Reliability Engineering Training

Learning Outcomes

• Apply reliability engineering principles to analyze system failures and identify root causes.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of maintenance strategies using reliability metrics and data analysis.
• Design and implement a reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) program for critical assets.
• Analyze failure modes and effects (FMEA) to prioritize risk mitigation actions.
• Demonstrate the use of reliability tools such as Weibull analysis and statistical process control.
• Implement reliability improvement plans that reduce downtime and optimize asset life cycle costs.

Target Audience

This course is ideal for engineers, maintenance managers, reliability engineers, and technical professionals involved in asset management, maintenance planning, and operational excellence in industries such as manufacturing, mining, energy, and logistics.

Prerequisites

None — open enrollment

Course Outline

Practicals

Overview

Practical sessions are integrated throughout the course to allow learners to apply reliability tools to real-world scenarios. Learners will work in groups to analyse failure data, build reliability models, conduct FMEA, and perform RCM analysis on case study equipment.

Practical Activities

• Practical 1: Failure Data Analysis with Weibull — Learners receive failure data for a fleet of pumps and use Weibull analysis software (or manual plotting) to estimate parameters and predict reliability. (4h)
• Practical 2: System Reliability Modelling — Learners construct reliability block diagrams for a process system and calculate overall reliability for different configurations. (4h)
• Practical 3: FMEA and RCM Decision Logic — Using a case study of a conveyor system, learners perform a FMEA and then apply RCM decision logic to select maintenance tasks. (4h)
• Practical 4: Root Cause Analysis and Improvement Plan — Learners conduct a root cause analysis on a chronic failure scenario and develop a reliability improvement plan using PDCA. (4h)

Summatives

Each delegate is assessed continuously throughout the course via daily exercises, scored practical assignments, and a final summative test at the end.

Practical Assignments — 30%

Practical assignments are observed and scored against a rubric during the practical sessions. Each delegate's practical mark is averaged into a single 100% score and contributes 30% to the final total.

Daily Exercises — 20%

Every training day ends with a multiple-choice exercise scored out of 100%. The scores from each daily exercise are averaged across the duration of the course to produce a Daily Average mark, which contributes 20% to the final total.

Final Test — 50%

On the last day a final summative test is written. It is a multiple-choice paper with multiple-answer questions: each question may have more than one correct option, and a single wrong selection on a question marks the entire question wrong — no partial credit. The final test is scored out of 100% and contributes 50% to the overall mark.

Final Total

Component	Out of	Weight
Practical Assignments (rubric-scored)	100%	30%
Daily Average (multiple choice)	100%	20%
Final Test (multi-answer multiple choice)	100%	50%
Final Total	—	100%

All marks are recorded on the AATICD LMS and visible to each learner under their account.

Certificate

How it works

• Certificates are auto-generated on the AATICD LMS as soon as the marks pass the 50% threshold.
• Each certificate is a branded PDF with the delegate's name, the course title, the unit standard ID, NQF level, credits, and the date of issue.
• You can download or print your certificate from your LMS dashboard at any time after issue — there's no reissue fee and no expiry date.
• If you scored under 50% you can sit the final test again at the next scheduled session at no extra cost.

Where to find it

Sign in to the LMS, open your dashboard, and your certificates appear under My Certificates. Each entry has a View / Download button and a print option.

Training Discounts

Group discounts apply automatically — the more delegates you enrol, the greater the saving. Discounts are calculated at 3% per 5 delegates, scaling up to 40% off for 100+ delegates.

Delegates	Discount
5	3% off
10	6% off
15	9% off
20	12% off
25	15% off
30	18% off
50	30% off
75	35% off
100	40% off

3% discount per 5 delegates, up to 40% off for 100+ delegates. Contact us for a custom group quote.