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The Life Cycle Institute is an educational partner committed to delivering education that changes behavior, improves performance, and transforms culture.
Life Cycle Institute offerings include university-backed credentials, self-paced online courses with personalized action plans, in-person and virtual instructor-led programs, private group classes, and coaching or mentorship programs.

Instructor-Led Training
Reliability & Maintenance Program Management
Programs with proven methodologies – like Reliability Excellence – and best practices to transform operations and deliver asset performance improvements, stronger financial outcomes, and an engaged workforce.
Reliability Engineering
Multi-day courses designed to help you develop RCM-based asset maintenance strategies, manage RCA and loss elimination programs, and strategically use technology to avoid failures and extend asset life.
Work Management
Programs that transform work management best practices into training that helps you effectively plan and schedule maintenance resources, increase equipment reliability, and improve maintenance costs.
Storeroom, Spare Parts & Materials
Multi-day courses designed to help you manage your storeroom, inventory, and critical spares to support operations, prevent downtime, and improve cost efficiency.
Asset Management/ISO 55000 focus
Programs that focus on how the ISO 55000 standards and the principals of asset management help organizations manage risk, maximize asset value, and achieve optimal life cycle performance.

eLearning
Reliability Engineering
Programs to build and sustain a reliability-centered maintenance program that will achieve your goals in risk management, loss elimination, maintenance strategies and asset care.
Work Management
Programs that cover the work management process, from identification through planning, scheduling and closeout. All programs include management tools for daily operations and shutdowns (STO).
Storeroom, Spare Parts & Materials
Programs to help you manage your storeroom, inventory, and critical spares in a way that meets the needs of operations, reduces the risk of downtime, and reduces carrying costs.
Digital Readiness Best Practices
Programs that prepare leaders to build a foundation for effective digital transformation, thrive in an increasingly digital environment, and drive smart operations.

University-Backed Certifications
Reliability & Asset Management Leader Certification
A new standard of leadership! Candidates prove their ability to lead reliability programs and operational excellence. Inspired by our pioneering Reliability Excellence for Managers course.
Reliability Engineering Certification
Achieve the premier certification in reliability engineering by developing the expertise to prioritize critical assets, lead continuous improvement, and align asset life cycle management with enterprise strategy.
Maintenance Management Certification
A leading university-backed credential that will build your leadership and analytical skills to optimize maintenance performance, control costs, and drive operational excellence across your organization.
Planning & Scheduling Certification
A university-backed credential that will develop your ability to plan proactively, schedule efficiently, improve workforce productivity, and equipment reliability.

Enterprise Learning & Group Training
LCEsmartr
The LCEsmartr Playbook is a comprehensive online system that empowers you to manage your reliability program, embed asset management best practices, and train your workforce in operational excellence.
Private & Group Training
We are your educational partner committed to delivering training that changes behavior, improves performance, and transforms culture. We can bring your teams and leaders together for an engaging, on-site learning experience.
Enterprise Learning Programs
Our learning experts curate programs that speak to your unique needs, from the frontline to leadership. We can build a learning ecosystem that drives results through reliability and asset management best practices.

Solutions & Services

CMMS Training and Coaching
Our CMMS experts empower your teams to be confident users and data stewards while maximizing the value of your data through CMMS training and EAM optimization services.

Reliability & Maintenance Coaching Services
LCE’s expert coaches offer a structured, personalized approac that can strengthen your team’s reliability and maintenance capabilities, inspire new ideas, and drive lasting improvements.

Custom Training Programs
Our learning experts can plan and assess your corporate learning program, design a course to develop your teams, perform train-the-trainer services, and track program results.

Organizational Change Coaching and Services
Our change management experts align teams with operational improvement goals, ensure employee engagement and skill development to drive efficiencies and maximize the impact of improvement initiatives.

Online Body of Knowledge & Toolkit
LCEsmartr is more than an online toolkit – it’s backed by 50 years’ expertise and includes engineering work packages, a training system, and proven program resources for success.

CMMS & EAM Analytics and Optimization Services
Our experts help organizations establish strong data governance, consistent quality standards, and actionable insights that drive proactive, data-informed decisions.

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The Life Cycle Institute: Our History
LCE founded the Life Cycle Institute to share reliability and maintenance best practices with the world.
Discover our history and the academic partnerships that shape our work.
Message from our CEO
At LCE and the Life Cycle Institute, we believe every operation can be reliable and efficient, and that people are the drivers of excellence.
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We have training locations at our corporate headquarters and partner universities across the United States.
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For over 20 years, the Life Cycle Institute’s instructors, designers, and training coordinators have been dedicated to helping professionals build the skills in asset management, reliability, and maintenance optimization. Backed by university partnerships and grounded in real-world experience, our team creates transformative learning experiences that deliver lasting results.

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LCEsmartr is a customizable online toolkit designed to drive reliability and operational excellence – holistically integrating people, technology, processes, and assets.

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