Initiatives remain a priority for Robins senior leadership Published Jan. 15, 2010 By Wayne Crenshaw 78 ABW/PA ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. -- A year ago a group of top leaders at Robins met at a retreat and came up with four focus areas with five specific initiatives aimed at improvements in every aspect of operations in the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center. Much has been done to achieve those goals and much more is left to do. "It is a work in progress," said Lori Freeman, chief of the strategic planning office. "We are moving toward working all these initiatives and action plans. It takes an integrated, combined effort with everyone." Called P3I, the four focus areas are people, process, performance and infrastructure: ►People: Improve labor/management relations and enhance the work-force by cultivating first- class leadership. ►Process: Build on a foundation of innovation. ►Performance: Enhance performance and reputation of the ALC. ► Infrastructure: Incentivize infrastructure/cost control and use energy consumption as a test bed. The four focus areas are broken down into five specific initiatives, with one each for process, performance and infrastructure and two for people. The two people initiatives are: Improve Labor/Management relations by fostering trust, confidence and respect through positive labor/management relations; and Enhance the workforce by cultivating first-class leadership, which includes "developing today's workforce for tomorrow's challenges," and providing leadership training to better address gaps and needs. The process initiative is to "build on our foundation of innovation" through redeploying Continuous Process Improvement skills and capabilities across the Center to affect five major process innovations using the High Velocity Maintenance enterprise innovation model. The performance initiative is to enhance the performance and reputation of the ALC through an integrated ALC team approach to 95 percent aircraft due date delivery performance on four aircraft production lines during a 36-mnoth period, with less than 10 percent aircraft maintenance schedule change. The infrastructure initiative is to incentivize infrastructure/cost control and use energy consumption as a test bed with an aim of a 10 percent energy reduction by October. Freeman noted that while the initiatives outlined were already priorities of Center leaders, P3I puts those in greater focus with a move toward specific objectives in each area. "The purpose in picking these focus areas is to align the center to work on key priorities for the Center," she said. "To identify improvements and move the Center forward, it helps us focus on key things we need to work, need to improve. All of the wings and staff are working specific initiatives that support their focus area."