The Fifth Interactive Management Workshop On Design Of An Analytical Powertrain was known informally as "Analytical Powertrain Workshop (APT -5)"  or quite often as "Ford  Culture Workshop" because of the emphasis placed on non-technical factors which can influence the outcome of technical engineering projects. At Fenwick Library, the  VHS cassettes are in Box 86, and the DVD album is in Box 88  of Warfield Collection.

There were five A.P.T. Interactive Management Workshops in 1992, with this December workshop as the last one. Fenwick Library has a lot more papers from the year when IM was first introduced to middle management staffers and engineers at Ford Motor Company.  I have not been able to catalog all the Ford papers, but they are findable by a Ford keyword search of the Warfield Collection C0016 at Fenwick Library. Many titles for example are in Box 22, Folders 2, 3, 4, and 11 - not digitized but available in paper copy. 

Ten or fifteen years after A.P.T.-5 was filmed, Warfield's 18 page guide got its start during a summer visit by a daughter and son-in-law (Nancy & David Gray) who watched the DVD album. For their viewing Warfield scribbled a few pages of notes when they asked for a commentary of some sort to help beginners understand what was happening onscreen.  After Nancy and David's visit had ended, John Warfield sat in the living room of our house in Sheffield, Alabama during May of 2007 and watched the entire set of 8 DVDs, making written comments on what was happening onscreen, and why. He used his "Notes" while teaching his July 2007 short course, since I found a manuscript of this document in his box of papers for that course.  

Warfield's manuscript had been printed in 6 point font!  It fits as tiny pages inside a tiny green spiral memo notebook intended as a handy companion booklet while watching DVDs on a computer monitor. He also created a little 6 point font index for his green memo book. Rose Warfield changed the font to readable 12 point, and also added the index to create a version of the tiny green notebook that is now a manuscript --18 pages of comments by John Warfield on the conduct of the IM workshop, step by step through the videotaped sessions. Rose’s 18 page version needs to be shaped up with a little editing, to get topics and paragraphs together on the same page, but I just don't have time to stop and do that now, just thank the Lord that I actually found green notebook and got the thing into the database. You are welcome.

R.W. August, 2007

*Warfield created two of these guides in May 2007, the other one is for the Product Information Management workshop held January 1994, also donated to GMU, and also on Rose’s computer available for download.

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