Reliability Engineering Certification (REC)
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Reliability Engineering Certification (REC) – Build Reliable, High-Performance Systems
Achieve your Reliability Engineering Certification (REC) from one of the nation’s top engineering schools and advance your expertise in asset management, predictive maintenance, and risk reduction. This program equips you with practical skills you can apply immediately on the job—strengthening your organization’s reliability strategy while demonstrating your commitment to continuous improvement.
Through a sequence of four required courses and a capstone work product, you’ll learn to:
- Build and sustain a strategic reliability engineering program
- Develop control strategies that reduce risk and improve asset utilization
- Establish predictive maintenance systems and root cause analysis programs
- Minimize downtime, increase production, and foster a culture of continuous improvement
- Demonstrate practical learning application through your workplace capstone project
Certification Requirements:
- Complete four required courses (8.4 CEUs total)
- Fulfill the Capstone Work Product requirement, which includes:
- Criticality ranking
- Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Proposed predictive maintenance plan
- Presentation and defense of findings
Who Should Attend:
The REC is designed for professionals responsible for improving asset reliability, reducing failures, implementing predictive maintenance programs, and leading cultural change toward continuous improvement.
Required Courses:
When: Feb. 3-5, 2026 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. EST
Where: Online
Cost: $1,995
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.
Also part of the Maintenance Management Certificate.
When: April 14-16, 2026 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. EST
Where: Online
Cost: $1,995
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.
Also part of the Maintenance Management Certification Program.
When: Apr. 28-30, 2026 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. CDT
Where: University of Kansas Edwards Campus (12600 Quivira Rd., Overland Park, KS 66213)
Cost: $1,995
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.
Also part of the Maintenance Management Certification Program.
When: June 16-18, 2026 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. EST
Where: Online
Cost: $1,995
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.
REC Work Product Requirement
When: Sept. 2-5, 2025
Where: Online
Cost: $2,495
When: Feb. 9-13, 2026
Where: Online
Cost: $2,495
When: Sept. 1-4, 2026
Where: Online
Cost: $2,495
When: Feb. 8-12, 2027
Where: Online
Cost: $2,495
When: Aug. 30-Sept. 3, 2027
Where: Online
Cost: $2,495
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.
Eliminated a chronic failure that reduced line downtime by 44%, saving $17,520/ month. Implemented a new PM inspection to reduce unscheduled downtime by 67%, saving $130K annually. Established PdM tasks to increase line OEE by 1.6%, saving $1M annually.