About Reliability Institute of Australia

The ARP [A] - Advocate certification course is suitable for managers, engineers, planners, supervisors, team leaders, technicians, service providers and everyone working within an organization who in any way influences the design, engineering, procurement, maintenance planning, maintenance activities or operation of critical rotating machinery and electrical equipment.  It gives the "big-picture" of why unreliability exists, how it creeps into an operation and what the key steps are to eliminate it. A minimum of 6 months work experience is the only prerequisite.   The course takes 3 days to compete (including the exam) in the classroom and is also available as a Distance Learning course.

  The ARP [E] - Reliability Engineer course is intended for industrial reliability engineers charged with helping the organization improve reliability and performance, and for anyone else in the organization who desires to have an in-depth knowledge of the reliability improvement process.  This course shows that data analysis is just the start and teaches other skills and actions that are required to achieve results. 

The only pre-requisite for certification is a minimum of 24 months experience.  

It is not necessary to have completed the Advocate course  first.

The course takes 5 days to complete (including the exam)  and is also available as a Distance Learning course. 

  The ARP [L]  - Reliability Leader course is intended for those who have taken the lead role in a reliability and performance improvement program and supervise  Reliability Engineers. While technical knowledge is important, it is essential to lead people with clear and frequent communication, while having strong budget and project management skills.  A reliability program leader needs to understand the nature of the challenges  you will face and have a strategy for overcoming them. Although not essential, it is recommended that students have completed the ARP [E] or similar courses. 

The course takes 5 days to complete (including the exam)  and is also available as a Distance Learning course.  

This course is intended for the vibration analyst

who will:

• Collect vibration data

• Validate that the data is good

• Begin to perform basic analysis

• Use the training and certification as the start

of a new and rewarding career as a vibration analyst  

This course is intended for the vibration analyst

who will:

• Collect vibration data

• Validate that the data is good

• Set up the analyzer for routine data collection

and special tests

• Diagnose most of the common fault conditions

• Perform special tests to validate unbalance,

misalignment, resonance, looseness, and other

conditions

• Know how to perform precision shaft

alignment and balancing

• Use the training and certification as the next

step in a rewarding  career as a vibration analyst.

This course is intended for the vibration analyst

who will:

• Have a minimum of 3 years of experience

• Have a senior role in the condition monitoring

team

• Have others report to them to verify diagnoses

• Be responsible for the most complex fault

conditions (with the possible exception of

sleeve bearing, flexible rotor machines)

• Need to perform complex tests to validate fault conditions  and find a solution

• Want to be a leader of the vibration team or

take a leading role in diagnosing faults and

making repair recommendations

• Want to understand all data collector options,

special test capabilities, all analysis tools and

understand the widest range of fault conditions

• Want to understand all condition monitoring

technologies, how and when to apply them

• Want to understand machine dynamics (natural frequencies, resonance, ODS), and fix resonance problems