Visual Machine/Visual Lubrication
December 18, 2014
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
[Download MP3] [itunes] [Bookmark Episode]
Episode Description
Did you know: 70% to 80% of all machine failures are due to lubrication problems? Chief among the many reasons is: People don’t realize lubrication is the cause or there is something they can do about it. Did you also know that the most common response to a lubrication problem is to add more—even though over-lubrication is one of the six BIG lube mistakes? The result? Machine downtime, lost production, bad quality—and often wrecked machines. Proper machine lubrication is a serious challenge; it is also a huge opportunity. Listen as Gwendolyn Galsworth, your host and visual expert, shares her machine lubrication approach: visual and effective. Don’t expect her to name the right vs. wrong type of oil, grease or process lubes. Do expect to learn how to build a visual lube function—and how your people, tools, and targets can make it so. As part of that, she walks through those six BIG lube mistakes—and, as time permits, the visual part of their solutions. Let the workplace speak!
Visual Workplace Radio: Let the Workplace Speak
Archives Available on VoiceAmerica Business Channel
Visual Workplace Radio: Let the Workplace Speak offers the best in practical tools, methods, and strategies for improvement leaders who want to apply workplace visuality and harness its remarkable cultural and bottom line contribution. Visuality: you can’t get to excellence without it.
Each week, award-winning author and foremost visual workplace expert, Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth, targets new learning and applications through a range of formats, case studies, interviews with business leaders and topic experts.
Whether yours is a factory, hospital, military depot, bank, office or dry cleaners, get informed, get inspired, get visual.
Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, PhD, is president and founder of Visual Thinking Inc. and The Visual-Lean Institute(r), a training, consulting, and research firm in visual workplace technologies. Over a period of 30 years, Dr. Galsworth has codified the field of visuality into a single coherent framework of thinking and application called the 10-Doorway Model.
In 2005, Dr. Galsworth established the Visual-Lean(r) Institute where in-house and external trainers are licensed in nine core visual workplace courses.
Four of her nine courses are now available as on-line training systems (English/Spanish), with more to come. Galsworth is author of seven books, including two Shingo Prize winners: Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking and Work That Makes Sense, available from her website and Amazon.
Dr. Galsworth began in the 1980s as the head of training/development at Productivity Inc. She worked closely with Dr. Ryuji Fukuda to adapt the CEDAC(r) method for western companies, and with Dr. Shigeo Shingo to develop, among many things, poka-yoke for the West. She was principal developer of Visual Factory, TEIAN (operator-led suggestion systems), and the X-Type Matrix.
A Fellow on the Shingo Institute Faculty and former Baldrige and Shingo Examiners, Galsworth has led study missions to some of the world’s finest companies, including in Japan. Dr. Galsworth lives in New England where she happily works, hikes, and writes.
