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Show Ijr HILL TOP TIMES Friday, July 11, 1986 directorate of maintenance Summer vacation stops where training program begins By Charles Freeman Ogden ALC Public Affairs Office It may be summer vacation for Hill AFB, school is in session some, but here at at the Directorate of Maintenance Training Branch. Sandra McAllister, . Production Controller Instructor for the directorate, has a big job. Along with the course developers she is responsible for organizing a new training program for some 1,000 to 1,500 people within the Scheduling and Inventory Control Branch of maintenance. "There has never been training within the Directorate of Maintenance of this scale," said Mrs. McAllister. "The training program is designed to train everyone in the materiel and scheduling areas of maintenance." Several classes that will be taught by Mrs. McAllister are: Introduction to Materiel Control, Maintenance Inventory Control, Production Support Function, Indirect Materiel Function, and Scheduling Overview. These classes, explained Mrs. McAllister, "introduce materiel personnel to an overview of the materiel area, understanding of depot supply, and interfacing with the item manager. They also teach materiel personnel how to order, store, accomplish work listings, and fill out paperwork utilizing computer systems to do their jobs." Introduction to Materiel Control, the only course that has been well received. is currently is called Materiel Familiaroffered final class The is ization. This course designed to provide produc tion personnel and their supervisors an overview of how materiel is ordered and individual end items they repair. "There have been calls from other ALCs that are interested in the training being developed by Hill AFB about materiel topics," commented Mrs. McAllister. Mrs. McAllister hopes the complete training program will be in operation by this October. Classes will run in a consecutive cycle and are developed for all personnel that work with materiel. on-lin- e, t X Computer system translates shop talk' ning a "hot job" broke down, programmers had to stop work on new parts programs to rework the old By David P. Ochocki Directorate of Maintenance A new computer system could make communica- tions between production machines and terminals more efficient for the Engineering and Planning Branch, Directorate of Maintenance. According to findings of a task team, the biggest problem in existing computer programs was the inability to use the same programs on different machines making similar parts. If a machine run Than Ever .nicety equipped., 1982 Pontiac Bonneville faw mites. 4-do- or. 1983 Exceltenf; mid-Decemb- Camaro .EWaSW ill Podge Aries 19KSunb.rd ; Transportation: 4S7 1982 GMC Surburban 4x4 Fully - Grand igg$ Fotttiac Auto., BifS, Loaded! ftceJy tlIiliiiS 1984 Honda Accord " 4-do- or . 1983 Crievrotet Blazer a 2 to tfieset fyiy 3 7S I pipped, XLT Pontiac Parisienne ENjughBtrk 4toor fully equips 9(gg)76 G!.X TRUCKS Clareimce SWiglitt PONTIAC CADILLAC GMC TRUCK 5222222222322 RW, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm .88475 LAYTON, UTAH Am MUST SEE Fuly loaded w'th sunroof 570 NORTH MAIN 6 Lowmi.es 1985 Pontiac Fiero SE PONTIAC V-- 1983 Ford Bronco iipllipillill M'lMMttMiiMiiiiittllMrtMiMiiMMMiBi ammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmm extra clean 4-do- or, S3975 mmmhmmhhmmmhmmm IfiillBB : 1982 Olds. Clera Maiibu Wagon SiSBB ..Station. Wagon. Exceptionally 87S)5. Auto. . Air 180 Chev S4975 1984 Ford Escort Wagon ' Clean! MOST central computer. The connection allows for a flow of information from the terminals to production machines and back again. Current scheduling calls for full operations by pending contract approvals. 3 37(885 Z-- 20 required by the different shop production machines. A second feature is the ability of the DNC to connect the production machines and terminals to one P 1984 Ponttac Fiero 1978 The solution, they found, is distributed numeric control with binary cutter location. This is a universal programming language which can be automatically translated into the different "languages" Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Paying Better JL ones. 544-344- 5 |