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Show - A FA recognizes senior manager $41 million saved percent." Hamel also engineered a i25 million jusHn-om- e bushing program with the Defense Logistics Agency. Bushings are the threads bolts fit into on landing gear, which consumes more than 400 bushings a day. Contracts were developed and put into operation so that bushings can be ordered, manufactured and delivered within 72 hours through the use of communicating need over the Internet This increase in efficiency reduced bushing cost from $118.58 to $42.03. To date, almost 45,000 bushings have been ordered, saving approximately $3 million tax dollars and increasing support to the warfighter in the field Through the programs Hamel pioneered, customers not only got their products faster and at better cost per unit, but also are able ta plan better, because they know when their order wiD be filled and even where it is on the assembly line. . Hamel was supposed to receive his award in late September, 2001, butthe terrorist attacks postponed that Hamel was in Washington D.C. on his way to meetings at the Pentagon when that building was by Gary Boyle Hilttcp T.mes start Increasing production while reducing cost and strengthening .erica's Air Force is how Doug Hamel won the Ar Force Associations Outstanding Senior Civilian Manager of the Year Award it ILJ tlT JtXI'l. "To win an y X award like this, a person has to be put into a dire situation order to have the opportunity to do what we did. It Cock a lot wl U'iks in landing gear, 5iX) of them, working together to puil us up to where we needed to be," said Hamel who was the chief of Landing Gear Division for more than four years and is now deputy r of the Mature and Proven Aircraft Directorate. Aivr the Cold War, downsizing had reduced landing gear opera-.nr- . by "i percent and mission incapable problems for just the s were running at over a million hours a year. Quite simply, VlICAPs were grounding the Air Force fleet Turn around was in lin-r- C-l.- K -- ritial. "MICAPs were through the roof because production had been o;i hack to) much. When I got there, there were only 300 workers -- v'i.jn I left there were 600. We doubled manpower and work i,ai! to 700.(XX) hours." said Hamel. "We cut our hourly production ";st by S2D which equates into an annual savings of $41 million for he iaxpayer. We cut costs by increasing our workload." As production got back on track, Hamel then turned his focus providing greater support to his customers. "A program manager came to me about: an airman who had a ques-:i,- n that no one couid answer. I called him and found outhe had an d axle. inspection up on jacks in need of a H wanted to know how soon he could get a new one, if he could gH one in a few weeks he'd leave the plane up on jacks, saving lots Courtesy Pttota Doug Hamel, right, receives a handshake and the Atr Force Association's Outstanding Senior Civilian Manager of the Year Award for 2001 from AFA Utah president Brad Sutton. said Hamel " I was shocked to discover our of time and effort," automated systems couldn't provide an answer, instead we had to go out and manually find the airman an answer. It took a week to get the airman his answer. "Probably the most important change I made was the implementation of a maintenance repair and overhaul automated system that laid the foundation for the "ship on time" program which reduced flow days from 40 weeks to 14 weeks and led the plant from 15 percent delivery to over 60 percent, an improvement of 400 ' left-han- V-- on-ti- struck "I was there for some depot meetings with a group from H11J. We were on our way down the escalator when the windows above us bent with the shock wave as the jet hit the Pentagon and the. sny went ciacK wiun smone irom tne names, we unrneaiaieiy went back upstairs to our rooms and watched what was happening on television. We had some meetings later on in the week with people whose office shared a wall with the section that burned. It had become so hot where they were that the paint had bubbled," Hamel said. "We were there for a week and every night we'd go to a hill overlooking the Pentagon and there were people holding candlelight vigils there. 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