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Water Storage Tanks Operation, Maintenance, and Rehabilitation

Upcoming Dates
  • May 20-22, 2025 (D656)
    Madison, WI or Live Online
    $1,395
Water storage tanks are an important, visible component of your water distribution system. Operation and maintenance of water storage tanks can significantly impact fire protection, water quality, service delivery, and maintenance costs. Rehabilitation costs for existing tanks sometimes exceed original construction costs, so it is important to select operation, maintenance, inspection, and repair procedures that will minimize the life cycle costs of your tanks. In this course, you will learn how to properly and cost-effectively operate, maintain, and rehabilitate steel and concrete elevated tanks, ground storage tanks, and standpipes. 
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RA00207

Fundamentals of Substation Equipment and Control Systems

Upcoming Dates
  • Jan. 28-30, 2025 (D351)
    Face-to-Face Lake Buena Vista, FL
    $1,895
  • May 6-8, 2025 (D420)
    Madison, WI or Live Online
    $1,895
  • Oct. 21-23, 2025 (D625)
    Madison, WI or Live Online
    $1,895
This course will introduce you to the equipment that makes up an electric substation and guide you through the control and wiring diagrams that control equipment operation. Professional engineers with decades of design and field experience will walk you through typical equipment start-up and troubleshooting procedures. You will gain a practical understanding of how substation equipment is controlled and operated and be able to read trip and close schematics, relate control schematics to their corresponding wiring diagrams, and design straightforward control system schematics.
Discipline: Electrical
RA00509

Precision and Predictive Maintenance

Upcoming Dates
  • Apr. 7-8, 2025 (D551)
    Madison, WI or Live Online
    $1,295
In this course, you will learn to apply proven predictive maintenance approaches that optimize availability of equipment, reduce maintenance costs, and improve product quality. Our expert instructor will help you understand which PdM diagnostic technologies are best for your plant.
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Discipline: Industrial
RA01068

Best Practices in Maintenance and Reliability

Upcoming Dates
  • Apr. 15-17, 2025 (D550)
    Madison, WI or Live Online
    $1,695
  • Sep. 23-25, 2025 (D560)
    Madison, WI or Live Online
    $1,695
This required 3-day, highly interactive course designed to build student's knowledge on global best practices regardless of the learner’s starting point is new and improved, as one of the 5 total courses required for the MRM Certificate.  Course content as outlined is based on the Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP) knowledge base.   Extensive research was conducted using today’s leading and latest sources for best practices.  Many who have completed this program gain confidence and, along with independent study, go on to successfully achieve their certification as a maintenance and reliability professional (CMRP). 
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Discipline: Industrial
RA01362

Effectively Managing Your Maintenance Team Through Change Leadership

Upcoming Dates
  • Apr. 9-10, 2025 (D552)
    Madison, WI or Live Online
    $1,295
This course provides an in-depth exploration of change leadership principles and practices specifically tailored for professionals in maintenance and reliability. Participants will learn how to effectively lead change initiatives, improve maintenance and reliability processes, and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
Discipline: Industrial
RA01433

Developing a High-Performance Maintenance and Reliability Organization

Upcoming Dates
  • May 19-20, 2025 (D553)
    Madison, WI or Live Online
    $1,295
In today’s competitive business environment, the difference between success and failure is often based on how well our machines and facilities perform. Learn detailed strategic approaches to management and leadership in maintenance and reliability. You will leave this course with the ability to create a strategy, and develop and manage your team. The course will also include an overview of major approaches such as Reliability Centered Maintenance, ISO55000, and PM Optimization for effectively managing assets.  
Discipline: Industrial
RA01483

Total Productive Maintenance and Operator Driven Reliability

Upcoming Dates
  • Sep. 10-11, 2025 (D557)
    Madison, WI or Live Online
    $1,295
Realizing and sustaining high on-demand utilization of equipment is achievable with a fully functioning total productive maintenance (TPM) system. This class provides an overview of TPM and dives deep into 2 pivotal pillars for a TPM system to yield meaningful results: Planned Maintenance and Autonomous Maintenance.
Customizable
Discipline: Industrial
RA01638

Self-Paced Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices

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    Online Anytime
    $1,695
This self-paced Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices course plays a critical part in any well-functioning organization, providing maintenance excellence on the right assets at the right frequencies.  Companies that excel with the world class practices as outlined throughout the learning, can reduce machine downtime by up to 50% and extend machinery and/or asset life by over 25%.
Discipline: Industrial
RA01817
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