Life Cycle Institute Courses

Asset Maintenance Plans
Configuration Management Certification
Establishing Reliability Excellence for Lean Implementation
Leading Organizational Change
Leading People
Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
Materials Management Best Practices
Predictive Maintenance Technologies
Predictive Maintenance Technologies at UW-Madison
Reliability Engineering Application
Reliability Engineering Excellence
Reliability Excellence for Managers
Root Cause Analysis
Speed of Trust® Simulation
Train the Trainer

Asset Maintenance Plans

The Asset Maintenance Plans course introduces the value of the asset maintenance plan and its critical role in the asset management strategy. Participants work together to develop an asset maintenance plan. The three-day course concludes by discussing how to marshal the people, processes, data and technologies that make an effective asset maintenance plan.
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Configuration Management Certification

The CMPIC certification program, made up of four courses, has been developed to provide a solid foundation in Configuration Management (CM) to all those who need a thorough understanding of configuration management principles, processes, tools, and workflows; and how to achieve integration to provide an effective and efficient enterprise solution.
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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 Organizational Change

Are you willing to change your leadership style to get the results you want? Do you wonder why it’s difficult to get the people in your organization to change? Learn how to identify the forces that cause people to do what they do and how to successfully change structure, systems, and leadership styles to reinforce new behaviors. You’ll explore the 3 critical areas of rational, political, and emotional thought and discover how to effectively use communication to get people to embrace change while avoiding the “flavor of the month” syndrome. Leading Organizational Change will prepare you to implement change in pilot areas while communicating successes.
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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 Engineering Application

This is a dynamic 5-day, high-impact, interactive workshop where participants will experience the fundamental concepts of Reliability Excellence in order to drive performance improvement efforts within your organization.The class is a learning process that begins with a clear understanding of the learning objectives, behavior change expectations and desired performance improvement results. Then you will learn the tools and processes required to develop, implement and sustain word-class maintenance and reliability programs.
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Reliability Engineering Excellence

The Reliability Engineer (RE) is the business advisor to facility maintenance and production. This strategic position is responsible for evaluating and predicting performance to achieve the greatest asset utilization at the lowest total cost of ownership. The RE sees all aspects of proper plant function, puts equipment first, and makes decisions based on how machines function and their impact on production. Just as a business advisor must balance policy and diplomacy, the RE must be dedicated to preserving asset reliability and managing risk.
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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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Speed of Trust® Simulation

The Speed of Trust® teaches participants pragmatic, practical, and actionable skills the learner can implement immediately regardless of his or her role in the organization. This highly interactive Business Simulation engages leaders at all levels in the real work of identifying and closing the trust gaps that exist in many organizations.
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Train the Trainer

Train-the-Trainer (TTT) is an intensive, customizable 2½ day class that teaches the competencies required to accelerate understanding, raise retention and achieve buy-in whether you are training, coaching, presenting or leading meetings. During this course, you will acquire tools and techniques that increase learner comprehension, participation and retention.
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