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Show - n rnaiimi'TT n iiir" rii'irriinTinrTrin - nTiTfimiiT unrir m fTrri iir amaagaa KEESSGSaa a Hill AFB, Utah A Vol. 55 No. 27, July 6, 84056-582- 4 2000 TTt i , i ? 'ter V 0,1 jp I K( vw:; r jSi- . moe "S, i moved to Hilltop Times Theres an old saying in logis- tics, The right part at the right time at the right place, and the Landing Gear shop has found they can satisfy that requirement by ordering their bushings Just In Time. Having always had what Maj. C.A. Allen, LIL deputy chief, While the relocation of the Pass and Registration Office to the West Gate has brought operations together under one roof, it has caused some confu- calls a shelf mentality, or order- ing and stocking an inventory of parts, the Landing Gear shop personnel have recently been adjusting to the implementation of a new system based on Japanese Just In Time inventory management. In the mid-80Japanese man- sion among users who still look for the office at the old location. The Pass and Registration Office is now located in Bldg. 1296, outside the West Gate. It provides passes for s, ufacturers pioneered a that created substantial efficiency from frequent deliveries of small quantities of parts, tration decals for pri- vately owned vehicles, temporary base registration for vehicles not yet registered in the owners name and ID cards for base civil- ian employees. Mil- itary are issued ID cards at the Military Personnel Flight cus- tomer service desk in Bldg. 180. For information on Pass and Registration services available, call Ext. 14 The office is open week- p.m., and closed weekends and federal holidays. The office is open on Reserve weekends until noon. 'pie South Gate Visitors Center is open weekdays from 7 a.m.-1- 1 p.m. This center provides visitor passes and vehicle registration decals. For more information, call Ext. or J ( sys- tem of inventory management base visitors, regis- days, v V, I i Hilltop Times online www.hilltoptimes.com 4- s f a standard size and machine the to Palmer, has been excellent, In June 1999, the shop received 200 JIT bushings per month, and they are now receiving as many as 1,200 JIT bushings per ri -- ?? ui R. Ford i 1 4 - - T: V"V i J klL as much time on one particular item. Were measuring an item, It gives us a chance to focus on the actual parts, said Master Sgt. Kenneth Pires, deputy chief of Metals Processing, and it moves along, well measure another, and when the bushings come in, well install them in that particular item. This way, were able to push more parts through the system. According to Pires, there is it smoothes our production of the hole for which they needed month, six times the original processes as far as moving them bushings, order a bushing in quantity. Delivery, according the parts out and getting line. out to the consistently arriving within 48 hours. , f W -ff bushings, ordered as a new supply system in part of Gear the Landing shop, are disfrom left, Todd played by, Palmer, Dynamic Research Corp. consulting engineer; Master Sgt. Kenneth Pires, deputy chief of metals processing; and Maj. C.A. Allen, LIL deputy chief. Left, a technician measures a bushing before ordering another part. s. steady growth from the inception of the program. - Photos by Steven noted that their delivery time He notes that there has been ' 4 Custom-fi- t was just We said, hey, weve been talking about this for almost a year now, and these guys are doing it, said Todd Palmer, a landing gear shop consulting engineer from Dynamic Research Corporation. It is real. It is possible, so lets do it in ourx shop. Palmer tackled the effort and soon JIT bushings were being ordered electronically over the Internet to exactly fit the holes. j" i: Ji "I f' 7, ment Team saw that B.F. Goodrich was able to order bushings to exactly fit their holes. The team 24-hour- - r-'V- af e- - has reduced its inventory and removed the machining labor from the loop. While on a trip to Florida, a Landing Gear Process Improve- meeting an immediate demand. This reduced the high cost of carrying an inventory and freed both capital and floor space. Previously, landing gear personnel would measure the size part to fit the hole. By ordering the bushings to exact mea V, v surement and specifications, and only as needed, the shop by Steven R. Ford West Gate 7 a.m.-- 4 H x. with new system Office or r? assembly We can move the parts quicker because were not spending See Parts, page 2 Recording team braves Nevada heat, sand by Staff Sgt. Doug Brunelle 367th Training Support Squadron While in your seat you hear a call over the desert wind Snake take the guys to the north Roger that Rifle. Taking the column to the north. Just then you hear a loud buzz and a deafening whine. Your attention goes to the big television screen and you see a tank disappear in cloud of dust. A second goes by before two thunderous booms shake your seat and the tank is engulfed in a fiery rage as black smoke fills the sky. Going to the movies has never been so good. Thanks to members of the 367th Training Support Squadrons Combat Camera team, viewers of the Capstone Orientation, Aerospace Power Demon- ' stration are taken as close to the danger zone as safely possible. Once a quarter the men and women of the 367th TRSS Media Production Flight help bring the Capstone audience made up of numerous high ranking DoD officials and newly promoted general officers right into the action. The Air Force Aerospace Power demonstrations are held outside Las Vegas, at the Nevada Test and Training range. demonstration shows airmen, pilots, This live-fir- e commanders, joint services leaders, congressional members, foreign allied dignitaries and other distinguished visitors, the speed and lethality of the Air Force. Numerous aircraft fly a dazzling array of missions over the Nevada desert dropping their ordnance about one to two miles away from the audi-ence. The 367th TRSS has been doing the Capstone shows for more than three "ears and accordins; to veterans on crew, every show they broadcast gets better, no matter what the conditions. The Nellis range is a challenge due to heat, dust and other extreme conditions. From one show to the next the temperature change can be as much as 50 degrees. While thousands of yards of video cable was necessary during the first two years to record the operation, cabling is now permanently in-plac- e, drastically decreasing set up time and troubleshooting procedures. These members must work as one and take orders from a single person, the television director. Don Broadhead, producer and director, with the help of Jim Sorensen, technical director, orches- D See Video, page 8 WWW Photo by Staff Sgt. Doug Brunelle A downed aircrew rescue sce- nario is documented by Senior Airman Jason Davis during the May 2000 Capstone, an aerospace power demonstration held at Nellis AFB, Nevada. Davis is a videog-raphwith Hill AFBs 367th Training Support Squadron. er |