Reliability Excellence Fundamentals

Begin your journey to reliability excellence.

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the reliability engineering techniques that are most commonly applied in asset-owning organisations. It is designed for those that are new to reliability engineering, as well as those that may have been practicing as reliability engineers but have not yet received formal training.

Starting out with an overview of the key areas where reliability engineering can help to make a difference to organisational performance, the course then provides more detail regarding some specific areas where reliability engineers are called on to assist – notably:

• The application of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) principles to determine and optimise preventive maintenance routines, and
• The application of Root Cause Analysis to uncover the reasons for recurring reliability issues, and determine the most appropriate long-term solutions to these problems.

The course is filled with practical examples and exercises that show how these principles are actually applied in practice, and give participants practice in applying these principles in a safe, supportive environment. The course will be led by one of our Senior Consultants who have demonstrated high levels of skill and experience in reliability engineering and delivering adult training.

Key outcomes

By the end of this course, you will (at a minimum) be able to:

• Describe the contributions of reliability and maintainability to business success
• Define reliability and maintainability
• Identify appropriate techniques to apply to achieve reliability improvement across the asset life cycle
• Describe the benefits that can be gained through an effective PM program.
• Describe the principles of both Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Preventive Maintenance Optimisation (PMO).
• Identify the steps involved in developing an equipment strategy.
• Contribute to each step, particularly:
  • Applying RCM or PMO techniques as appropriate to the equipment,
  • Identifying equipment functions and failure modes,
  • Selecting recommended maintenance tasks, and
  • Identifying additional improvement tasks.
• Describe why most traditional problem solving approaches do not work effectively.
• Demonstrate a paradigm shift in their thinking about problem solving and failure analysis.
• Demonstrate the skills to solve problems effectively using Root Cause Analysis principles.