Video: "Best Plants Winners Interviews: Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control at Orlando"
In this session at the 2008 IW Best Plants Conference,
Mel Schubert and Matthew McCloud from 2007 IW Best Plants winner Lockheed Martin
Missiles and Fire Control at Orlando
addressed how their efforts and others drive manufacturing excellence throughout their facilities. They also
recalled some of the mistakes they made along the way, and answered attendee questions. The discussion was moderated by IndustryWeek editor at large David Drickhamer.
In This Presentation You Will Learn
- What Lean looks like at Lockheed Martin (in minute 9)
- What metrics Lockheed Martin measures (in minute 18)
- How "Managing Your Own Goals and Choosing Your Own Metrics" breed success at Lockheead Martin (in
minute 24)
- How to maintain a focus and extension to quality (in minute 27)
- Incentives for teams to help others (in minute 34)
- How to maintain flexibility in a high volume, low complexity environment (in minute 37)
- About Lockheed Martin's Leadership Development Program (in minute 51)
- and more
About the Plant
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control at
Orlando, Orlando, Fla. -- 2007 IW Best Plants Winner
Employees: 4,154, union
Total Square Footage: 2,667,638
Primary Product/market: targeting and detection systems for
the defense industry
Start-up: 1957
Achievements: EPA National Environmental Performance Track;
National Safety Council Excellence Achievement award; 100% on-time delivery, 99%
ROIC
Read more at: In Service of the "Ruby Gods": Extremely precise tolerances
drive innovation and standard work at Lockheed Orlando.
About the Speakers
Mel Schubert, Fire Control Factory Sr. Manager, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control in Orlando
Mel Schubert has more than 30 years of production operations and leadership experience. His competencies include aircraft detail fabrication, assembly and integration, missile fabrication assembly and test, radar fire control systems, and electro optical fire control systems.
Schubert is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a bachelor's of science in electrical engineering and a graduate of Pennsylvania State University with an Associate of Science in Electrical Engineering. He also holds a Masters of Science in Business Administration from Mount St. Mary's College and is a graduate of the Sourcing Leadership Institute as well as the Lockheed Martin Senior Leadership Development Institute.
Schubert is currently the fire control factory senior manager. He is directly responsible for the production of the Arrowhead, TADS, Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod, and GMS-2. He has been the driving force behind the manufacturing success of the Sniper ATP program in reducing cost to make it an affordable option. In addition, Schubert has accomplished a 100% on time delivery schedule while almost doubling production and decreasing Hours Per Unit on every program. He is constantly striving for improvement in his factory, and is dedicated to the Lean Six Sigma process of eliminating waste and reducing cost. He is currently responsible for the Production Operations of 240 employees.
Throughout his career, Schubert has been responsible for all phases of production operations during the development and production of various programs. He has successfully managed the Nite Hawk Electro Optical Targeting Systems and was responsible for operations in Orlando and Ocala, Fla. for the U.S. Navy. He has been the production operations manager for Arrowhead, TADS/PNVS, GMS-2, Sniper/ATP, Fire Control Radar, Final Assembly and Test, the Composites Center, Patriot, and Launcher. In addition, He was responsible for the planning and implementation of the PAC-1 to PAC-2 conversion, delivering the 1st PAC-2 patriot missiles that were used in Operation Desert Storm. Also, he has been the Planning and Control Manager of the Machine Shop, Electrical Center, Bonding and Ablative Center, Optics Center, and Transportation in support of numerous programs, including Pershing, Patriot, Copperhead, F-14 LST, PavePenny, TADS, and the Hellfire missile as well as Production Manager for the Fabrication Center, Machine Shop, Sheet Metal, Heat and Age Plating, Chemical Mill, and Composites Center. Lastly, Schubert has been responsible for the design and maintenance of all electrical systems in a 1.5M sq. ft. aircraft manufacturing facility for the A-10, F-14, B-747, and B-757 programs.
During his tenure at Lockheed Martin, Schubert has received numerous awards. Some of the most recent have been the Customer Award given by Colonel Fee of the U.S. Army, the IndustryWeek Best Plants award, the Diversity Leadership Award, the Quality Excellence Award, and the APEX Award.
Matthew McCloud, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control in Orlando
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