Industrial Engineering Programs
Warehouse and Distribution Center Layout Certificate
A well-planned warehouse layout will help you reduce operating costs by improving warehouse processes and inventory control.
Courses
Where: Online, Self-paced
Description:
In this course, you will receive hands-on training in Systematic Layout Planning (SLP) - the world's most structured approach to layout and facilities planning. In addition to lectures, you will learn by doing, with over 100 pages of worksheets and case exercises. Guided by a leading authority on warehouse/DC layout, you will practice diagramming and quantifying material flow. You will also learn how to chart and diagram all the relationships in your layouts.
Systematic Layout Planning (SLP) Certificate
Systematic Layout Planning (SLP) is recognized throughout the world as the most organized way to lay out a facility for efficient operation. Leading companies have made it a standard practice in their Lean and Six Sigma programs.
Courses
Systematic Layout Planning for Lean Facilities Certificate
Where: Online, Self-paced
Description:
This course will prepare you to lead layout projects using SLP and to achieve remarkable results in record time.
In Modules 1-3 you will learn and practice SLP, a powerful and universal method. In Module 4, you will use SLP to prepare a manufacturing plant layout and to prepare a detailed equipment layout for the that layout. Finally, you will learn to organize and lead your next layout project using SLP.
Watch video below to learn more about the structure of the class and more detailed information about the certification and learning modules.
Lean Six Sigma
Lean Six Sigma certification allows you to demonstrate your value to your organization and provides useful professional skills, as well as a valuable professional credential. This approach to business performance improvement promotes speed, efficiency, lowers waste and error removal, allowing your organization to improve overall quality without sacrificing time or extra labor. Lean Six Sigma processes are used by some of the biggest names in business, such as Amazon, 3M, Ford, GE, and Geico.
Courses
Where: Online, Self-paced
Description:
Organizations, both public and private, need to work faster, reduce costs, and maintain high standards of consistency and quality. They can achieve these goals through improvement programs such as Lean and Six Sigma. The Lean process emphasizes waste reduction and improved processing speed, and Six Sigma stresses an analytical approach to the elimination of defects and the reduction of variation. When combined, they can solve organizational problems and improve performance, leading to a competitive edge. This on-demand, online program prepares new Green Belts to lead projects and contribute to improving services and manufacturing. Those who pass the exam will receive Green Belt certification from the University of Kansas.
Where: Online, Self-paced
Description:
This online program prepares those who already have a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt to coordinate and lead large projects by utilizing Lean Six Sigma philosophies and principles, demonstrating team leadership, understanding team dynamics and assigning team member roles and responsibilities. Lean Six Sigma Black Belts communicate to management, provide leadership to projects, and train others working on projects. Those who pass the exam will receive Black Belt certification from the University of Kansas.
Reliability Engineering Certification
The Reliability Engineering Certification (REC) builds and certifies competency in reliability engineering and asset management. Successful candidates will be able to apply reliability engineering to build asset management programs that are consistent with ISO 55000 Asset Management standards. The REC requires completion of four three-day courses and documented application of reliability engineering in the form of a work product.
Required Courses
When: Feb. 4-6, 2025 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. EST
Where: Online
Description:
Predictive maintenance (PdM) is not a tool, technique, or certification. Predictive maintenance is a philosophy that uses the equipment’s operating condition to make data-driven decisions and improve quality, productivity, and profitability. Unlike industry courses that focus on applying specific technologies like vibration monitoring or oil analysis, this course focuses on establishing, managing, and sustaining results from a comprehensive PdM program.
The Predictive Maintenance Strategy course considers predictive maintenance as a component of a larger asset management strategy to diagnose, prevent, and postpone failures. During this three-day course, you will learn the theory and application of multiple PdM technologies. You will review critical success factors of results-producing PdM programs. Through group activities and case studies, you will determine which predictive technologies to use, how to set goals for your program, track progress, and practice how to communicate results to different stakeholders. By the end of the session, you will have outlined what a successful PdM program can look like at your organization.
When: April 15-17, 2025 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. EST
Where: Online
Description:
Explore how to improve asset availability and meet reliability goals by applying a risk-based approach to asset maintenance and operations. In the Risk-Based Asset Management (RBAM) course, you practice how to prioritize reliability efforts on critical equipment and failures that impact your operation. RBAM incorporates reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) principles and continuous improvement practices like PDCA to position your program for decreased downtime, lower maintenance expenditures, and an acceptable total cost of ownership.
