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

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.

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.

About Us

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.

Hear more about us from our President and CEO.

The Plan. The Process. The Tools.

Built on five decades of proven success, 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.

Reliability Reinvented, Excellence Empowered

The LCEsmartr Playbook is a revolution in Reliability Excellence 50 years in the making! Life Cycle Engineering transformed our decades of asset management and reliability experience into a cloud-based, customizable toolkit and roadmap to empower organizations with the tools necessary to accelerate progress towards operational excellence. The LCEsmartr Playbook includes engineering work packages, a robust training system, program and change management tools proven for success.

What’s inside the LCEsmartr Playbook?

LCEsmartr was created to accelerate your reliability journey—from defining a vision to building capable teams and sustaining results. With an implementation guide, eLearning, standard work packages, dashboards, and expert resources, it equips your organization to manage change and achieve lasting operational excellence.

Implementation Guide

50+ templates, documents, and resources providing program management support to accelerate best practices adoption, and drive organizational change.

Operational Assessments

100+ targeted questions in areas like Reliability Engineering and Work Management to evaluate your current state and start an improvement plan.

Performance Dashboard

Visualize system usage, eLearning logins, eLearning progress, assessments, and more with our dashboards. Customizable views can include operational KPIs and predictive analytics for data-driven business decision-making.

eLearning

Dozens of online courses in maintenance and reliability best practices for work management, storeroom and reliability engineering.

Standard Work Streams

60+ standard work packages, including detailed step definitions, responsibility charts, and coaching cards to building a common language and support enterprise-wide best practice sharing.

Best Practices Coaching

LCEsmartr packages are delivered with a subject matter expert coach to guide and support your implementation, ensuring you get the most value for your investment.

Test-drive 50 years of expertise

Try LCEsmartr out for yourself! Sign up today for a free trial of the LCEsmartr Playbook. Our curated body of knowledge and toolkit were built to help you achieve reliability excellence on your own terms—at your pace, with your team, and aligned to your goals. Experience the system that turns proven practices into daily performance improvements.

All you need is a proven approach — the LCEsmartr Playbook simplifies improvement by helping you implement best practices, train your people, and sustain reliability excellence. Learn more about the platform on our official website.

Free Maintenance & Reliability Program Assessment

We’ve identified common issues facing industrial operations today, like workforce development, breakdown maintenance, and CMMS challenges. Visit LCEsmartr.com to take operational assessments and receive a tailored report with recommendations and expert guidance.

The Plan. The Process. The Tools.

Reliability Reinvented, Excellence Empowered

What’s inside the LCEsmartr Playbook?

Implementation Guide

Operational Assessments

Performance Dashboard

eLearning

Standard Work Streams

Best Practices Coaching

Test-drive 50 years of expertise

Free Maintenance & Reliability Program Assessment

Take the Next Step Toward Reliable Operations.

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