Reliability and Maintenance at Arnold Engineering Development Center

64 Pages·2011·3.25 MB·English

AEDC Journey to Excellence:
Creating a Sustainable Culture of
Reliability and Safety
David Hurst & Ramesh Gulati
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Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA)
Arnold Air Force Base, TN
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Presented @ NASA F2F Annual Meeting
Nashville, TN
10-13 May, 2011
Air Force Materiel Command
Arnold Engineering Development Center
Arnold Air Force Base, TN 37389
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 Introduction
◦ Safety “Beyond Zero” moment
◦ AEDC overview
 Our Journey … to Excellence
◦ Where we were and where we are headed?
◦ Creating a safe operating environment
◦ World class maintenance practices – award winning
Program
 Creating a reliability and safe culture
◦ Designing for reliability and safety
◦ Workforce development
◦ Management support / involvement
 Challenges in creating a sustainable culture
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 Number 1 Priority!
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Each and EVERY person goes home at the end of their
shift in BETTER shape than when they arrived!
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Physically
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Mentally
 What’s Acceptable? – What’s Not?
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 Possibility Thinking:
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Stretch to what could be.
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What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
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How are Beyond Zero and Asset Management coupled?
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 Focus on specific target issues
◦ Training/education
◦ Daily tool box topics
◦ Daily stretching program
 Leadership commitment
◦ Safety Walks – Hazard Abatement Verification
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Eliminate Hazards on the spot
◦ Visit every accident site
◦ Escort accident victims to dispensary
 Safety minutes – All meetings
 Safety Learning Observations
 Eliminate unsafe conditions – “Just Fix It”
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Culture beyond WHAT IT IS
avoiding what is
Personal stand
notwanted;
that no one be
instead learning
injured on or
how to generate
off the job
what iswanted.
Integrated
Integrated
Processes
Processes
Belief in the
Organizational
possibility of being
commitment
Beyond ZeroSM
to be free of
Mindset
incident and
Intolerant of
injury
any incident or
injury
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place
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It is people
about responsible the safe
about and
more for their path
creating their
processes safety as well because
culture families
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Safety becomes a passion.
•We look out for ourselves and all around us 24/7.
•Caring Centered.
•Connect to individuals & loved ones.
•Accidents become learning & teaching opportunities.
Statistics & ratios measure progress only.
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• Delivering improvement in all three measures of performance
• Keeping our co-workers and families safer here and at home
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Best Ever: Achieved 436,000 work hours per E1 (10% better than P10)
Best Ever: Delivered over 3.8M hours since our last lost workday event
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