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Show Proditetioim CoBlhrciMakes Records Vital 'Brain' 10 Guides and Speeds Work Saturday November 6, com 1943 repair only, while the latter initiates unusual and usual work orders or manufacture work orders for machinery designed and frequently Invented by Hill Field workers to streamline production right here in the OASC shops. In the past eight months the technical branch has taken on the job of making complete estimates for manufacture work orders, interpreting the blueprints and listing all the required material, finally issuing orders only when all the needed material is at hand need so that valuable man-hounot be wasted. Previously, supply simply sent work orders to production control and they were passed on to the shops. If material and parts weren't available, work orders lay around and piled up for eight to 10 weeks, sometimes longer, before jobs could be completed. , Problems of speeding production to keep pace with our heroes who are blasting the Axis from the skies called for production control to set up an expediting branch. Previously the work order unit controlled and carried on as best ft could the vital task of pushing work through the shops. As the war progressed, the. shops expanded and became departmentalized into : airplane repair, metal manufacture and repair, and engine repair. Originally, here at Hill Field the Engineering Department shops were a unit in which that had to be done was every job tackled ' with what equipment and men were available to work on it. Metal manufacture and repair has since been departmentalized into a welding department, machine shop, sheet metal shop, small tool repair section, tube and conduit department,, hydraulics department and a special section of hydraulics is devoted to work on wheels and brakes. Airplane repair started in Hang ars l and z. unginauy, 11 a plane was pulled into Hangar 1, it was the responsibility of the workers there to repair it and get it back in the air again. The same procedure applied to planes pulled into for Department Has Just Had Its 2nd Anniversary 27 marked the second anniversary of the production control section, formerly known- as the planning section, maintenance division, Ogden Air Service October rs - Command. How this vital "brain corporation" grew from three men to more than 300 men and women and what they do explains in part the wonderful story behind the civilian army that "keeps 'em flying" at Hill Field. In the past month both General . - H. H. "Hap" Arnold, chief of the AAF and General Walter H. Frank, chief of the Air Service Command, have personally commended war workers here for leading all other major control areas in production man-hoavailable. per .. As the Engineering Department of the Air Corps at Hill Field exdivipanded into the maintenance sion, production ' control was introduced as a working link between the supply division ' and the .main- tenance shops. ; The big job of the Ogden : Air Depot was the same at its inception as faces the OASC today: to repair planes and get them back info action, and to repair vast quanti- of parts and items for our , ties . - ur . - . fighting aircraft. . Some eight thousand men and women make up the fighting unit of the civilian , army who toil day and night in the maintenance shops and the supply warehouses here to keep our fighting aircraft in repair and in the air. To every one of them a work order is just as familiar a term as apple pie or bread and butter. Responsible for Record Production control is largely responsible for the unique record of workers here. The work order needed a mother, so to speak, to lead it by the hand until its spe- -' cif ic job was done. The original three people in the close-kn- it fam ily who conceived and evolved pro- auction control were Major Francis P. Caldwell, then a 2nd Lieutenant, its chief then and now; Torn Sorenson of Ogden. now a war rant officer in the Air Corps over? seas; and jack Faust, now assistant general superintendent of aircraft shops. First set up by the three men was the work order unit which Is toaay caued the Tech branch. Its job was to see that the shops followed through on work order (. sued by supply for the manufacture or shop equipment and for the repair of airplanes and parts that were fast accumulating: as the war progressed. In other words, production control acted as the or liaison agent for supply Hangar 3. r New Opportunities - With the . development of new shop and department production control found new opportunities to the flow of work by institracing units throughtuting stock out the whole maintenance division. They make up the material branch. As the volume of fighting planes speed and equipment continued to avalanche into Hill Field for. repair, Maintenance continued to suffer "labour pains,'' and .by trial and error gave birth to additional divisions of work. Airplane repair split into a fabric department, cable