Center goes old school with mission control room Published July 15, 2011 By Wayne Crenshaw 78 ABW/PA ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. -- Walk into the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center's new mission control room and you might think you're in the wrong place. There are no computers, no telephones and no tables. There's not even a flat-screen TV on the wall. The only furniture is a small desk, three chairs, a flip chart and a dry-erase board. Charts lining the walls are the key feature. The idea for the room came from a Transformation Plan of Care event in April. It will be the location of a weekly meeting of top Center leaders. The charts give information and statistics tracking progress of units in the Center toward meeting Center Commander Maj. Gen. Robert McMahon's goal of making Robins "A world class center of excellence." The charts track such things as on-time delivery, safety, quality, cost-cutting measures, continuous process improvement initiatives and more. On Tuesday, the inaugural meeting was conducted. McMahon started with the chart in one corner outlining the center's vision and goals, then went around the room chart by chart. It's a radical departure from the mind-numbing PowerPoint presentations often used in such meetings. He made clear he expects audience participation as leaders outline progress of their units. "The expectation is that peers will be very hard on peers, but it's all to get us back to the vision of this organization to be world class," McMahon told the group. Each unit will be responsible for continuously updating information related to that organization. The meeting began with what may be the world's first song about Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st Century - the program used for promoting process improvement. C-5 management analyst Clay Dykes played guitar and sang a song he wrote after an AFSO21 training event he attended. He was accompanied by C-130 electrician Adam Butler on bass guitar and friend Adam Hull on drums. In the audience-participation spirit of the meeting, Dykes wrote the chorus on the dry-erase board so others could join in. "I've been involved with AFSO21 for 11 years and that's the first Lean song I've ever heard," McMahon said.