🔧 Maintenance & Reliability Foundations

A practical foundation in modern maintenance and reliability — maintenance strategies (reactive, preventive, predictive), Reliability-Centred Maintenance (RCM), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA), the CMMS and work-order workflow, spare-parts and asset management, and the key reliability KPIs (MTBF, MTTR, availability, OEE) used to drive asset performance and lower total cost. It maps to RCM / TPM / FMEA / CMMS fundamentals. The course is organized into 7 modules, ending with a final exam (pass mark 80%). It is free awareness-level training designed for anyone who needs a practical, working understanding of the topic.

What you'll learn

• Maintenance strategies & the maintenance evolution
• Reliability basics — failure, the bathtub curve & failure patterns
• Reliability-Centred Maintenance (RCM)
• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) & OEE
• FMEA — Failure Modes & Effects Analysis
• CMMS, work management & spare parts
• Reliability KPIs — MTBF, MTTR, availability & cost

Learning objectives

• Distinguish reactive, preventive, predictive and proactive maintenance and when each is appropriate
• Explain the bathtub curve, failure patterns and the difference between failure and a failure mode
• Apply the Reliability-Centred Maintenance (RCM) logic to select the right maintenance task
• Describe Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), its eight pillars and autonomous maintenance
• Build a basic FMEA and compute and interpret the Risk Priority Number (RPN)
• Run the work-order lifecycle through a CMMS and plan and schedule work effectively
• Manage spare parts, criticality and asset hierarchy to balance risk and cost
• Calculate and use the core reliability KPIs — MTBF, MTTR, availability and OEE