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Reliability and Maintainability Engineering for Quality Improvement

Unreliable equipment is a leading cause of quality defects, missed deliveries, and firefighting in African operations. Reliability and maintainability engineering brings data and method to understanding why assets fail and how quickly they can be restored. This course teaches practitioners to analyse failure data, quantify reliability, and design out chronic problems so that equipment supports consistent quality output.

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What you will be able to do

  • Explain reliability, availability, and maintainability concepts.
  • Collect and analyse equipment failure and repair data.
  • Calculate mean time between failures and mean time to repair.
  • Apply distribution analysis to understand failure patterns.
  • Prioritise chronic failures for engineering solutions.
  • Design maintenance and improvement actions that raise reliability.

Course outline

  1. 01Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability
  2. 02Collecting Quality Failure Data
  3. 03Calculating Reliability Measures
  4. 04Understanding Failure Patterns
  5. 05Prioritising Chronic Failures
  6. 06Designing Out Failures
  7. 07Linking Reliability to Quality Output
  8. 08Building a Reliability Improvement Programme

Who should attend

This course suits reliability and maintenance engineers, quality practitioners, and operations staff working to reduce equipment related defects and downtime.

Dates, venues and fees

DatesVenueDaysFeeCalendarRegister
28 Sep to 2 Oct 2026Harare5US$1,800Closed
5 to 9 Oct 2026Accra5US$1,800Register
12 to 16 Oct 2026Lagos5US$1,800Register
19 to 23 Oct 2026Dubai5US$1,800Register
26 to 30 Oct 2026Johannesburg5R18,000Register
2 to 6 Nov 2026Cape Town5R18,000Register
9 to 13 Nov 2026Durban5R18,000Register
16 to 20 Nov 2026Pretoria5R18,000Register
23 to 27 Nov 2026Nairobi5US$1,800Register
30 Nov to 4 Dec 2026Dar es Salaam5US$1,800Register
7 to 11 Dec 2026Lusaka5US$1,800Register

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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