SU: 01/20/99 07:58 EST prnewswire.com