Course Description
Reliability engineering provides the quantitative foundation for understanding, measuring, and improving the reliability of physical assets. This course develops the core competencies of the reliability engineer — from reliability statistics and failure data analysis through to reliability modelling and improvement.
Participants learn the fundamental principles of reliability, including failure patterns, reliability metrics, life data analysis, and the tools used to make data-driven reliability decisions. The course bridges theory and practice, equipping engineers to apply reliability methods to real maintenance and asset management challenges.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the fundamental principles of reliability engineering
- Apply reliability metrics: MTBF, MTTR, availability, reliability functions
- Understand failure patterns and the bathtub curve
- Perform basic life data (Weibull) analysis
- Analyse failure data and industry databases
- Apply reliability block diagrams and system reliability
- Introduce reliability growth principles
- Make data-driven reliability and maintenance decisions
How the course is delivered
The course combines reliability theory with practical data analysis exercises, including Weibull analysis and reliability calculations. Participants apply reliability methods to realistic failure data and system scenarios.
The programme balances statistical rigour with practical application, accessible to engineers without a heavy statistics background.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Reliability and maintenance engineers
- Asset managers and plant engineers
- Engineers moving into reliability roles
- Data-focused maintenance professionals
- Anyone needing quantitative reliability skills
Daily programme
- Principles and definitions of reliability
- Failure patterns and the bathtub curve
- Reliability, availability, and maintainability
- The role of reliability engineering
- MTBF, MTTR, and failure rate
- The reliability function
- Availability calculations
- Interpreting reliability metrics
- Collecting and classifying failure data
- Introduction to Weibull analysis
- Life data analysis
- Using industry failure databases (ISO 14224)
- Reliability block diagrams
- Series and parallel systems
- Redundancy and its effects
- System reliability modelling
- Reliability growth principles
- Applying reliability to maintenance decisions
- Reliability in design
- Case study workshop and review
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