department, propeller shop, tire and tube repair shop, and separate sections to repair fuel cells and wooden wings. This decentralization of work was good to a certain point, but the hawk eyes of production control saw that- the picture was getting as complicated as the affairs of the old woman who lived in a shoe. Maintenance likewise had so many children she didn't know what to do. As they grew up they needed to set up housekeeping for themselves, and leave airplanes re pair to the big job of getting fighting planes in and out of the hangars and back in the air. So a section was set up containing a fabric unit, a cable department, a plastic unit, a rubber section, and pattern Their first activity was In the shops repair were wooden patterns are metal manufacture unit made for of new mation which made the shop to speed and equip, chinery equipment ment, work benches, cleaning vats, me work. and special tools needed to set up housekeeping for general of fighting and uKr thousands of parts.planes Tom SorenJ.n did rnh a aibang-u- p tock jobtracerof a"d kceoiner . - - -- non-met- al en u.i. die-casti- - " at K7 ndcd another Production Vlai I Maintenance and supply at Hill Field are Interdependent The close up beharmony which has grown tween their workers has actually shortened the war, no one will ever know how much. They "sell" and "buy" from each other. Together they "keep 'em flying."are actually Crippled airplanes flown Into Hill Field on orders from supply and when they ' are completely overhauled by maintenance they wing their ways to and other control areas, with their releases and from the supply division. When the Ogden Air Depot was first set up three years ago, the Engineering Department's first big job was to make the necessary work benches, testing equipment, engine stands, cleaning vats and a thousand and one items needed to repair airplanes' and damaged equipment and parts. Many special tools had to be constructed as 4m, I ed fLir ,Ca2C lnc""l"I ,airP,ane Jyu?uedcd, by our u .4 i ?ddk- - i halt hi ed sniporl $ i ' BEST IN ASC . . , Efficient stock tracers in the production! ant ti well. section do more work with less help than in any other but Where Flooded With Work Orders f of the Air Service Command. lady ' '" At the same time planes and re- 1 1 were and parts pairable equipment "joundag piling into the supply department duction control added another defWhett in astronomical quantities. In no partment to its own family, t5 time at all the Engineering Depart- aircraft receiving and delivery 'livered ment was flooded with repair work branch! first is wtf rtt branch This orthe orders which far exceeded work which i ders for manufactured equipment to receive incoming planes and the tween So them. needed in the shops. production last to release Hill FU control stepped into the picture Orders from Air Service Com in and again and let up., a control of re- mand require that planes oveHon sr a This work orders. with department rhauled at Hill Field leave pair Train conas the project is known today Trains complete complement of equipment Elephant elepha nerve-centtrol branch. Today it is the for whatever operational front or peared of production control, and training base they are. sent to. Used worms Being are in the controls production So when nlanes arrive they actually units OASC maintenance shops at Hill stripped by aircraft receiving and look U Worshippers life Field. all of branch tools, delivery trains When the field was young there rafts, first-ai- d kits, thermos bottles, number of both siviliij ease U A large reof was a great conglomeration machine guns, cushions, head men attend and pairable property and equipment phones, oxygen masks and tanks, employesservicesenlisted base W km,tl trains in the church and millions millions representing concentrated "K" rations, fishing day ai of recs needed at dollars war of vitally of sup- equipment for crash landings Sunday, takihg advantage elepha plies. Much of it was under tents set, et cetera. These items are order allowing all personn BWa oh what, is today the great parking carefully listed and sorted while The lot where 2500 cars wait for the planes are under repair. When tney gether . with members of than shifts to change and their workers go back into action, aircraft re- families, to enter the field in o; Field and riders to go home. and Delivery workers have to attend chapel services. The on troubl Warehouses were also flooded to ceiving to it that they are fitted witn was issued by Col. Lilburn D. Fi on tb overflowing with repairable equip- every item i good repair. base, officer of the commanding their es ment, and no one had had time as crlamorous but just Less to admittance first Those desiring to find out what was on hand and sential as any phase of the in work to the what condition it was in, whether production control is the activity field for the Sunday services more it was obsolescent or useable. So of. the tool control