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.
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.
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.
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.
Multi-day courses designed to help you manage your storeroom, inventory, and critical spares to support operations, prevent downtime, and improve cost efficiency.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Programs that prepare leaders to build a foundation for effective digital transformation, thrive in an increasingly digital environment, and drive smart operations.
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.
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.
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.
A university-backed credential that will develop your ability to plan proactively, schedule efficiently, improve workforce productivity, and equipment reliability.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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