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The plant stops surprising you
Uptime goes up, repeat failures stop coming back, the plant floor gets more productive, and safer. Eliminate the waste, keep what adds value.
For maintenance leaders in asset-intensive plants
Escape the vicious cycle of reactive maintenance.
Practical, expert-led training and coaching that builds the skills your team needs to stop firefighting and run a safe, reliable, profitable plant
Trusted by maintenance teams across 80+ countries
The reality on the plant floor
Tired of all the firefighting? You’re not alone.
Most maintenance teams face:
- Costly breakdowns that erode profit and uptime
- Repeat failures that drain morale and resources
- Tight budgets that frame maintenance as a cost centre
- Ineffective and inefficient processes that don't help
The result? A maintenance team that feels like second-class citizens, and an organisation that's stuck in a reactive blame culture. But it doesn't have to be this way...
The Reliability Academy way
Reliability is simple when you focus on the basics.
Consultants and software vendors overcomplicate reliability. They sell theories, software, and big expensive programs that never quite move the needle on the plant floor.
We don't. Our four-part framework, built on decades of plant-floor experience and the best research in the industry, turns maintenance from a cost centre into a value driver. Your team implements it. Your team owns it. No new technology. No expensive software. No army of consultants.
The framework itself is free: download it and read it in an afternoon. The training is how your team learns to implement it.
The transition
From firefighting to sustained reliability
Your team learns and implements. We simply guide and coach.
Where you are today
Stuck in firefighting
- Teams stuck in firefighting and reactive maintenance
- Tight budgets, frequent shutdowns, low productivity
- Hundreds of repeat failures and wasted effort on low-value tasks
- No shared strategy or standards. Stressed teams.
The road · your team walks it
- 1Planning & Scheduling
- 2Preventive Maintenance
- 3Defect
Elimination - 4Leadership
& Culture
Built on decades of plant-floor experience
and the best research in the industry.
Where you want to be
Sustained reliability
- A simple, proactive approach built on the basics
- Productivity up ~35% without new hires. Spend down 20%+.
- Defects fixed forever, instead of forever-fixed
- Teams aligned on shared skills, standards, and a proactive culture.
What changes
Three things your team takes home.
One four-part framework. Three outcomes that show up
in your numbers, often sooner than you'd think.
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It works with what you have
Work with the team and the budget you've already got. No new hires, no new software. Realistic pricing and a practical approach that allows you to start small.
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Your team owns it for good
Your people build the skills and the shared language to run reliability themselves. When the training ends, the habits stay. No long-term dependence on us or on outside consultants.
35%
maintenance productivity increase, without new hires
20%
sustainable reduction in maintenance spend
2,500+
professionals trained, across 80+ countries
Working with us
Two ways to train your team
Most teams start with online training and add live coaching as they grow. Both are built to roll out across a team — one site or many.
Most teams start here
Online training
Practical, expert-led courses your team takes at its own pace — anywhere, in five languages. Fits a standard training budget, so you can roll it out without waiting on procurement.
- Self-paced, on any device
- Built for asset-intensive plants
- Lifetime access, updated as we improve the content
From $1,295 per learner
Explore trainingWhen you're ready
Live programs
When you want hands-on help making it stick, our live workshops and coaching sprints take your team from knowing what to do to actually doing it on the plant floor.
- In-person workshops or live coaching sprints
- Direct access to Erik and his team
- Built around your site's real problems
Scoped to your requirements
See live programsRolling out across a team or multiple sites?
Volume pricing brings the per-learner cost down, and our Turnover Guarantee protects the investment — if a trained team member leaves within two years of starting, we train their replacement free.
An honest comparison
Why go with Reliability Academy instead of others?
There's plenty of maintenance training out there: certification prep, university short courses, two-day workshops run by consulting firms. Here's where we're different:
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Taught by a practitioner, not a lifelong consultant. Erik spent 25+ years running maintenance and reliability for large multi-nationals, working across the globe. Every course is built from what worked on real sites, not from a textbook.
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Built around implementation. Each course covers the what, the why, but also shows how to apply it at your site, including the business case to get it funded. One learner called it "the recipe", that's the point so your team not just learns, but actually implements.
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Train once, keep it forever. Lifetime access, so your team can work at their pace, whenever and wherever it suits them. In their own language. With content updated as we improve it.
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2-Year Turnover Guarantee. Investing in people for them to then leave is a concern for most managers. Here's how we help: if someone enrolled in our training leaves within 2 years of starting, we train their replacement free of charge.
Working proof from the plant floor.
TIP Trailer Services
Trailer rental · 140 workshops
16%
direct
productivity
gain
TIP Trailer Services trained 100 employees from Workshop Managers to Technicians in Maintenance Planning & Scheduling and saw direct workshop productivity increase by 16%, sickness ratio reduced by 33%, and profit increased by 7-figures.
“Today we do exactly what is proposed in the course: a weekly schedule, backlog review and daily planning. Work orders are identified, prioritised, planned.”
Case study 1 / 11: TIP Trailer Services case study
4.5
/5feedback rating
from 1,015 verified learners
Overall rating
Distribution of every rating given, across all courses.
4.5
1,015 ratings
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-55%
4★
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-36%
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-7%
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930 of 1,015 ratings
98%
would recommend
to a peer in the industry
Recommendation responses
98% is yes responses among learners who answered.
Yes
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★★★★★
“This course is really informative, with great materials, and Erik is hugely knowledgeable and a real industry expert.”
MR
Mike Rooney
Maintenance & Reliability Manager · United Utilities · United Kingdom
★★★★★
“I came away from this course with a structured approach to planning and scheduling, and real clarity on everyone's roles and responsibilities - especially between the planner and the supervisor.”
FM
Fikile Mahlangu
Reliability Manager · Enstra (Kimberly-Clark) · South Africa
★★★★★
“This course is well made, packed with material and genuinely engaging. The content is relevant and fully applicable - it even gives you the recipe for how to implement it. I've never seen anything like this before.”
FZ
Francisco Zapata
Maintenance Manager · ERCO Worldwide · Chile
★★★★★
“I've already recommended this course - we've enrolled four of our own people, including a senior supervisor and two superintendents, and I've passed it on to a mine I used to work at.”
MB
Michael Buckley
Mill Senior Planner · Equinox Gold · Canada
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