Asset Reliability Practitioner – Leader (ARP-L)

Introduction

For the True Leader of the Reliability Improvement Initiative

You have an exceptional opportunity to make your plant safer, more efficient, and more competitive. Success will bring greater job security and satisfaction to your team — but only if the program truly succeeds.

With that opportunity comes responsibility. Many reliability initiatives fail, but this course is designed to help you lead one that lasts.

True reliability leadership means:

  • Understanding and communicating the value of reliability

  • Developing a clear, actionable strategy

  • Engaging the entire organization to work toward a common goal

Leadership vs. Program Management
Reliability improvement is often mistaken for a technical challenge, but leadership goes far beyond managing technical solutions. It requires vision, communication, and the ability to inspire cultural change.

A true leader delivers measurable value, sustains engagement, and continuously improves performance through reliability and waste reduction. This course will show you how to lead with purpose, avoid common pitfalls, and build a reliability program that delivers lasting results.

Who should attend

Who Should Attend

  • Plant Managers, Technical Directors, and Department Heads

  • Professionals responsible for developing maintenance and reliability strategies

  • Leaders committed to long-term organizational transformation

Benefits
  • You will be capable of successfully leading a reliability improvement program.

    You will understand:

    • How to develop the economic justification

    • How to create and implement an effective strategy

    • How to build a culture of reliability and continuous performance improvement

    • How to ensure everyone is trained, motivated, and qualified to perform their roles

    • How to move beyond reactive maintenance

    • How to lead a disciplined team that:

      • Cares for equipment to maximize its lifespan

      • Learns from data to make informed, effective decisions

      • Continuously improves every process and practice

Course Outline

TOPICS COVERED

Getting Started

  • Goals of reliability improvement

Implementation

  • Why programs fail
  • The Asset Reliability Transformation (ART) process

The Economics of Reliability

  • Financial language and basic financial analysis

Phase One: Value

  • Performance (e.g., safety, quality, profit maximization)
  • Constraints (capital, regulations, raw materials)
  • Risk (Pareto analysis, asset criticality ranking)
  • Opportunities (peak business performance, TEEP, OEE)
  • Gaining management support

Phase Two: Strategy

  • Implementation strategy
  • Asset strategy

The Psychology of Reliability

  • Decision making
  • Behavior change

Human Error and Human Performance Management

  • Causes and management of human error

Culture Change

  • Why and how to change culture

Phase Three: People

  • Leadership’s role
  • Getting buy-in for reliability improvement
  • Training and certification
Phase Four: Control

  • Breaking out of reactive maintenance cycles

Phase Five: Acquire

  • Project management
  • Designing for reliability
  • Acceptance testing

Phase Six: Discipline

  • CMMS/EAM systems
  • Documenting procedures
  • Managing shutdowns, turnarounds, outages
  • 5S and visual workplace

Phase Seven: Care

  • Basic care: lubrication and cleanliness
  • Operator-driven reliability

Phase Eight: Analytics

  • Reviewing and improving financial performance
  • Monitoring KPIs
  • Condition-Based Maintenance
  • Predictive analytics

Phase Nine: End of Life (EOL)

  • Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA)
  • Recording failure data

Phase Ten: Optimize

  • Continuous improvement
  • Re-assessing risks, goals, constraints, and opportunities

 

 

 

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  • Duration
    5 days
  • Format
    Online / In-house / Public
  • Prerequisite
    None ( Who should attend?)
  • Certificate
    Issued by Mobius Institute, ISO 18436-2 & ISO 17024 accredited. Globally recognized.