Summaries of all ten tapes:
TAPE #1 (THIS ITEM)-Scott Staley & Robert Delosh, comments. Introductions.
Facilitator Ben Broome - begins first NOMINAL GROUP TECHNIQUE (NGT) on ATTRIBUTES of Analytical Powertrain
TAPE #2 (CLICK HERE)- Facilitator Ben Broome records all ATTRIBUTES, begins CLARIFICATIONS.
TAPE #3 (CLICK HERE)- Facilitator Ben Broome completes all CLARIFICATIONS & RANKING, begins ISM.
TAPE #4 (CLICK HERE)- Facilitator Ben Broome. Group is constructing ATTRIBUTES FIELD, using ISM.
TAPE #5 (CLICK HERE)- Broome: Categories - ATTRIBUTES FIELD. Keever: Begins new NGT, on PROBLEMS.
TAPE #6 (CLICK HERE)- Facilitator David Keever. Recording & CLARIFICATION of Problem Statements.
TAPE #7 (CLICK HERE)- Facilitator David Keever completes CLARIFICATIONS & RANKING, begins ISM.
TAPE #8 (CLICK HERE)- David Keever facilitates OPTIONS FIELD. Roxana Cardenas begins--ISM.
TAPE #9 (CLICK HERE)- Facilitator Roxana Cardenas continues ISM with group working to construct a PROBLEMATIQUE.
TAPE #10 (CLICK HERE)- Roxana Cardenas facilitates completion of ISM for PROBLEMATIQUE.
Ben Broome gives WORKSHOP SUMMARY.
Group members and Robert Delosh give ClOSING REMARKS
Each tape is approximately 2 hours long, except for TAPE #10, the final tape, which is one hour in length.
Ford APT 1 SERIES has ID numbers 10017 and 10097 to 10105 inclusive, and can be seen by clicking the links to tapes 1 - 10 in the summary paragraph above.
ID number 10028 is a series of 4 slow-speed tapes, which include all 10 ten lectures.
This series of ten videotapes is available in hard copy, as VHS cassettes at Fenwick Library's Warfield Special Collection C0016 Box 55. The videotapes are not yet digitized but it is planned to convert them to MPG4 files in the near future so that they may become available online from MARS the George Mason University Warfield Digital Collection. (r.w. July 8, 2017)
“Analytical Powertrain” was a conceptual system to be designed for enabling Ford engineers to design vehicular power trains on a computer, which was intended to diminish substantially the amount of time required to design power trains for new Ford vehicles. Scott Staley, in his role at Ford's Research Lab Department of Computer Engineering, was hopeful of improving the existing planning system. Scott had learned of the George Mason University's Interactive Management program in the late 1980’s, while in attendance at an IEEE SYSTEMS CONFERENCE. Scott was able to obtain Ford research funding to engage Warfield and his team as consultants to perform this three-day workshop, the First Interactive Management Workshop on Design of an Analytical Powertrain. Over a period of the next of 3 or 4 years, Warfield and his Interactive Management team, working with Scott Staley and Ford personnel, were successful in training Ford engineers to perform the workshops and run the ISM software, with the goal that Workshops of this type could become self-sustaining within the corporation.
Analytical Powertrain Workshop Number 1 was the first of a series of five Interactive Management Workshops held at Ford in the year 1992. All five workshops were filmed from start to finish and George Mason University Library has all of them on unedited cassette tape in Box 55, Fenwick Library.
SPONSOR:The workshop was sponsored by Robert G. DeLosh, Powertrain Systems Office, Ford Motor Company
PRODUCER: Scott M. Staley, Department of Computer-aided Engineering, Ford Research Laboratory, Ford Motor Company.
PARTICIPANTS:: Alf Cederquist, Dennis Huser, Les Schonberg, Gene Schuler, Don Scott, Peter Sferro, Joseph Stout, John Tucker, Mark Tocco, Harley Wattrick and David Yun.
OBSERVERS: Craig Aylsworth, Charles Wu, Mariano Martin, Norman Smith, Ken Hubner, Neil Lawrence, Beverly Becker, Ann-Marie Krul, George Coveny, Dick Nahabetian, Curtis Druckrey, Robert DeLosh & Vish Narayan
FACILITATORS: Benjamin J. Broome; A. Roxana Cardenas; David B. Keever.
WORKSHOP STAFF: Philip Tuchinsky, Daniel Fagan and Nanxin Wang.
We had two copies of the APT - 1 videos. We shipped one set of 10 tapes to GMU and the other set to Arizona State Univ
(r.w. 2/22/2007)
