Reliability & Maintenance Program Management

Programs with proven methodologies – like Reliability Excellence – and best practices to transform operations and deliver asset performance improvements, stronger financial outcomes, and an engaged workforce.

Reliability Engineering

Multi-day courses designed to help you develop RCM-based asset maintenance strategies, manage RCA and loss elimination programs, and strategically use technology to avoid failures and extend asset life.

Work Management

Programs that transform work management best practices into training that helps you effectively plan and schedule maintenance resources, increase equipment reliability, and improve maintenance costs.

Storeroom, Spare Parts & Materials

Multi-day courses designed to help you manage your storeroom, inventory, and critical spares to support operations, prevent downtime, and improve cost efficiency.

Asset Management/ISO 55000 focus

Programs that focus on how the ISO 55000 standards and the principals of asset management help organizations manage risk, maximize asset value, and achieve optimal life cycle performance.

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Reliability Engineering

Programs to build and sustain a reliability-centered maintenance program that will achieve your goals in risk management, loss elimination, maintenance strategies and asset care.

Work Management

Programs that cover the work management process, from identification through planning, scheduling and closeout. All programs include management tools for daily operations and shutdowns (STO).

Storeroom, Spare Parts & Materials

Programs to help you manage your storeroom, inventory, and critical spares in a way that meets the needs of operations, reduces the risk of downtime, and reduces carrying costs.

Digital Readiness Best Practices

Programs that prepare leaders to build a foundation for effective digital transformation, thrive in an increasingly digital environment, and drive smart operations.

University-Backed Certifications

Reliability & Asset Management Leader Certification

A new standard of leadership! Candidates prove their ability to lead reliability programs and operational excellence. Inspired by our pioneering Reliability Excellence for Managers course.

Reliability Engineering Certification

Achieve the premier certification in reliability engineering by developing the expertise to prioritize critical assets, lead continuous improvement, and align asset life cycle management with enterprise strategy.

Maintenance Management Certification

A leading university-backed credential that will build your leadership and analytical skills to optimize maintenance performance, control costs, and drive operational excellence across your organization.

Planning & Scheduling Certification

A university-backed credential that will develop your ability to plan proactively, schedule efficiently, improve workforce productivity, and equipment reliability.

Enterprise Learning & Group Training

Enterprise Learning Programs

Our learning experts curate programs that speak to your unique needs, from the frontline to leadership. We can build a learning ecosystem that drives results through reliability and asset management best practices.

Private & Group Training

We are your educational partner committed to delivering training that changes behavior, improves performance, and transforms culture. We can bring your teams and leaders together for an engaging, on-site learning experience.

Solutions & Services

CMMS Training and Services

Our CMMS experts empower your teams to be confident users and data stewards while maximizing the value of your data through CMMS training and EAM optimization services.

Reliability & Maintenance Coaching Services

LCE’s expert coaches offer a structured, personalized approac that can strengthen your team’s reliability and maintenance capabilities, inspire new ideas, and drive lasting improvements.

Custom Training Programs

Our learning experts can plan and assess your corporate learning program, design a course to develop your teams, perform train-the-trainer services, and track program results.

Organizational Change Coaching and Services

Our change management experts align teams with operational improvement goals, ensure employee engagement and skill development to drive efficiencies and maximize the impact of improvement initiatives.

Online Body of Knowledge & Toolkit

LCEsmartr is more than an online toolkit – it’s backed by 50 years’ expertise and includes engineering work packages, a training system, and proven program resources for success.

About Us

The Life Cycle Institute: Our History

LCE founded the Life Cycle Institute to share reliability and maintenance best practices with the world.

Discover our history and the academic partnerships that shape our work.

Message from our CEO

At LCE and the Life Cycle Institute, we believe every operation can be reliable and efficient, and that people are the drivers of excellence.

Hear more about us from our President and CEO.

Learning is Change. Change is Learning.®

At the Institute, the heart of everything we do is a commitment to deliver a learning experience that can transform awareness into performance.

Our unique combination of instructional design and technical expertise enables us to develop programs that reach all levels of an organization.

Learn more about our proprietary 3A Learning methodolody and the values that shape our purpose.

Our Services

Our mission is to enable people to reach their full potential.

Enterprise Learning Programs

Successful enterprise learning programs look beyond training as a single event and offer a comprehensive and flexible catalog of courses that support the entire organization — from the shop floor to the top floor — before, during and after implementation.

Custom Training Programs

Life Cycle Institute programs are designed by experts in asset management, reliability, and instructional design. We are dedicated to ensuring that our education is comprehensive, flexible, impactful, and tailored to meet diverse learning styles and operational environments.

CMMS Training and Services

LCI Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) experts can deliver CMMS Fundamentals or system-specific training so that your teams are confident and effective users and data stewards.

Reliability & Maintenance Coaching

LCE’s expert coaches can strengthen your team’s reliability and maintenance capabilities, inspire new ideas, and drive lasting improvements. Our coaches and process facilitators offer a structured, personalized approach to help employees adopt new methodologies, embrace change, and achieve measurable results.

Organizational Change Coaching

Life Cycle Engineering’s change management experts align teams with operational improvement goals, ensuring employee engagement and skill development so that your improvement initiatives provide the maximum impact and production efficiencies you seek.

Client Testimonials

I would highly recommend LCE to all industrial facilities in the private and public sectors that are looking for a way to improve overall productivity within their corporate infrastructure.

City of Des Moines

"In all the years I’ve worked in this business, I have never had better data to manage my department with. Now I know where to spend my resources to make improvements and I’m confident this will drive the OEE up over the next year without a doubt. Our whole site is improving from this."