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Show October 24. HILL TOP TIMES 12 Page 197 3 in x ' y s y Hill Value Engineers Save Millions plan to celebrate the Bicentennial by year exceeding $300 million in savings over the past 10 year there benefits such as improved reliability and quality. To encourage Ogden ALC personnel to apply VE to their VE work, a four-hou- r motivational course was presented to almost 300 persons in FY75. An additional 32 Ogden employees took a three-cred- it hour VE class offered by Utah State University after duty hours. The FY75 VE motivation course was so successful that it is being revamped and will be rescheduled in the near future. Value Engineers hope to reach over 1000 Ogden ALC personnel with this course in FY76. Colonel Mumford stated that every person on Hill AFB should attend this course for their own personal benefit as well as the benefits which accrue to the government. A second part of the VE program is the Contract personnel saved during FY 75, $32,309,400 exceeding the assigned goal of $13.8 million by 234 per cent. Although VE has been identified with hardware redesign it can be applied to function any the where potential exists for reducing ? 3A tAW n . costs. 0L ' & For example, the initiated a Comptroller, program to apply VE in the funding and accounting area and discovered that VE can apply to a highly standardized AC, ';. ' ' ' .' - paperwork function. AC personnel exceeded their assigned goal by 427 per cent! The Directorate of Materiel Management carried the bulk of the ALC load as they documented nearly $22 million of savings which is over 67 per cent of the total ALC savings. of The Directorate Maintenance Darrell Jensen (sitting left). Jay Robison (standing left) and Riney Lind (standing right), all Ogden ALC value engineers examine UDU-3- 3 25 lb. practice bombs with the project engineer Elden Austin (sitting right). The bomb originally made of cast iron has become increasingly expensive. Bombs of cement and sheet metal are now being tested in hopes of reducing cost by $1 to $10 each. With millions in use annually, a small amount of savings on each bomb adds up to millions of dollars saved for the tax payer. To serve its purpose the bomb must deliver a smoke charge to the ground in a repeatable trajectory so that accuracy can be obtained. (U.S. Air Force Photo by George Whetton) We Buy Used Cars ittee... A OUICANTCC voub P wrjuO H VOU TO and Trucks TMAT ACCOUNT SOU CMfcC OUt HOT i We Pick Up nvtCXL ICT Used Cars 4TCHS-- CM. TO UtLT vouR OOVtejlMIVT SAvfr CMfCK Acme Sales YOVK ACCOUNTING ABOUT TUSH &ftCt fYXfCTP&VSITPtAN - Ogden SLC w S3? - rtl i o o o o o o o o f! I' III ill 393-1031621-923- ir Wt methodology i mt. '..wT ,y-- y yyw ..ir "' . I MH FELLOWSHIP 4 773-449- rad D O Ei J D O Bd D O G Q. 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Darrell Jensen, Jay Robison and Riney Lind have done an outstanding job in providing the program guidance and technical expertise necessary to give Ogden ALC the most effective Value Engineering program in AFLC. O Polynesian Si: i 399-244- 4 487-549- jgrFOOD I & Parts For Sale Engineering methodology. Unnecessary costs have no defense against a Value Engineering attack. OCFHOCRaOCFHOCFnOCFooCFOBEg a U reported Value nOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CD .COUKAdE is the love of the morally beautiful more than . life.-PIat- o program. whopping assigned goal. Maintenance UL has incorporated the VE U methodology as the primary O method in ft problem-solvinenhancement u maintenance Practice Bombs Valu Engineers Examine incentive per cent of their 666 contracts from these amounted to $358,800 in FY75 and will total over $1.3 million during the contract period. A program to expand this potential is also in the planning stage. On May 6, 1975, President Ford called for of Mobilization a "total America's greatest resources-th- e brains, the skills and the will power of our people. In this fight, it is vital that all Federal civilian and military personnel become actively involved in cost reduction and energy conservation efforts." The ultimate weapon in the Cost Reduction arsenal is the required performance features. Often are side one-thir- trained $100,000 ALC have prepared by Ogden VE incentive clauses to encourage the contractor to reduce costs. The savings decision which involves costs. When this technique is properly used, the decision will always result in the lowest cost without possible any adversely affecting period according to Lt. Col. William R. Mumford. Value Engineering (VE) Program Manager. The VE Savings at Ogden ALC for the past nine years has totaled $275 million. This d of represents almost total Ah'LC accomplishthe ment of $902 million during this period. 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