A summary of Wei Hao Tan,
Hao is very passionate about reliability and asset management. He strongly believes a RELIABLE plant is a SAFE plant. Having armed with both solid practical and modelling experience across broad reliability life cycle, he has been able to fully utilises the information in hand for the best outcome through various optimisation process. Which had successfully turned around multi-national asset-intensive organisations. He is always excited to assist any organisation that is keen to improve their reliability performance in operations and maintenance into world class reliable operating company.
With the opportunities that opens up, he had been very fortunate to work across a varied heavy process industries internationally such as manufacturing, steel mill, mining, oil & gas up, mid & down streams, and power stations. He graduated his BEng in Mechatronics from University of Queensland, MEng from Queensland University of Technology, and is currently pursuing his MMaintRelEng from Federation University (Merger of Monash & Ballarat University). Hao is also trained in extensive suite of optimisation tools such as Root Cause and Failure Analysis (RCFA), Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM), Failure Modes & Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Reliability, Availability, & Maintainability (RAM) study, Operational Readiness, Operational Excellence and etc.
He had worked through various capacities in the realm of Electrical Engineering such as Instrumentation/Control System Engineer and Project Engineer. He was involved in major plant mid-life overhaul; designing unmanned operations logic; facilitating Root Cause Analysis (RCA) on major plant equipment failure worth quarter million dollars of losses a year; and seconded to world largest coal-solar integration project (Kogan Creek Solar Boost).
He gained his broad experience in Reliability and Asset Management realm working along Leith Hitchcock** with a major power generator in Queensland optimizing their maintenance strategies and practices. He also worked as an Asset Management Consultant in the mining industry modelling fixed and mobile plant. After which he joined Petronas Downstream (Chemical Group) seconded to Methanol Plant as a Reliability & Integrity Executive to assist in setting up and improving their Reliability and Integrity Management System. He then went on to lead various teams in reliability & asset management program.
Employers have found value in my technical strengths to improve, optimise and develop strategies for better equipment and plant reliability, and reducing the impact of equipment failure. I have demonstrated bottom line savings and production improvements across varied plant in manufacturing, power plants, mining, petrochemical refining, and oil & gas offshore operations.
Employers have seen benefits from my global leadership skills, and abilities to analyse technical data for better forecasting and preventing failures, lost production, and plant or equipment damage. I have developed skills and expectations at the highest standards, worked within leading management teams, and improved reliability and asset management performance in world-leading organisations.
Asset Management begins with the right people. Reliability doesn't cost, it pays.
I have unrestricted working rights in Malaysia & Australia.
In the past, I had also provided business consulting services in the health & fitness, electro-mechanical manufacturing, metal fabrication sector in Malaysia and Offshore Oil & Gas sector in Timor. I am open to opportunities, and would be delighted to talk over coffee.
I am a current Member of Institute of Engineers Australia (MIEAust), Certified Asset Management Assessor (CAMA), & Certified Practitioner in Asset Management (CPAM).
Pursuing Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP), & Registered Professional Engineer (RPEng) + Registered Professional Engineer Queensland (RPEQ).
**Leith Hitchcock is an expert in RCA and Failure Analysis and has completed over $35M capital value of dispute resolution investigations. Leith represents Australia and ISO on several standards committees namely ISO PC251 Asset Management (ISO Liaison), ISO TC108 SC5 Condition Monitoring of Machines (Aus. Chief Delegate), and Stds Australia ME-087 Machine Condition Monitoring (Chairman).
