REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. -- The Army announced the 2013 Lean Six Sigma Excellence Awards Program (LEAP) winners July 11 with the U.S. Army Materiel Command garnering three awards.
Headquarters Army Materiel Command and Joint Munitions Command both received organizational awards. Tobyhanna Army Depot received a project team award.
"All of the AMC Continuous Process Improvement staff, regardless of location, deserves recognition and in fact, the Organizational Deployment Award is awarded for the sum of all the great Lean Six Sigma work done within our Life Cycle Management Commands, arsenals, and depots," said Susan Cole, director of the CPI division in AMC.
- Army Materiel Command received an organizational award for completing 717 Lean Six Sigma projects during the year and garnering $87.7 million in financial benefits during the year, approximately 4.6 percent of the command budget.
- Joint Munitions Command completed Lean Six Sigma projects providing $40.8 million in total financial benefits, or 5.5 percent of the total budget.
- Tobyhanna Army Depot, under Communications and Electronics Life Cycle Management Command, was honored for reducing its materiel induction Process Lead Time from 2.7 days to 0.84 days. The elimination of the steps resulted in monthly savings of 229 man-hours. The cost avoidance was calculated for the period ranging from a portion of Fiscal Year 13 (Apr-Sep) through Fiscal Year 15 and totaled $457,634 and a 99.8 percent reduction of process defects.
"In today's fiscally constrained environment, the need to apply Continuous Process Improvement continues to grow. Lean Six Sigma has been the foundation for the Army Materiel Command to gain efficiencies while ensuring quality since 2002," said Cole. "Our work is not done. We must continue to grow and sustain these organic capabilities as the Army moves forward and evolves into the future force."
The LEAP program was established by the Secretary of the Army and Chief of Staff of the Army to recognize outstanding organizations and project teams that demonstrate excellence in implementing results-driven process improvement projects.
Lean Six Sigma is a proven concept that American manufacturing, service, and healthcare industries have successfully pioneered and adopted to improve processes and reduce costs. LSS uses a data-driven approach and methodology for eliminating defects and variation reduction from product to service. This enables the Army to make more cost-effective use of taxpayer dollars while better serving Soldiers and their families.
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Lt. Gen. Patricia McQuistion, deputy commanding general of AMC, accepted the LEAP awards on behalf of AMC in a formal ceremony at the Pentagon Hall of Heroes, Sept. 3.
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