Reliability Engineering Training

Learning Outcomes

• Apply reliability engineering principles to identify and analyze failure modes in industrial systems.
• Implement reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) strategies to improve asset availability and performance.
• Analyze maintenance data using statistical tools to predict equipment failures and optimize maintenance schedules.
• Evaluate the lifecycle cost of assets and recommend cost-effective reliability improvements.
• Design a reliability improvement plan incorporating root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Demonstrate the use of key reliability metrics such as MTBF, MTTR, and OEE to monitor and enhance system reliability.

Target Audience

Maintenance managers, reliability engineers, plant supervisors, and technical professionals involved in asset management and maintenance planning within manufacturing, mining, or process industries.

Prerequisites

A basic understanding of maintenance operations and engineering principles is recommended.

Course Outline

Practicals

Overview

Practical sessions reinforce theoretical concepts through hands-on data analysis, FMECA workshops, RCM exercises, and root cause analysis. Learners use real-world datasets and software tools to build competence in reliability engineering techniques.

Practical Activities

• Weibull Analysis and Reliability Data Modelling — Learners use a provided dataset of component failure times to perform Weibull analysis using software (e.g., Minitab or Excel), estimate parameters, and interpret plots. (4h)
• FMECA Workshop on a Pump System — In teams, learners complete a FMECA on a centrifugal pump system, identifying failure modes, effects, causes, and assigning criticality ratings. (4h)
• RCM Decision Analysis on a Conveyor System — Learners apply the RCM decision logic to a conveyor system, selecting appropriate maintenance tasks for each failure mode and justifying choices. (4h)
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Simulation — Learners analyse a real-world failure scenario using fishbone diagram and 5 Whys techniques, then present findings and corrective actions. (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.