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Show ©Hilltop Tunes September 9, 2004 Employees become clockmakers for training program Ms. Mallis said. "They truly become employees of Time Wise Inc., which brings them in to an active training enviOgden ALC Public Affairs ronment versus just having them watch a briefing about Lean." As part of a unique training program underway through"By looking at things from this perspective, they really out the Electronics Division here, 1,200 Hill personnel will begin to see how to make things run more efficiently," said be temporarily employed as clockmakers for a fictional comTime Wise instructor Tim Craner. "Our goal is to teach them pany called Time Wise Inc., throughout the coming months. ' how to use this new perspective in their work areas." The employees will work for Time Wise Inc., during their So far, classes have been made up of about 40 people who participation in a one-of-a-kind training program, of the same are broken out into two separate production areas and usuname, where they will learn how to streamline routine work the Air Force to eliminate waste from processes. processes to eliminate waste. 'Time Wise demonstrates to our employees that Lean really ally end up competing in the fictional marketplace as comThe Maintenance Directorate's Electronics Division began is about common sense and that it's a different way of look- panies would in the real world. ing at the way we do things," Ms. Mallis said. "The training participants have a lot of fun and can get a the training course in June as a way to increase employee awareness to the necessity of change and elimination of The temporary clock company "employees" will build clocks,bit competitive," said Ms. Mallis. "We've even seen employees go so far as to use industrial espionage to outwit the other waste. So far, about 360 employees have received the working as a team to respond to common production and training and the Division plans to train its remaining 840 per- manufacturing scenarios that depict a common factory work team". sonnel in the coming months, said Kathy Mallis, the Divienvironment. Time Wise trainees deal with mountains of Employee reaction to the Time Wise training has been sion's Process Improvement Team supervisor. paperwork, parts ordering, and even a difficult supervisor, great, added Ms. Mallis. Class participant Mark Forbes said that the hands-on method graphically illustrated how processes Time Wise immerses the training participants in an eight- said Craig Harris, a Time Wise instructor. hour, hands-on course that teaches them the use of Lean At the erid of the day, course participants take a clock they can be improved by utilizing Lean techniques. And, class participants Bob Chance and Jeanne Page said the groups principles to increase productivity. Lean is a time-tested manufactured as a reminder of their Lean experience. became teams, and they worked out their problems together. methodology being used across Hill AFB and throughout "(The trainees) have to deal with some real nightmares," by Karl Tllton Process Improvement Moving rewind workload nets $152K award But when a supply problem with the C-5 Main engineering costs and helped earn him the oped the plan to rewind the exciter stators locally instead of buying them from a supplier 'Generator Exciter Stator forecasted a short- Category 4 ALC Civilian of the Quarter Awarcf Ogden ALC Public Affairs age, Mr. Carrion decided to prevent the short- for the second quarter. — at a savings of nearly 50 percent per stafrom affecting the generator shop's workload.Not new to the IDEA program, Mr. Carrion age tor. A generator rewind shop technician here Having previously reverse engineered the has previously engineered, developed and The generator exciter stator is the portion is saving the Air Force more than $152,000 excitor stator for the C-130, he was confiproduced a tool used in rewinding a C-130 genof the generator that provides the initial electhrough a suggestion he submitted through dent he could use the knowledge he'd gained erator, and wrote the technical order for the the Innovative Development through Employeetrical power required.to start the generator. to reverse engineer a C-5 exciter stator. tool. He received another IDEA award for savThe exciter contains coils of copper wire that Awareness — IDEA— program. Jason Carrion, who has since moved to the produce electrical current when they revolve He rebuilt and tested five C-5 excitor stators, ing the Air Force $59,000. Industrial Services Division, completed inno- in near-contact with other elements of the gen-and succeeded in having the rebuilt excitors . Hundreds of Hill employees have participated in the IDEA Program and have had their engineer-approved. vative work to make the rewind of C-5 Gen- erator. erator Exciter Stators part of the workload The rewind shop tears down, strips and then Being the resident expert in the rewind, Mr. suggestions approved. To submit an idea, completed by the Maintenance Directorate's rewires by hand the copper coils found inside Carrion wrote and illustrated the rewind tech- visit https://ideas.randolph.af.mil and follow Electronics Division. of generators. nical order, which was approved without any the prompts. Hill leads the Air Force in numbers of submissions and approvals. For more Mr. Carrion disassembled, documented the Previously, the C-5 exciter was removed from changes. 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