Most of a facility's lifetime reliability is locked in long before it ever starts up: in design decisions, equipment selection, and how maintainability is, or isn't, built into the project. Waiting until commissioning to think about reliability is usually too late and too expensive to fix. This course shows engineers and asset teams how to embed reliability requirements into every stage of a new facility's delivery, from design through to handover.

Delivered as part of Operations Readiness and Assurance Training courses by Arab British Fellowship Training Academy, within the Engineering maintenance and operation category, participants apply RAM analysis, reliability engineering, maintainability, and asset performance principles to real project scenarios, covering design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operational handover.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand why reliability outcomes are largely determined during design, procurement, and construction, not after startup.
• Apply RAM (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability) principles to facility and equipment planning.
• Identify critical equipment, failure modes, and reliability risks before startup.
• Build reliability specifications into equipment selection, vendor requirements, and procurement documentation.
• Establish maintainability requirements, including access, inspection, and repair considerations, within facility design.
• Assure reliability during construction and commissioning through installation quality checks and pre-commissioning reviews.
• Develop maintenance strategies aligned with asset performance and reliability-centred maintenance principles.
• Evaluate equipment and maintenance readiness before handover, using structured verification and assurance processes.
• Apply reliability engineering techniques to reduce early-life equipment failures.
• Support an effective transition from project delivery to reliable, sustained operational performance.

Who Should Attend

• Reliability and maintenance engineers.
• Maintenance managers and supervisors.
• Operations engineers and managers.
• Asset performance and integrity professionals.
• Project engineers and project managers.
• Commissioning and startup personnel.
• Operations readiness and assurance professionals.
• Engineering and maintenance planners.
• Facilities and plant managers.
• Engineering consultants working on new facility projects.

Module 1: Why Reliability Starts at Design, Not at Startup

• The cost of retrofitting reliability after commissioning.
• Reliability lifecycle and asset lifecycle integration.
• Reliability readiness versus operational readiness.
• Roles and responsibilities across project and operations teams.

Module 2: Reliability Engineering Fundamentals

• Reliability engineering principles and failure modes.
• Reliability objectives, allocation and design considerations.
• Early-life failure prevention.
• Reliability assurance throughout project development.

Module 3: RAM Analysis and Asset Criticality

• RAM (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability) concepts and modelling.
• Equipment criticality assessment.
• Failure data, reliability assumptions and availability targets.
• Identifying critical systems and equipment.

Module 4: Building Reliability Into Design and Procurement

• Reliability specifications for equipment and vendor requirements.
• Equipment selection and reliability considerations.
• Procurement documentation and technical evaluation.
• Factory acceptance testing and supplier reliability data.

Module 5: Maintainability and Maintenance Readiness

• Maintainability principles in facility design.
• Maintenance access, inspection, repair and replacement requirements.
• Preventive and predictive maintenance strategies.
• Spare parts and maintenance resource requirements.

Module 6: Reliability During Construction and Commissioning

• Reliability assurance during construction and installation quality.
• Pre-commissioning reliability checks and commissioning readiness.
• Defect identification, rectification, preservation and storage.

Module 7: Verifying and Assuring Reliability Readiness

• Reliability readiness reviews and checklists.
• Verification processes, documentation and records.
• Outstanding actions, punch-list management, handover and acceptance criteria.

Module 8: Asset Performance and Operational Handover

• Asset performance requirements and maintenance strategy handover.
• CMMS and asset data readiness.
• Reliability-centred maintenance considerations.
• Performance monitoring, KPIs and transition to operations.

Module 9: Reliability Risk Management and Continuous Improvement

• Identification, assessment and prioritisation of reliability risks.
• Failure prevention strategies and reliability risk registers.
• Mitigation, contingency planning and managing risks during startup.
• Building a reliability readiness programme and dashboard.