Flagship in-person workshop
A 5-day workshop delivered at site by Erik Hupjé personally. Your team goes through the full Road to Reliability Framework to create a roadmap they own when Erik leaves. Includes 6 months of implementation support.
Outcomes
The Maintenance & Reliability Best Practices Workshop applies the full Road to Reliability™ Framework to your operating site. Over 5 days on-site, Erik takes your maintenance and reliability leaders through the practices that high-performing sites use to deliver durable improvement.
These are the high-impact best practices the workshop is built around:
Through better planning & scheduling and waste elimination during execution.
Identify low-value preventive maintenance tasks, optimise the PM program, reduce workload, cut cost, and increase uptime.
Tackle the 80% of failures that are repeat issues, including both bad actors and minor defects.
Use a practical leadership and culture model to initiate change, then keep the technical improvements alive once the initial push is over.
Engaging discussions, case studies, and exercises drawn from real scenarios across client sites worldwide. This is not an academic course or exam prep. Your team analyses your plant’s performance, finds the gaps, and builds the roadmap on Day 5.
Curriculum
The workshop runs for 5 days at your site, with up to 25 participants (optimum 12–16 for engagement). We cover roughly one topic per day, with flex for discussion and applied exercises on your equipment and your data.
Sets the scene. Industry promotes complex frameworks; the "Best of the Best" achieve world-class performance (98%+ uptime) by focusing relentlessly on a few fundamentals.
Most maintenance organisations lose time waiting for permits, isolations, parts, tools, and other trades. Effective Planning & Scheduling cuts this waste, but only when the full end-to-end process works in practice.
Many PM programs are unoptimised. Teams do too much maintenance, often too much intrusive maintenance, and reliability gets worse rather than better.
80% of failures that occur in industrial plants have occurred before. Most organisations focus on getting better at fixing repeat failures instead of eliminating them.
Technical improvements only deliver lasting results when supported by the right leadership behaviours and a reliability-focused culture. This topic gives leaders practical tools they can use without large budgets or waiting for senior leadership.
Most courses end on Day 5. This one keeps helping for six more months.
We can adjust the scope of the core topics or add specialised content based on your priorities. Two add-ons we run on request:
Pricing
$25,000 + travel costs
For up to 25 participants. That covers the 5 days on site, all templates and toolkits, and the six monthly Q&A sessions afterwards.
Included
Delivered personally by
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.
Choosing a workshop
We run two in-person workshops. This one covers the full Road to Reliability™ Framework across all four elements; the other goes deep on planning & scheduling alone. Which one fits depends on whether you are setting a site-wide direction or fixing how work gets planned day to day.
The whole framework in five days. For leadership and reliability teams building a site-wide roadmap across all four elements.
Planning & scheduling, end to end. For the planners, schedulers, supervisors, and managers who run work management daily.
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Five deliveries of this workshop for the same client over two years. They kept coming back. Feedback below is from the two most recent sessions (45 participants) and is representative of all five.
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43 of 45 participants (96%) answered 4–5.
“It gave me a clear and structured approach to improving reliability.”
“All the info is easy to correlate with our current situation in the company, so it makes it easy to think about further improvement.”
“Everything was superb. We are glad to have you as instructor.”
FAQs
Up to 25 participants. We find the workshop runs best with 12 to 16: small enough that every participant gets airtime in discussions and exercises, large enough to bring a real cross-section of disciplines (planners, schedulers, supervisors, reliability engineers, operations) into the room.
Yes. The 5-topic structure is fixed, but the examples, exercises, and the Day 5 roadmap are built around your equipment, your KPIs, and the issues you are actually trying to solve. We agree the customisation scope during the call.
Six live monthly Q&A sessions with Erik directly after the workshop. The sessions are built around helping your team execute the roadmap and resolve the implementation challenges that surface in the first 6 months. Most workshops end on Day 5. This one keeps helping for 6 more months.
Oil & gas, mining, chemicals, large-scale manufacturing, and major logistics operations (ports, airports). The content is industry-agnostic at the framework level but the examples and exercises lean heavily on asset-intensive, safety-critical environments.
Possibly. We have run condensed versions of MRBP with smaller leadership teams. We make those calls case-by-case during the call. Usually we end up recommending one of the online courses (PS100/PM100) for the wider team plus a short on-site leadership intensive.
Erik delivers the workshop in English. If you need delivery in another language, raise it on the call and we will discuss what is feasible.
The workshop is $25,000 plus travel costs, for up to 25 participants. That covers the 5 days on site, all templates and toolkits, and the six monthly Q&A sessions afterwards.
MRBP covers the same content as PS100, PM100, DE100, and LC100, applied directly to your site. Teams who attend MRBP often enrol the wider workforce in the corresponding online courses afterwards. The online courses reinforce what the leadership team learned in person and extend the same vocabulary across the site.
Yes. The Reliability Sprints (our coaching engagements for Planning & Scheduling, PM optimisation, and Defect Elimination) pair naturally with MRBP. The workshop builds the framework and the roadmap; the sprints help you execute against specific elements of the roadmap. Raise it on the call.
P.S. MRBP is the most direct way to bring the Road to Reliability™ framework into your site. Erik delivers it personally, your leadership team builds the roadmap with him in the room, and the 6 months of follow-up keep the support going through the hardest part: early implementation. Book a call when you are ready to see whether it fits.
