Life Cycle Institute Courses

Asset Maintenance Plans
Establishing Reliability Excellence for Lean Implementation
Leading People
Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
Materials Management Best Practices
Predictive Maintenance Technologies
Predictive Maintenance Technologies at UW-Madison
Reliability Excellence for Managers
Root Cause Analysis

Asset Maintenance Plans

When building an asset management strategy, the maintenance component is critical. How do you plan ahead during the first phases of an asset’s lifecycle? This course will step you through the fundamental building blocks to create a strategy for asset maintenance from cradle to grave. You will have the opportunity to receive hands-on instruction while preparing an asset maintenance plan that can ultimately help you achieve the greatest asset utilization at the lowest total cost of ownership.
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Establishing Reliability Excellence for Lean Implementation

The University of Tennessee and Life Cycle Engineering have partnered to design a certificate program taught by practitioners focused on establishing foundational reliability in support of Lean Manufacturing. This program is designed for plant managers, maintenance managers, business unit managers, directors of operations, and vice-presidents of operations who are interested in transforming their business through the principles of Lean Manufacturing by first optimizing manufacturing assets and processes.
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Leading People

Are you expected to lead people to produce results? Avoid the mistakes that can stand in the way of success by learning and practicing tools and techniques that will make you a more effective leader. In this course you’ll learn how to build trust, create results through performance feedback, resolve conflict, plan effective meetings, create communication strategies and deliver successful presentations. You’ll return to the job with renewed confidence in your leadership abilities.
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Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

Is your company eager to reap the benefits of efficiently planned maintenance – benefits like lower material costs, decreased overtime and decreased repair costs? You’ll return from this five-day class with a thorough understanding of what you can do to reap those benefits. You’ll discover how to coordinate the roles and responsibilities of maintenance supervisors and planners and how to sustain management’s commitment and support. You’ll master scheduling and coordinating work effectively and learn the best ways to handle common maintenance problems, delays and inefficiencies.
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Materials Management Best Practices

You’ll get a much better return on your inventory investment when you apply the sound storeroom operations principles that you will learn in this five-day class. Life Cycle Engineering’s materials management gurus will help you create a materials management master plan that includes key elements like kitting best practices, KPIs for storerooms and purchasing, ABC analysis and effective work control processes.
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Predictive Maintenance Technologies

It’s important for you and your organization to understand what technologies are being applied to your asset base and why. Most companies schedule maintenance based upon statistical trends or breakdowns/failures. But this five-day course will show you how to reduce costs and improve your products by using factual data that reflect actual operating condition of equipment and need for maintenance. Implementing a predictive (PdM) program to increase your maintenance operation’s effectiveness is the key to achieving those goals.
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Predictive Maintenance Technologies at UW-Madison

If you’re a manager engaged in process improvement initiatives, then Reliability Excellence for Managers is designed for you. You’ll discover the tools necessary to develop, implement and sustain world-class maintenance and reliability programs. Delivered in four three-day sessions, this series engages participants with activities that reinforce the skills in each preceding workshop. Sharing experiences with your fellow class participants, you’ll learn how to build the foundation of reliability to set the stage for process improvement initiatives and reduce maintenance costs with proven and sustainable reliability tools.
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Reliability Excellence for Managers

Root Cause Analysis

If you’re responsible for problem-solving and improving processes, this three-day class will show you how to stop recurring failures. You’ll learn and practice a method to approach daily problem-solving with proven root cause tools. Unsure which tools to use when? Our RCA experts will help you understand the advantages and disadvantages of different tools and how to use the right one at the right time.
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