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Show June 3, 1993 Integrated management improves customer support ational. Similar problems plagued the U.S. automotive and electronics industry. By changing their business needs-Accordi- ng - News Briefs Linen exchange hours change The operating hours for the linen exchange will Monday-Fridaeffective be changed to 8 a.m.-nooy, n, June 14. D.A.R.E. graduation Sixty-nin- e sixth-grader- s from Hill Field Elemen- tary School graduated from the Drug Abuse Resistance Education course in May. Students received 17 weeks of instruction on topics that cluded drug, alcohol and tobacco resistance, gang information and peer pressure. in- self-estee- R MON.-THUR- S. OOOOOOOOG product development concepts were used for years in Air Force Logistics Command and Air Force Systems Command. Integrated product development is being institutionalized through the integrated weapon system management philosophy that is the foundation for AFMC. Command officials feel that integrated product development is key to AFMC's success. It provides the framework to maximize limited resources and go beyond doing more with less to doing the right things with less. The integrated product development white paper is available on the computer-base- d IWSM Bulletin Board and will be available in the June update to the Air Force Acquisition Model. It also will be an attachment to the integrated product development guide that will be published in June. Veterans' fair next weekend A Veterans Information and Benefits Fair will be held June 12, 5 p.m., at Union Station in Ogden. 1-- The fair is sponsored by the Wasatch Front North Veterans Council. Included at the fair will be a job search and resume workshop from 3 to 4 p.m. Also available will be numerous agencies available to help veterans learn about entitlements. FRI. 10:00-5:0- 0 NOW OPEN SATURDAYS 10:00-5:3- 0 10:00-2:0- 0 Welcome To 11 "CASH II product development. Integrated . Squadron has instructed the course at the school for the past two years. "We have completed another successful year of D.A.R.E.," said Principal Pat McKay, "and I feel that the students, especially the sixth graders, have benefited from learning about resisting drugs." The program seems to be working. Two students in separate incidents were approached recently by someone offering cigarettes and the sale of marijau-na- . Both students refused, and were presented with Young Citizens Awards. Sgt. Michelle Colly of the 649th Security Police OPEN: instead of up and down the vertical, functional stovepipe. AFMC is no stranger to integrated ap- proaches from a functional emphasis (contracting, engineering, design and production) to a product team focus in the the place (concurrently designing products and right put right people Integrated product at the right time to make the right de- related production and support cisions to support customer processes, and a focus on product and development will be to a recently released customers) they improved their implemented throughout white paper, integrated product de- competitive positions. the command by the end velopment will be implemented The Ford Motor Company lost marthroughout the command by the end ket share to the Japanese with their of fiscal 1993, white of fiscal 1993. higher quality cars and shorter deand customer stresses The initiative velopment times. It abandoned its paper says. teamfast focus, functionally oriented approach to deresponse, product Wright-Patterso- n AFB, Ohio work and continuous improvement. velopment and formed a team of ( AFMCNS) The integrated weapon specialists to develop its highly sucdevelopment product Integrated is system management philosophy traces its roots to the 1986 President's cessful Taurus. making fundamental changes to the Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Motorola saved their company by way Air Force Materiel Command Management. Also known as the creating a new culture. They estabdoes business. Packard Commission, it sought to cor- lished department teams that paid less Its implementation throughout the rect a defense acquisition process that attention to organizational boundaries command will be facilitated by in- fielded systems that exceeded cost and and more attention to employee partegrated product development, a schedule and whose technology was ticipation. Their focus on the customer was across the functional organization major management initiative that will obsolete by the time they became oper 4-YO- U" CASH ADVANCES MADE SO EASY ANY "OLE" DAN CAN BORROW! Borrow Up To $200 On A Post Dated Check For Two Weeks!! 5 Hilltop Times Jj |