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Reliability Engineering Training: Introductory Course for Beginners Learning Plan

Purpose: Learn the foundational Reliability Engineering analysis methods and techniques, use the basic analysis tools, and implement reliability improvements for operating assets.
Unit Performance
Criteria Conditions
No Element Training Task Training Content Required Standard
(Key Learning Prevailing
Outcomes)
1 Module 1 – 1. Reliability Operating 1. How business uses Reliability 1. a) Reducing business risk 1. Able to discuss content
Plant Engineering in production b) Selecting asset strategy
Reliability Business plant and
Management equipment c) Reliability improvement
Reliability
Basics 2. Causes of Plant
and Equipment 2. a) Equipment failure concepts 2. a) Infant mortality zone 2. a) Able to discuss content
Failure b) Causes of equipment failure b) Random failure zone b) Able to explain sources of
c) Wear-out zone equipment failure
d) Choice of maintenance strategies c) Plot failure density-curve
e) Microstructure stress
f) Bearing failures
g) Lubrication contamination
h) Over temperature
i) Electric motor failure
j) Introduce Failure Mode Effects Analysis
3. Reliability Theory 3. a) Reliability terms 3. a) Failure rate 3. a) Able to discuss content

of Failure Patterns b) Exponential and Weibull b) Cumulative failure probability b) Plot cumulative failure
distributions distribution
c) Reliability probability
c) Failures and Survivors censoring c) Plot reliability distribution
d) Censored data
d) Separating failure modes d) Failure mode distribution
e) Ranking data
e) Failure density function
4. Data to Business 4. a) Using reliability to build a business 4. a) Able to discuss content

4. a) Using equipment historic records
Case Justification case b) Failure data analysis
b) Mean Time Between Failure
b) Failure distributions c) Plot failure distributions
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Unit Performance
Criteria Conditions
Outcomes)
c) Timelines d) Write and explain the business
d) Develop and explain business case case
5. Condition 5. a) Maintenance Excellence journey 5. a) Stable Domain Model 5. a) Able to discuss content
Monitoring and b) Discuss condition monitoring
Maintenance b) Condition Monitoring b) Maintenance cost reduces with Condition
Monitoring data collection
Excellence c) Selecting maintenance strategies
c) Condition Monitoring techniques c) Discuss condition monitoring
programme
d) Condition Monitoring data collection
e) Condition monitoring programme
f) Selecting maintenance strategy based on
failure distributions
6. a) Risk concepts 6. a) Able to discuss content

6. Criticality and 6. a) Criticality risk ranking b) Conduct operating plant Critical
Risk b) Risk assessment
b) Risk triangle Analysis and make
c) Evaluating risk recommendations
c) Risk reduction proposals
d) Selecting from risk proposal options
d) Perform Criticality Analysis of an
operating plant e) Case study of an operating plant
Criticality Analysis

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Unit Performance
Criteria Conditions
Outcomes)
2 Module 2 – 1. FMECA and Operating 1. a) Failure Mode Effect Criticality 1. a) Failure Mode Effect Analysis 1. a) Able to discuss contents
Plant RCM production Analysis
Reliability plant and
Management equipment
Applying Tools 2. a) Reliability Centred Maintenance 2. a) Able to discuss RCM
2. Maintenance 2. a) Reliability Centred Maintenance methodology b) Conduct an FMECA analysis
Strategy Review b) Case study of RCM application
3. Cost 3. a) Introduction to Cost-Benefit Analysis 3. a) Estimating costs

Effectiveness and 3. a) Able to discuss contents
Cost-Benefit b) Criterion Function b) Cost Benefit determination b) Able to discuss NPV
c) Net Present Value (NPV) c) Net Present Value modelling c) Able to do basic economic
d) Benefits of good maintenance d) Comparing cost-benefit options spreadsheet modelling
e) Selling good maintenance
f) capital benefits of a capital reliability
capital engineer
4. a) KPI dashboard 4. a) Able to discuss contents