branch. Before enter through the south gate wl sot i on control the were got valuable set job tools "chi production it was up BOW. and found out by careful study just constantly being lost and mislaid. they are issued special how much work and what kind of Many man-houof work were visitor" passes and registered. work the shops could handle.' Com wasted. Now tool kits are issued to Members of a civilian empl plete Inventories were taken of workers on memorandum receipts family will be admitted when what supply had on hand with the and other tools like electric rivetors companied by the employe. special project control plan in and electric wrenches are issued as Field identification must be mind. needed. In thi reDairable nronertv branch sented .by the employe. Unless The seventh branch of producoT depot supply which is housed in 1 tion control is the statistical comoanied bv an enlisted man, pi Warehouse 10, special project in branch, and really the records arrangements for the admission spectors set up a system whereby branch of the Ogden Air Depot as families of enlisted personnel w they are now able to notify their far as maintenance goes. The ha maHa fhrnlich Auxiliary ltlHH office in production control of the eighth branch of the section is the nn1Iwt headfluarters. transportation repairaoie equipment. received eacn administrative branch. ElephantfViatrain ahanol hOM alSO N . day. fmm nt Control Civilian chief. Production The big job of the project control leave the soaft is R. W. ChlsenhaU, Den- arranged and willbefore the beW branch is to maintain an even flow Section, minutes 15 ver, one of the first stock tracers. gate The ctoi of work order commitments in the Foreman service. each of ning of all of materiel branch OASC control area. Long distance via ri with approximately must oe reached oniy stock telephone calls and teletype mes 140 in tracers, At the compleWJ trains. ll is phant his "Bum" family, sages to control areas all over the of the various services, from Little Rock, Arkansas, nation are a part of the means of the gTOUP will train, Production-Control" - rrnnsnort Assistant supervisors, .. tn the sown s m.. tipcV getting essential items that might nl Leo F. Mojxhon of Mlnot, otherwise' tie up work here and where passes will m "1 cause the loss of millions of dollars N.D., and Don R. Brown of Salt turned. special City. and thousands of and Lake Foreman of technical branch: thereby delay the day of victory Marvin Brownthe of Cheyenne, Wyo.; Stock tracers in Production CjH much the that longer. Through just trol section of malntenanee wn smooth channels of production foreman of special projects: Oliver were nn,"2 control the work flows into the Johnson of Denver; foreman of sion at Hill FieldService Com control: Dave Carlton of last week by Air shops and out to the . fighting project most Los of foreman as the Angeles; emJ expediting Headnuarters fronts. branch: .Carl Harris .of .Ogden; In an the major control Adds New Department foreman of aircraft receiving and When a great volume of aircraft delivery: Donald Fouts of Ogden; Specifically, It was stateA" deluged the Hill Field shops for foreman of tool contral branch: OASC maintenance shops wji complete overhaul, some of the Lamar Priest of Ogden; foreman of fewer stock tracer u , planes from fighting fronts and statistical branch: Clyde Stark of ine nuge voiumc others from training areas, pro- - salt Lake City. out here than are a ttir volume ei ""I .!.. m Jl JoolnWSWWWnSSBSJSSSSSWPSWBSSSSJCTMII Field Admits Personnel For Services -- w er . By . - rs . - Bii-se- H : man-hou- . m l rs . . Zl . . Air Trpffic Hre tp 400 Since 1941 A 400 per cent Increase fg, plane traffic at Hill km i. rapid expansion here -attj or tne ugaen Air mand. , uA review of traffic rep. .v.n.irorl thnt an avers 40 planes from all over the States, including some fr0JThouri. battle front, arrive every A further Drea""" rtf. mv H daily traffic showon A put of 10 cargo shlos ae 'each "f- fr0 Hill Field "port' a like number of civu " .t,.r on to con-sta- lttl0 mm .says! In .vlators axis. Growth and Change The picture at Hill Field been one of constant change, has and rapid growth. Where supply originally made all work order, now it makes only work orders for manufacturing as direct- ed or ordered by the Air Service Command. All other work orders of the maintenance division now originate in production control, special orancti or technical irojecis ranch. The former (handle orders -- ;Ser mm ' i the flow Milne ft 4hborl the identical problem: speeding the work order on its way. and Sf W fBfflF con-ii- P tracer ) J:. r ts God-spe- m ' . sub-depo- Of&W Efficient Stock Tracers CP nt z - planes. BOARD 2LSIH1T!T , , recis the planning acUvltios) of '""P wh, tmmr nne reeorsH V Jfw !" are due U; Uielr rprk, ti ji i ("79mn. jwsnensme M Conference CaPta,"nCrvif' Schmidt, Jr.,htaoase month to :ttend Dm U1 I.iv onnforence supervisors at.Fort fool 01 P081 Lewj $2 |