Artifact Details

Description

From the official program:

"In recent years there has been a decline in U.S. industrial competitiveness. CALS (Computer-Aided Logistics Support) is a DoD strategy to improve productivity and reduce costs. The CALS initiative aims at making the transition from paper-intensive, non-integrated product design, manufacturing and support to a highly integrated mode of operation. By focusing on prime contractors and their suppliers in the produrement of new weapon systems, CALS is encouraging productivity-investement throughout all of U.S. industry.

This seminar will examine the issues motivating the CLAS initiative and discuss how CALS principles were used to successfully develop one of America's most technologically sophisitcated computer systems. John Manzo will review the benefits and leassons learned. He will then recommend how viewers cna help their companies prepare for - and get the most our of - CALS approach to meeting the productivity challenge of the 1990s."

Please note that this tape is in poor condition, there is consistent tracking issues and jitter throughout the entire tape.

Date

1990-04-16

Participants

Manzo, John, Speaker

Publisher

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Format

VHS

Collection Title

Digital Equipment Corporation records

Series Title

Moving images: DEC libraries' A/V holdings

Credit

Gift of Hewlett-Packard Company

Lot Number

X2675.2004

Related Records

102781518

Computer-Aided Logisitcs Support (CALS) : a strategy for U.S. industrial