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...backup for every critical spot. Red River is also stocking more parts and requiring better quality from suppliers. The changes are paying off: the facility can turn out 32 mission-ready humvees a day, compared with three a week in 2004; the Lean process has lowered the cost of repair for one vehicle from...
...parts smoothly and quickly to each of the mechanics, whose tools were within easy reach. Evans is also taking some employees on site visits to efficient private-sector plants, like the British company BAE Systems' facility in York, Pa., where Bradley Fighting Vehicles are built. John Moore, a Bradley repair manager who has worked at Red River for 30 years, says he was skeptical of the new management regime at first. "I thought it was just going to put me out of a job," Moore says. "But I've turned around 180 degrees--I can see what an efficient shop...
Other Army facilities have seen similar results. Arkansas' Pine Bluff Arsenal reduced repair recycle time 90% and increased its production rate 50% on M-40 protective gas masks. Letterkenny Army Depot in Pennsylvania has saved $11.9 million in the cost of building the Patriot air-defense missile system...
...Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems, work hand in hand with Army staff on the factory floor. At Red River, for example, BAE spent thousands of dollars for new equipment and physical improvements to the plant. The company has also posted an on-site representative at Red River to oversee repair work on transmissions for BAE's Bradley. Working together, the BAE--Red River team increased output from 1.5 to 4 units per shift. In many Army facilities, the physical work, or "touch labor," is done by military staff, "but the crucial technical support is private industry," says Griffin...
...course, what works in a humvee repair shop may not translate to an air-conditioned cubicle. "While cost savings are easier to achieve and see in a production facility, how do we measure success in the legal department?" asks Ron Davis, a civilian executive at the Army Matériel Command. "We can't use 'cases lost.' But we could look at speeding up how long it takes to produce a paper. Or how we might be able to get a recruit into the system faster...