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Fredricka West rebuilds a HMU in the depot’s Turbine Engine Facility. On her computer are the electronic work instructions for the process.
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Dar Harper reads the work scope for an AGT 1500 engine in the disassembly area of the Turbine Engine Facility. The work scope outlines the repair and overhaul processes needed for an individual engine under the condition-based overhaul program.
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Megan Honea cleans and inspects a splined gear shaft in the Turbine Engine Facility.
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Boyd Howard performs an acceptance test on an AGT 1500 engine at Anniston Army Depot’s Turbine Engine Facility.
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Matt Hughes lowers a basket of parts into a hot water vat in the depot’s Turbine Engine Facility. Having cleaning vats located in the building ensures an efficient parts flow.
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Autumn Mayo, left, and Sarrah Hunter, current interns in the depot’s college cooperative education program, disassemble HMUs.
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Dan Jones, left, and Wesley Woodard, engineering technicians for the depot’s Directorate of Production, inspect an AGT 1500 engine prior to disassembly as part of the Turbine Engine Facility’s condition-based overhaul program.
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Corey Rowell, left; Harrow Miller, center; and Sterling Price assemble AGT 1500 engine in Anniston Army Depot’s Turbine Engine Facility.
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ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT, Ala. -- In 2007, Anniston Army Depot's Turbine Engine Facility earned the Shingo Bronze medallion based on the standardization processes in place for work on the AGT 1500 turbine engine.
Since that time, numerous changes have come to the shop.
In 2007, most AGT 1500 engines brought onto the depot and into the Turbine Engine Facility were treated exactly the same way - disassembled down to their components and the components sent to various areas for rework, then the components and a standard kit of new parts met in the assembly area to be put together prior to testing.
Each station, each area, each employee performed the same work on engine after engine.
Today, the condition-based overhaul utilized by the shop requires each engine to be reviewed individually. After inspection, the components are repaired or overhauled per work instructions.
Other changes are evident as well.
The inclusion of machining, metalizing and cleaning equipment from another shop enabled the facility to be a one-stop shop for all turbine engines.
New test cells came in 2009 and now, just over 10 years later, are being upgraded.
The seam welding machines are also in the process of being updated.
The mechanics themselves have also changed. Today, more than a fourth of all employees in the shop came through the depot's cooperative education program.
And those employees all work from instructions delivered electronically to computers at their work station.
These Electronic Manufacturing Operation and Tooling instructions assist employees in every facet of the production processes.
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