Steel mills have thousands of these. From a safety standpoint, the steel industry had no choice but to become compliant. We can't put our employees at risk. If your facilities fail, there's a tremendous cost to being down, particularly when we're running full, as we are now. K paid other dividends.
Companies now have detailed and accurate inventories of their information-technology departments.
Collaboration among suppliers and customers to fix the Y2K problem will help them implement electronic-commerce strategies, Conarty says. E-business is going to be implemented on top of what you already have. The systems are in better shape now because we have replaced some of them and have fixed the others. You get yourself into these projects, and one turns into another. These systems are not directly related to Y2K. Newer minimills had an advantage over older integrated ones.