Online preventive maintenance training
Achieve higher reliability and availability whilst doing less maintenance. Acquire the knowledge and tools you need to create a highly effective and efficient Preventive Maintenance Program.
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The PM100 Developing and Improving Preventive Maintenance Programs course provides you with the knowledge, tools, and techniques you need to eliminate up to 60% of your preventive maintenance tasks that add little to no value for your organisation.
Whether you work in manufacturing, mining, or oil and gas, this course teaches you the simplest and most practical approach to creating an effective and efficient Preventive Maintenance program — reducing workloads, reducing costs, and increasing reliability.
To succeed with that higher objective this training course teaches you:
You will learn the principles that underpin every effective PM program — including the role of failure modes, the P-F curve, consequence of failure, and operating context. These principles drive every design decision in a PM program that actually prevents failures.
You will learn the maintenance type taxonomy that frames every decision: Time-Based Maintenance (TBM), Failure-Finding Maintenance (FFM), Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM), Risk-Based Maintenance (RBM), Predictive Maintenance (PDM), and Run-to-Failure (RTF). You’ll learn when each is appropriate and the trade-offs involved.
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is the gold standard for PM analysis, but in its pure form it’s expensive and slow. You will learn the RCM principles that matter and the lightweight alternatives — PMO, FMEA, RBI, SIL — that deliver most of the value at a fraction of the cost.
You will learn how to audit your existing program, identify the tasks that don’t prevent failures, and systematically eliminate them. This is the heart of the course — practical frameworks and templates you can use the day you finish.
You will learn the importance of detailed, well-written work instructions — how to structure them, how much detail to include, and how to standardise style using ASD-STE 100 (Simplified Technical English) to reduce variability in task execution.
You will learn the key factors for structuring a PM program in your CMMS so that it is actually executable — and what happens when those factors are ignored. Get the structure right and your crews, planners, and schedulers all benefit.
Building or improving a PM program is a project. You will learn how to run that project — project management, change management, measuring program effectiveness and efficiency, and adopting the “Living Program” mindset of incremental continuous improvement.
And much more… from lubrication management, precision alignment, and flange management in the bonus module, to the most important PM key performance indicators (KPIs) and how to use them to drive sustained improvement.
Download our Course Brochure for the full breakdown of modules, lessons, and what you will be able to do by the end of the course.
Curriculum
To achieve these objectives, the course has been broken down into 8 modules, plus a bonus module — 9 modules in total. Each module consists of individual lessons. In total there are 48 lessons and approximately 16 hours of pre-recorded videos.
A short module, but a very important one. We’ll get you set up for success: course objectives, what exactly you’ll learn, and how we will work together. I’ll give an introduction to the online learning management system and introduce you to our support staff and where to ask for help.
Introduction to maintenance objectives and the 70+ years of evolution in maintenance thinking that have shaped modern PM. We cover the principles that underpin effective PM programs — failure modes, the P-F curve, consequence of failure, and operating context — and how RCM principles apply to real-world decisions.
A detailed discussion of every maintenance type: Time-Based Maintenance (TBM), Failure-Finding Maintenance (FFM), Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM), Risk-Based Maintenance (RBM), Predictive Maintenance (PDM), and Run-to-Failure (RTF). We discuss practical applications from the family car to the most complex industrial settings.
We unpack RCM — probably the most famous (or infamous) acronym in our profession. RCM is the gold standard for maintenance program analysis and the benchmark against which all other approaches are compared. You will understand exactly what RCM is, what it costs, and when it’s worth doing in full versus using a lighter alternative.
The heart of the course. We cover the common flaws in existing PM programs and the techniques to improve them — preventive maintenance optimisation (PMO), FMEA, and more equipment-specific risk-based methodologies like RBI or SIL. You will get frameworks and templates you can take into your workplace immediately.
Documented maintenance tasks live or die by the quality of their work instructions. We cover detail levels, structuring techniques, and standardising style using ASD-STE 100 — Simplified Technical English — to reduce variability in task execution and the human error that flows from it.
The key factors for structuring a PM program in a CMMS to ensure it is executable. We cover the consequences of poor structure — work that doesn’t get done, planners and schedulers fighting the system, and the slow death of program credibility.
Building a new program or running an improvement project is a project. We cover project management, change management, measuring program effectiveness and efficiency, and the “Living Program” mindset of incremental continuous improvement that keeps PM programs from rotting over time.
This bonus module provides insight into the reliability practices that make or break a PM program in execution: lubrication management, precision alignment, flange management, and more. Treat each as a foundation discipline that compounds the value of everything else you learn in this course.
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Meet your teacher
My passion is for continuous improvement and keeping things simple. Through the Reliability Academy, I help Maintenance & Reliability professionals around the globe – people like yourself – improve their plant’s reliability and their organisation’s bottom line.
I am a Certified Maintenance & Reliability Practitioner (CMRP), Certified Reliability Leader (CRL), Certified Asset Management Assessor (CAMA) and a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng).
