Asset maintenance and reliability

Understand how to use and implement a fourth generation asset maintenance and reliability system, and adapt to the changing needs of your organisations assets.

As systems and equipment become more complex, asset maintenance strategies have become even more important to assess and predict reliability.

This course equips you with the skills and knowledge to create strategies for maintenance and reliability across the lifecycle of your assets and facilities. You’ll learn how to create a strategy using a fourth-generation asset maintenance and reliability system that improves performance and reduces costs. And adapt to the changing needs of your assets without compromising safety, environmental and business goals.

Developed by an experienced trainer and expert in asset management, this course is based on practices outlined in the international standard (ISO 55000). Through interactive online content and video material featuring real-world examples, you’ll develop the skills to:

• analyse and predict future reliability performance
• develop and apply appropriate maintenance strategies
• discuss and resolve maintenance and reliability issues

By the end of the course you’ll understand:

• the fundamental connection between maintenance and reliability
• root cause analysis, its different methodologies and when best to use them
• reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), and failure modes effects and criticality analysis (FMECA) principles, and how to use them
• the concept of asset lifecycle planning and how maintenance reliability management plays a significant role

Learning outcomes

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Explain asset maintenance and reliability management and how they may benefit organisations
• Identify equipment failures and failure characteristics
• Develop maintenance strategies using basic reliability engineering principles to improve reliability and availability
• Recognise how and when to use the Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) and Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) analysis processes

Intended audience

This course is relevant to engineers across all career stages involved in asset maintenance and reliability tasks, particularly in the oil & gas, petrochemical, utilities, transport, infrastructure, or mining industries.

Roles include:

• Asset management engineers and consultants
• Design engineers
• Facility engineers
• HS&E engineers
• Maintenance engineers
• Operations professionals
• Supervisors and managers

Course format

This course is delivered through EEA Online, our digital learning platform.

You'll learn using a mix of practical case studies, quizzes and reading, audio and video materials. You'll also apply your knowledge in practice with a variety of assessment tasks and learning checks.

It will take approximately eight hours to complete. As it is self-paced, you can start anytime and save your progress as you finish each module.

Once you register for the course, you have 90 days to complete it.

Presenter information

Alastair Krebs has more than 35 years’ experience in asset management, maintenance, integrity, and risk and reliability management. He has worked at a senior level, both onshore and offshore, for major contractors and clients across many industries. He has worked in hydrocarbon exploration, supply and processing industries, electrical power generation, mining resources, public utilities and infrastructure.

He is experienced in developing and implementing asset maintenance and integrity management systems and safety case documents for offshore oil and gas installations. He also has extensive experience in the specification and implementation of computerised maintenance management systems.

Alastair is also an adjunct lecturer in Curtin University’s Master of Petroleum Engineering and Master of Subsea Engineering programs, where he teaches asset management, risk and reliability, and operational HSE management systems.

Alastair often presents at keynote technical seminars worldwide on topics such as reliability-centered maintenance, reliability and benchmarking, and the adaptive process for maintenance and integrity.