Erik Hupje
Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management Leader
Brisbane City (4000) Australia (Queensland)
Professional Status
Employed
Available
About Me
Genuine Maintenance & Reliability leader with credibility up and down the line. 20+ years’ experience in the Upstream Oil & Gas sector worldwide. Can effectively challenge the status quo and deliver change. Experience in managing teams up to 40 FTE and execution crews up to 300 FTE. Positive approach with excellent delivery ethic. Strong in simplifying complex situations, driving delivery, and improving performance.
Areas of expertise:
Areas of expertise:
- Maintenance execution, planning & scheduling, maintenance strategy development and implementation (RCM, RBI, PMO), maintenance contract management, SAP-PM
- Asset Integrity & Process Safety Management
- Operations Readiness & Assurance and Asset Management
Many implementations of Maintenance Planning and Scheduling fail. Often because senior management was never on board to begin with. In this article I’ll show you how to fix that. I’ll show you how to sell planning & scheduling to your CEO. And in such a way that he actually wants you to implement it successfully. I’ll talk about your ‘CEO’, but it could also be your Plant Manager that you need to convince.
Creation date
10 Dec 2017
Most organisations that implement maintenance planning and scheduling do not achieve the long-term results they expected. Often the improvements don’t last, even when the initial implementation seemed successful. But, it doesn’t have to be like that. This article outlines a structured, proven approach that has worked in many organisations. An approach using basic project management principles. Combined with a strong focus on change management.
Creation date
12 Dec 2017
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis – or FMEA for short – is widely used across many industries. Often in the design phase of new equipment. But also to troubleshoot poor performing equipment. In this article I will give a detailed overview of FMEA’s. The origin of FMEAs, when to use them and how to conduct an FMEA. I’ve also included an easy to use FMEA template. This is a long and detailed post, I will always bring it back to our main focus. And that is how to use FMEAs to improve plant reliability.
Creation date
25 Apr 2018
No matter what industry or which country you look at, maintenance performance is pretty poor on average. That’s obviously not a good thing. But what makes it worse is that the principles of modern maintenance management have been well defined and documented for a good 30+ years. So why, after all this time, do so few organisations achieve excellent maintenance performance?
Creation date
23 Dec 2017
Across industry, many definitions are used when it comes to the different types of maintenance. It can quickly get confusing when people talk about preventive maintenance, condition based maintenance or predictive maintenance but actually have something else in mind than you do. Some people get very excited about these definitions and can spend a lot of time on for example disagreeing with what is and what isn’t preventive maintenance. Let’s not do that, instead, I’ll offer you my view of the different types of maintenance and more importantly, when to use them.
Creation date
21 Jun 2018
In this article, I provide a brief history of the development of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM). And from there we explore 9 Principles of a Modern Preventive Maintenance Program. As a maintenance & reliability practitioner you should know these principles and live by them.
Creation date
03 Feb 2018
Maintenance Planning & Scheduling is one of the 4 Essential Elements on the Road to Reliability™. Planning & scheduling, or work management as it’s often called, ensures the right work gets done, at the right time, with the right tools, materials, and people. Without an effective maintenance planning & scheduling process, you’ll never achieve high reliability. In this article, I’ll explain why that’s the case. I’ll also give an overview of what a planning & scheduling process should look like.
Creation date
22 Nov 2017
