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Reliability Engineering and Asset Performance Foundations

Many African maintenance functions collect failure and cost data but struggle to turn it into better reliability. This programme introduces the core methods of reliability engineering and asset performance management, showing how to measure reliability, understand failure patterns and target the assets that matter most. Participants learn to build a practical reliability improvement programme grounded in their own plant data.

What you will be able to do

  • Define reliability, availability and maintainability and how they are measured.
  • Analyse failure and downtime data to reveal patterns and bad actors.
  • Apply reliability metrics such as mean time between failures to guide decisions.
  • Rank assets by criticality to focus reliability effort where it pays.
  • Select improvement methods suited to each failure pattern and asset.
  • Build a reliability improvement plan and track its results over time.

Course outline

  1. 01Reliability, availability and maintainability
  2. 02Failure patterns and data analysis
  3. 03Core reliability metrics and their use
  4. 04Asset criticality and prioritisation
  5. 05Matching improvement methods to failures
  6. 06Building the reliability programme
  7. 07Tracking and sustaining results

Who should attend

Reliability engineers, maintenance planners, engineers and supervisors who want to move from data collection to measurable improvements in asset performance.

Dates, venues and fees

DatesVenueDaysFeeCalendar
17 to 19 Aug 2026Cape Town3R13,000
31 Aug to 2 Sep 2026Online3US$900
7 to 9 Sep 2026Mozambique3US$1,500
14 to 16 Sep 2026Cairo3US$1,500
21 to 23 Sep 2026Accra3US$1,500
28 to 30 Sep 2026Lusaka3US$1,500
5 to 7 Oct 2026Kigali3US$1,500
12 to 14 Oct 2026Nairobi3US$1,500
19 to 21 Oct 2026Durban3R13,000
26 to 28 Oct 2026Johannesburg3R13,000
9 to 11 Nov 2026Mauritius3US$1,500
16 to 18 Nov 2026Dubai3US$1,500
23 to 25 Nov 2026Lagos3US$1,500
30 Nov to 2 Dec 2026Harare3US$1,500
7 to 9 Dec 2026Kampala3US$1,500
14 to 16 Dec 2026Dar es Salaam3US$1,500
21 to 23 Dec 2026Pretoria3R13,000

Fees are per delegate. South African venues are priced in rand; other locations and online in US dollars. Fees exclude 15% VAT where applicable. Group bookings of three or more delegates from the same organisation qualify for a reduced rate; contact us for a quotation.

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