During the course, participants classify and analyze assets and failures to rank equipment criticality and draft a risk plan. Next, learners build a failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) to define control strategies and populate an equipment maintenance plan. Group activities in the class include examining how life cycle cost influences investment and choosing key performance indicators to manage a reliability program. Specific emphasis will be placed on the resources needed to create an asset management plan – a risk, maintenance, and asset operations plan – that can manage the entire life cycle of an asset.
When: May 20-22, 2025 from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. CDT
Where: University of Kansas Edwards Campus (12600 Quivira Rd., Overland Park, KS 66213)
Description:
Learn how a Reliability Engineer (RE) drives the value that assets can deliver by overseeing equipment life cycle performance from concept through disposal. In Reliability Engineering Excellence, REs learn to build a business case for reliability, design reliability into a system or process before it's built, identify operating risks, and solve problems in all areas of asset management. In this course, Life Cycle Institute reliability experts facilitate class activities around system reliability modeling and ISO 55000-based assessment and use leading and lagging indicators to manage a reliability program. Class participants examine the major components of an asset management plan, justify a capital project, and discuss asset data management concerns.
By the end of this course, you will be equipped to build and sustain a strategic Reliability Engineering program to achieve your organization's reliability goals. Special emphasis will be placed on designing for reliability, life cycle asset management, life cycle costing, reliability and statistical analysis, measuring reliability program improvements, and building organizational support for reliability.
When: June 3-5, 2025 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. CDT
Where: University of Kansas Edwards Campus (12600 Quivira Rd., Overland Park, KS 66213)
Description:
Successful managers, supervisors and technicians need to be excellent problem solvers. This course will prepare you with the tools you need to apply Root Cause Analysis (RCA) processes that solve project and equipment issues. Learn how to use RCA to establish a culture of continuous improvement, and create a proactive environment. Discover methods that let you ask the right questions, establish triggers to drive your RCA process, and perform cost-benefit analysis.
Work Product
When: Feb. 3-7, 2025 or Sept. 2-5, 2025 or Feb. 9-13, 2026 or Sept. 1-4, 2026
Description:
The Reliability Engineering Certification (REC) work product requirement demonstrates reliability engineering competency through documented workplace application.
The work product submission includes:
1. Asset criticality assessment
2. FMEA (failure modes effects analysis)
3. RCA (failure root cause analysis)
4. Proposed PdM maintenance or other control strategy
5. Documented results
6. Presentation and defense (held via virtual meeting)
Upon successful completion of the work product element, you will receive a university certificate and have the privilege of using the REC letters beside your name.
Maintenance Management Certification
Build and sustain a world-class Maintenance Program. You will learn practical skills that can be applied on the job right away, demonstrate your commitment to building a solid maintenance program and increase your value to your organization. To earn a Maintenance Management Certification (MMC), candidates must complete four courses and successfully pass the Maintenance Management Certification exam within three years.
Required Courses
When: Sept. 16-18, 2025 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. CDT
Where: University of Kansas Edwards Campus (12600 Quivira Rd., Overland Park, KS 66213)
Description:
A world-class maintenance department is driven by outstanding planning and scheduling. Good leadership, work execution and motivational and time-management techniques lead to increased productivity and motivation, lower employee turnover, increased output and less waste. This three-day course uses case studies, group discussion, reflection activities and exercises based around industry best practices to help you apply what you learn to your work situation.
Learn how to build an action plan for managing human capital, while developing an effective program for managing assets. Explore how to transition from a technician to a supervisor and investigate common supervisory staffing issues such as supervising friends, orienting new employees and delegating responsibility. As a supervisor, learn how to leverage your personal supervisory style, apply time management techniques, run effective meetings and improve maintenance delivery.
When: June 24-26, 2025 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. CDT
Where: University of Kansas Edwards Campus (12600 Quivira Rd., Overland Park, KS 66213)
Description:
In Managing Planning and Scheduling, participants build a work management program based on best practices. The course is designed for a Lead Planner or Department Manager to establish a proactive work management program or to transform an existing program into an effective, results-producing department that positively impacts maintenance costs, plant reliability measures, and employee morale.
