Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP)

Designed for:

• Maintenance and reliability engineers and supervisors
• Planners, schedulers, and maintenance team leaders
• Operations and production supervisors responsible for asset performance
• Asset managers and continuous improvement professionals

No formal prerequisites. A basic understanding of plant maintenance practices is recommended. Participants may bring examples of current challenges from their facilities.

Maintenance & Reliability Foundations

• Reliability strategy and value creation
• Asset lifecycle and risk‑based thinking
• Roles, competencies, and organizational models
• Overview of exam domains and study approach

Work Management Excellence

• Work identification and prioritization (risk/criticality)
• Planning standards, job plans, kitting, and BOMs
• Scheduling logic, frozen schedules, and coordination with operations
• Backlog control and effectiveness reviews

Strategy: PM, PdM, and RCM Essentials

• Designing effective PM programs and failure‑mode alignment
• Predictive technologies overview (condition monitoring)
• RCM logic: functions, failures, effects, and tasks
• Optimizing strategies with criticality and cost‑risk tradeoffs

Materials, MRO & Performance Management

• Spare parts strategy, storeroom controls, and critical spares
• Maintenance budgeting and cost control
• KPIs, leading/lagging indicators, and reliability dashboards
• Using CMMS/EAM data quality to enable decision‑making

People, Culture & Exam Readiness

• Maintenance leadership, crafts utilization, and contractor management
• Defect elimination and continuous improvement culture
• Review of sample questions and exam tips
• Personal action plan and implementation roadmap