4. Key Performance 4. a) Hierarchy of Performance Indicators
b) Safety indicators b) Able to develop KPIs
Indicators and b) Leading and Lagging indicators
Benchmarking c) Production capacity indicators c) Able to do benchmarking
c) Benchmarking
d) Maintenance work process indicators d) Able to do OEE
e) Annual and Monthly benchmarking
f) Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
5. System Reliability 5. a) System modelling basics 5. a) Able to discuss contents

5. a) Designing for Reliability
Modelling b) Block diagrams b) Develop block diagrams
b) System modelling
c) Properties of systems c) System probability calculations

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Unit Performance
Criteria Conditions
Outcomes)
d) Event Tree analysis d) Properties of series systems c) Able to discuss Event Tree
c) Properties of parallel systems Analysis
d) Event Tree modelling
c) Probabilistic Safety Analysis d) Able to discuss Probabilistic
Safety Analysis

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Unit Performance
Criteria Conditions
Outcomes)
3 Module 3 – 1. Preparing Operating 1. a) Human and Organisational Issues 1. a) Difficulty of doing maintenance 1. a) Able to discuss contents
Plant Maintenance production b) Human Errors and Human Factors b) High Reliability Organisations b) Able to interpret human error
Reliability Procedures plant and rate table
Management equipment c) Cultural characteristics c) Human dependent processes
Implementation d) Mastering Maintenance Processes d) Human factors
e) Human error
f) Organisational structures
g) Trade skills
h) Promoting work quality and accuracy
i) Managing change
2. Life Cycle 2. a) Life Cycle Costing 2. a) Life Cycle Costing analysis 2. a) Able to discuss contents
Considerations b) Life Cycle Cost control b) Life Cycle Costing management
c) Project management basics
3. Root Cause 3. a) Root Cause Failure Analysis process 3. a) Fault Tree Analysis 3. a) Able to discuss contents
Analysis b) Perform a workplace RCFA
b) RCFA Team facilitation b) Fishbone diagram
c) Conduct a workplace RCFA c) Cause and Effect connections c) Able to facilitate RCFA meeting
d) Implement improvements d) Is - Is Not Table d) Write and present RCFA report
e) 5-Why Analysis
f) Conducting an RCFA
g) Example of an RCFA
h) The Facilitator role
i) Collecting the evidence
j) Running a RCFA meeting

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Unit Performance
Criteria Conditions
Outcomes)
k) Investigation and Analysis tools
l) Selecting the preferred solution
m) Reporting the findings
4. Implementing 4. a) Update workplace procedures 4. a) Considerations when implementing 4. a) Able to discuss contents
Improvements b) Conduct failure post-mortems improvements
c) 8-Step Reliability Improvement b) Error proofing maintenance procedures
Process c) Investigate equipment failures
d) W. Edwards Deming - quality d) Tell-tale evidence of component failure
system thinking
e) Roller bearing failure patterns
e) The difficulties of changing company
practices f) Reliability “Improvement Wheel”
g) Deming - the importance of
understanding systems and processes
h) Addressing the barriers to change
5. Do a Reliability 5. a) Apply course learning to reliability 5. a) Apply appropriate course content to 5. a) Deliver a completed reliability
Improvement improvement project conduct improvement project improvement project proposal,
Project including all evidence, analysis,
and business case justifications

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Reliability Engineering Training: Introductory Course for Beginners Learning Plan

3. Reliability Theory 3. a) Reliability terms 3. a) Failure rate 3. a) Able to discuss content

4. Data to Business 4. a) Using reliability to build a business 4. a) Able to discuss content

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Reliability Engineering Training: Introductory Course for Beginners Learning Plan

6. a) Risk concepts 6. a) Able to discuss content

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Reliability Engineering Training: Introductory Course for Beginners Learning Plan

3. Cost 3. a) Introduction to Cost-Benefit Analysis 3. a) Estimating costs

4. a) KPI dashboard 4. a) Able to discuss contents

5. System Reliability 5. a) System modelling basics 5. a) Able to discuss contents

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Reliability Engineering Training: Introductory Course for Beginners Learning Plan

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Reliability Engineering Training: Introductory Course for Beginners Learning Plan

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Reliability Engineering Training: Introductory Course for Beginners Learning Plan

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