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.

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.

Industry Leading Training & Certifications

For two decades, the Life Cycle Institute has equipped industrial professionals with knowledge and skills to keep equipment reliable and operations running smoothly.

Instructor-Led Training

eLearning Courses

Private Classes

Certifications

Class Schedule

Instructor-Led Training

Reliability Excellence Fundamentals (RxF)

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

Maintenance Management Skills

SMRP Body of Knowledge Guided Study

Reliability & Asset Management Leader (RxM)

Reliability Engineering Excellence

Planning for Shutdowns, Turnarounds & Outages

Root Cause Analysis

Risk-Based Asset Management

Predictive Maintenance Strategy

Materials Management

Managing Planning and Scheduling

Self-Paced eLearning

Industrial Digital Transformation Fundamentals (eDTF)

Predictive Maintenance Strategies (ePdMS)

Reliability Engineering Excellence (eREE)

Root Cause Analysis (eRCA)

Reliability Centered Maintenance (eRCM)

MRO Storeroom Management (eMRO)

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling (eMPS)

Certification Programs

Additional Offerings

Public Class Schedule

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Staffing Solutions

Staffing Solutions:

LCEsmartr Talent offers specialized staffing solutions tailored for asset-intensive operations. Whether you’re facing staffing gaps in maintenance and reliability or seeking expert support for specific projects, our team of experienced specialists is here to help. We provide flexible, full- or part-time staffing options to augment your workforce with roles such as Maintenance Managers, Reliability Engineers, and more.

Key Services:

Staff Augmentation: Quickly fill critical maintenance and reliability positions with qualified experts.
Outsourced Contract Support: Manage leadership roles and specialized positions to support your operational needs.

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Consulting and Services

Consulting and Services:

At Life Cycle Engineering, we specialize in commercial consulting and services aimed at optimizing operational performance in asset-intensive industries. Through proven methodologies like Maintenance Excellence® and Reliability Excellence®, we help organizations manage risk, enhance productivity, and ensure reliability. Our services include strategic planning, operational assessments, and tailored training to empower teams and achieve sustainable operational improvements.

Key Services:

Asset Productivity Consulting: Optimizing operational assets to reduce costs and improve reliability.
Strategic Planning and Compliance: Aligning operations with strategic goals and regulatory requirements.
Operational Excellence: Implementing Lean practices, reliability engineering, and ISO 55000 compliance.
Change Management and Training: Supporting transformation initiatives with essential change management and educational programs.

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LCEsmartr Playbook

Smartr Packages:

The LCEsmartr Playbook is a cloud-based toolkit designed to foster smart operations through reliability and operational excellence. It offers customizable solutions for digital transformation, integrating tools for change management, eLearning, and industry best practices in asset management. This comprehensive resource enables organizations to cultivate a smart culture and accelerate their journey to operational excellence.

Key Features:

Customizable Toolkit: Cloud-based platform with tools and resources for reliability excellence and asset management.
Change Management Essentials: Implementation guide and project management tools to facilitate organizational transformation.
Training and Assessments: Online training modules and self-assessment tools to benchmark operational practices.

Global Accessibility: Available in multiple languages to support global teams.

Testimonials

Excellent course: covered a significant amount of information and applied the information using activities, sample projects, and scenarios which helped the class remain dynamic and well-paced.

Great class! Really gave me what I needed for my role as a Reliability Engineer and my CMRP exam that is upcoming.

I would highly recommend LCE and the Life Cycle Institute to any private or public organization looking for way to improve overall productivity within their corporate infrastructure.

The course was an excellent foundation for understanding how to build a world class maintenance/reliability program for our company. I am glad that I invested the time - I feel that I have a better vision of what we need to get accomplished.

I gained a tremendous amount of knowledge in a short period of time. I have been inspired to expand our reliability program.

The Life Cycle Institute facility was excellent for training. The staff was a pleasure to work with and the facilitator was one of the best instructors I have studied under. He provided excellent examples, hands-on material and real life feedback. My experience was over the top.

Industry Leading Training & Certifications

Instructor-Led Training

Self-Paced eLearning

Certification Programs

Additional Offerings

Public Class Schedule

Staffing Solutions

Consulting and Services

LCEsmartr Playbook

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