Profit-Ability, LLC

April 23 2017

Achieving the Summit of World Class Performance (WCP)

Jose' Wilkins Business Intelligence Management Business Sustainability, Execution Excellence, KPIs, Operational Excellence, performance measure, profitability, Training 0

To achieve WCP requires that an organization achieve profit-driven process reliability through continuously executing and improving in all systems. A holistic approach or plan must include a focused blend of people, technology, and process improvement initiatives. Many companies have embarked on an asset management or continuous improvement journey but have fallen short of achieving world class and high cultural performance; never realizing[…]

April 19 2017

Paul Barringer Legacy

Jose' Wilkins Process Reliability business case, business management, capital project, hidden capacity, hidden plant, Lean, manufacturing, Monte Carlo Simulation, Operations, probability, production, QMAX$, reliability, Six Sigma, Weibull Analysis 0

Paul Barringer passed away on 12/21/2016. He was many things to me over the years including a mentor, colleague, and friend.I first met Paul in the summer of 2000 during the 15th year of my professional engineering career and in the midst of pursuing higher levels of management along the corporate ladder. Prior to this […]

August 16 2016

Operational Execution – The New Sustainability “KPI”

Jose' Wilkins Operational Excellence business reliability, human systems, KPIs, performance measure, proactive work, production, profitability, reactive work, sustainability, system effectiveness 0

The following article represents the work of John Tomer – “Understanding High Performance Work Systems: The Joint Contribution of Economics and Human Resource Management”. Upon reflection of Mr. Tomer’s work and comparison of my extensive industrial experience, I concluded that our views are consistent and I will reference some of those views in the following […]

August 15 2016

Business Reliability Drives Sustainable Profits

Jose' Wilkins Reliability availability, business case, capital, engineering, equipment systems, failure elimination, human systems, improvement, Lean6, maintenance, MUDA, operating systems, paradigms, performance measure, probability, profitability, RCM, reliability, ROI, sustainability, system effectiveness, TPM, value 0

Availability ≠ Maintenance ≠ Reliability Source: H. Paul Barringer-2008 *Profit-Ability, LLC views are consistent with H. Paul Barringer and the following content is a derivative of his work. It is common for availability, maintenance and reliability to be discussed interchangeably across industry. In this article, we will share our opinion using simple definitions to explain why […]

August 14 2016

World Class Excellence Requires Organizational Discipline

Jose' Wilkins Operational Excellence availability, human systems, operating systems, organizational discipline, Pareto, performance measure, sustainability, system effectiveness, world class 0

Driving to achieve the pinnacle of eXcellence in World Class Performance demands that organizational discipline is a focus and companies flawlessly eXecute and improve in ALL systems that are delivering valuable goods or services to the market place. Many plant cultures typically point to equipment failures issues when capacity losses occur. It is a daily no-win […]