uptown47
Lifetime Supporting Member
Hi there,
I was just speaking to my boss and he's asked me to look into a potential problem in some of our older equipment.
He seems to remember that, many moons ago, when the older equipment was installed (late 80's early 90's) someone told him that there would be an issue with the processors in 2017.
There are S5, S7 and Mitsi processors in different machines and he's not sure which PLCs they were talking about but he's asked me to look into this (obviously back then it seemed like a million years away so he didn't really bother about it).
Has anyone heard of anything like this? I've Googled to no avail?
I'm guessing it could potentially be a bit like the (so called) millennium bug? Maybe where the 'clock' is running out or rolling over or whatever?
Anyone else heard of anything like this with any of the older processors?
Cheers
I was just speaking to my boss and he's asked me to look into a potential problem in some of our older equipment.
He seems to remember that, many moons ago, when the older equipment was installed (late 80's early 90's) someone told him that there would be an issue with the processors in 2017.
There are S5, S7 and Mitsi processors in different machines and he's not sure which PLCs they were talking about but he's asked me to look into this (obviously back then it seemed like a million years away so he didn't really bother about it).
Has anyone heard of anything like this? I've Googled to no avail?
I'm guessing it could potentially be a bit like the (so called) millennium bug? Maybe where the 'clock' is running out or rolling over or whatever?
Anyone else heard of anything like this with any of the older processors?
Cheers