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irn (above) and in robotic production applicatiocs (overlay).entered the aerospace industry's vocabulary. Terrain-
foowing radar was born here, as was the world's first
fully fly-by-wire flight control system.
This willingness to pursue engineering and manufac-
turing innovations has paid off with the F-16-out-
standing in the visual ground attack role (as Gun-
smoke '85 made abundantly clear), without peer in
aerial combat maneuvering capability (proven by its
remarkable record in dissimilar air combat training
exercises), and statistically the safest single-engine
fighter in aviation history (see related article in this
magazine).
Facts. All facts. But they don't tell the whole story.
Innovative efforts at the Fort Worth Division are
hardly confined to aircraft design. For instance, pro-
duction methods are constantly being investigated for
better ways to "insert tab A into slot B." (Robots are
part of the answer here.) And the materials used in
production are also changing. Would you believe a
plastic airplane? It's coming.
Long-term planning and dynamic programs are in
place to ensure an ongoing effort to cut costs, auto
mate production processes, and implement newer,
more effective manufacturing technologies. It is con-
servatively estimated that by 1990 these efforts will
have reduced production costs by over a half-billion
dollars.
General Dynamics' production improvement/tech-
nology modernization programs are guided by & stra-
tegic plan that includes every project either currently
in work or planned, their start dates, major mile-
stones, and the type of funding-be it IRAD, CRAD,
technology modernization money, productivity
funds, or straight capital investments.
By the early 1990s, the Fort Worth DM on is plan-
ning to accomplish the following goa:
- Increase machine utilization by 15 prent
4 *- Reduce touch labor by 20 percent
- Reduce inventory 45 percent
- Reduce nontouch labor by 50 percent
- Reduce the engineering change to stock ,m (the
time from when a change is released fr 'ar tion
untif the part is stocked) by 70 percent- ,h a
quality improvement program to ensure that the
materials used are of the best possible quality.CODE ONE / 3
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