But those are just credentials, it is my industry experience and practical approach to the topics I teach that our students and clients appreciate the most.
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$695/mo
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PM100 FREE COURSE VIDEO #1
In this lesson, we’re taking a bit of step back in time and look at how the view on preventive maintenance thinking developed over time. Understanding when, why, and how our insight into maintenance changed over time will help us better understand the topics we’re discussing later in the course.
PM100 FREE COURSE VIDEO #2
In this lesson, we’ll delve deep into the principles that underpin an Effective Preventive Maintenance Program. This is probably the most important lesson in this whole course. If you can really understand and apply the principles of an effective preventive maintenance program, you are going to succeed on your Road to Reliability™.
PM100 FREE COURSE VIDEO #3
In this lesson, we talk about when you should do a Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) study, both in terms of time as well in terms of what systems and equipment you should consider doing RCM on.
PM100 FREE COURSE VIDEO #4
In this Lesson, we’re going to talk about creating well-written work instructions and why they are critical to driving quality in preventive maintenance. And that’s because effective work instructions are an important tool for managing human error. But also because they reduce variability.
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A breath of fresh air
“His newly created Maintenance and Scheduling course was a breath of fresh air…The content he provides is very comprehensive and easy to understand.”
Martijn HaddersManager Global Maintenance & Asset Management at HenkelWorth every penny
“An excellent course worth every single penny. I wholeheartedly recommend it to all practitioners, beginners and mature maintenance or operations managers alike, as everyone can benefit from it.”
Andrej AndrojnaQuantum Consulting, SloveniaFAQs
The course is provided by Reliability Academy, which was an Approved Education Provider accredited by the Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals. Unfortunately, the SMRP discontinued their Approved Education provider program in 2020. The course continues to offer the same high-quality content when it was accredited by the SMRP. However, we can no longer promote the course as such. We are looking for other international accreditation options. The course can still be used for credit hours towards ongoing professional development and maintaining your CMRP status.
No, the course is based on modules, and you need to complete them including all homework tasks sequentially. So, once you have completed Module 1 you get access to Module 2, and so forth until you complete all the course modules and then sit for the final, multiple choice exam (online).
Yes, you will have homework to do. This is an intensive course with assignments that you need to complete in your workplace and submit online. Your assignments will be reviewed and you will receive personal feedback either from myself and/or by a specialised coach.
Yes, in addition to the assignments and quizzes that are included in the various modules, there is a final, online, multiple-choice exam that you need to complete and pass to receive your Certificate of Completion.
As soon as you purchase the course, you can start immediately. You have lifetime access to the course, so you can go through the content at your own pace.
You certainly do. When you have successfully completed all Course Modules, all homework assignments, all quizzes, and you have passed the final (online) exam — you will automatically receive a Certificate of Completion.
Support is provided in a few ways. First, there is an exclusive forum accessible only to course students. Secondly, there are regular ‘office hours’ where you can dial in and ask questions live, with replays stored in the student-only area. Third, we offer dedicated coaching programs called Reliability Sprints where we train and coach your team on implementing the processes we teach.
All students get lifetime access to the courses they enrol in. That means you can learn at your own pace, anytime, anywhere. 5 to 10 years in the future, you will still have access to these courses, and you can review them as many times as you want.
Absolutely, not a problem. Simply drop me an email at team@reliabilityacademy.com with your full details and the number of people you want to enrol and I can get a quotation off to you.
We’ve had thousands of students love our courses. If you’re not satisfied with what you see inside, we’ll give you your money back, no questions asked — as long as: (1) you have completed the first 3 modules; (2) you have not completed the course; (3) you request the refund within 30 days of purchase. Also, if turnover is a big issue for you, we offer a 24-month turnover guarantee. If someone we have trained leaves your company within 24 months of starting our training, we will train their replacement free of charge.
No. The course is delivered through a web-based Learning Management System. All you need is a modern web browser like Chrome, Edge, or Safari, and a reasonably reliable internet connection. You can access the course on desktop, tablet, or smartphone.
A Spanish version is in progress. We are also evaluating French, Arabic, and Italian translations based on demand. If you want this course in your local language, schedule a call with me so we can talk through the options.
Yes, we have a standard table for volume discounts which are applied when companies purchase the course for multiple students. The best option is to schedule a call with me and we can talk through all the options.
Yes, we offer a licensing option, which would give you the right to rebrand the training, modify it to suit your organisation’s practices, and then host it in your own Learning Management System. You do not obtain derivative rights or the right to re-sell the course. Schedule a call with me if you want to learn more.
P.S. A well-designed Preventive Maintenance program is the single biggest lever you have to improve plant reliability without spending more on maintenance — in many cases, while spending less. With this online course there is no reason to wait. You can learn the principles, the analysis techniques, and the implementation discipline straight from the comfort of your chair, and bring them back to your plant the next morning.