Managing Planning and Scheduling examines topics like designing a work management program strategy, developing standard processes and work, establishing program measures, managing staff development, and planning program improvement. Learners will walk away with a solid foundation for an effective maintenance work management program.
Choose 2 Electives
When: Feb. 4-6, 2025 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. EST
Where: Online
Description:
Predictive maintenance (PdM) is not a tool, technique, or certification. Predictive maintenance is a philosophy that uses the equipment’s operating condition to make data-driven decisions and improve quality, productivity, and profitability. Unlike industry courses that focus on applying specific technologies like vibration monitoring or oil analysis, this course focuses on establishing, managing, and sustaining results from a comprehensive PdM program.
The Predictive Maintenance Strategy course considers predictive maintenance as a component of a larger asset management strategy to diagnose, prevent, and postpone failures. During this three-day course, you will learn the theory and application of multiple PdM technologies. You will review critical success factors of results-producing PdM programs. Through group activities and case studies, you will determine which predictive technologies to use, how to set goals for your program, track progress, and practice how to communicate results to different stakeholders. By the end of the session, you will have outlined what a successful PdM program can look like at your organization.
When: Mar. 18-20, 2025 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. EST
Where: Online
Description:
Maintenance planning and scheduling is one of the fastest and most effective investments an organization can make to improve productivity and availability. The processes in this course pave the way for planning and control of maintenance resources. Equipment reliability is increased. Waiting times, unnecessary parts, and inaccurate information are eliminated. Budgeting is easier and more accurate. Maintenance tasks are as much as 50% more efficient in terms of costs and time.
Maintenance Planning and Scheduling examines topics including a proactive work management process, job estimation and prioritization, backlog management, job plan development, work scheduling and coordination, tracking progress, and supporting reliability engineers with valuable equipment history and root cause analysis input.
When: April 15-17, 2025 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. EST
Where: Online
Description:
Explore how to improve asset availability and meet reliability goals by applying a risk-based approach to asset maintenance and operations. In the Risk-Based Asset Management (RBAM) course, you practice how to prioritize reliability efforts on critical equipment and failures that impact your operation. RBAM incorporates reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) principles and continuous improvement practices like PDCA to position your program for decreased downtime, lower maintenance expenditures, and an acceptable total cost of ownership.
During the course, participants classify and analyze assets and failures to rank equipment criticality and draft a risk plan. Next, learners build a failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) to define control strategies and populate an equipment maintenance plan. Group activities in the class include examining how life cycle cost influences investment and choosing key performance indicators to manage a reliability program. Specific emphasis will be placed on the resources needed to create an asset management plan – a risk, maintenance, and asset operations plan – that can manage the entire life cycle of an asset.
When: June 3-5, 2025 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. CDT
Where: University of Kansas Edwards Campus (12600 Quivira Rd., Overland Park, KS 66213)
Description:
Successful managers, supervisors and technicians need to be excellent problem solvers. This course will prepare you with the tools you need to apply Root Cause Analysis (RCA) processes that solve project and equipment issues. Learn how to use RCA to establish a culture of continuous improvement, and create a proactive environment. Discover methods that let you ask the right questions, establish triggers to drive your RCA process, and perform cost-benefit analysis.
When: Nov. 18-20, 2025 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. EST
Where: Online
Description:
Managing a storeroom is a balancing act. Storeroom managers must have the materials available to keep production flowing while minimizing inventory investment.
In this three-day class, you will learn how to ensure the right parts are in the right place at the right time. When you apply the knowledge and skills learned in this class, quality will increase and costs will decrease. You will be able to manage your storeroom in a way that successfully balances the needs of operations and maintenance while optimizing your inventory and carrying costs.
MMC Exam
The MMC exam is a 100-question exam based on the mandatory and elective courses you completed as part of the Maintenance Management Certification track.
Take the exam on your schedule! Once your registration fee is paid, select a time and date that works for you and take the MMC Exam from your home or office through our partner, ProctorU.
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You will receive an email with your exam results. After successfully passing the exam, you will receive a university certificate and have the privilege of using the MMC letters beside your name.