Improve Your Maintenance and Reliability Management
Find out more about UW–Madison’s Maintenance and Reliability Management Certificate (MRM) program today!
Keep pace with the latest innovations and technology, while completing courses in the series. Each course features practical, problem-solving strategies, designed to help new and experienced maintenance professionals. Earn your Maintenance and Reliability Management Certificate (MRM) by completing one required course, Reliability-Centered Maintenance, and choosing four other courses from the MRM series held in Madison or online. You can also attend as many courses as you wish, in any order, without obligation to the certificate. The choice is yours.
Click here to download the latest Maintenance and Reliability course schedule.
Benefits
The Maintenance and Reliability Management course series will help you learn practical solutions to everyday problems and increase your value to your organization. By staying current with the latest maintenance practices and technologies, you’ll know how to handle complex maintenance challenges and contribute to the bottom line. And, you’ll meet colleagues from other companies who are experiencing some of the same problems. Our instructors have decades of practical, real-world experience, and they’ve received excellent ratings from past students.
Who Should Enroll?
If you are…
- Involved or responsible for your company’s asset or maintenance program
- Part of the change process in your organization’s maintenance
- New to the field
- A senior member of the maintenance team who is tired of doing the same thing and getting the same results, constantly putting out fires, and never having the time to do things right
…you will benefit and save your company time and money! Courses cover maintenance management topics including preventive/predictive maintenance for production and facilities, total productive maintenance and purchasing and inventory management.
Obtain CMRP Certification
You can earn your Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) credentials through the Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP). SMRP is a nonprofit professional society formed by practitioners to develop and promote excellence in maintenance, reliability and physical asset management while creating leaders in the profession. SMRP provides unparalleled value for individual practitioners and professionals looking to expand their knowledge and skills, while building on business connections with others.
Beginning September 3, 2019, all CMRP and CMRT exams must be taken at an approved computer-based testing center. You can search for an approved test center closest to your location here.
UW-Madison Engineering Professional Development (EPD) is working with SMRP to become an approved CMRP computer-based exam proctor by March 2020.
Earn your Maintenance and Reliability Management Certificate (MRM) by completing one required courses and four elective courses from the MRM series held in Madison, Wisconsin, or online. Attend as many courses as you wish, in any order.
Timeframe: 75 hours of coursework. Typically, students need two years to complete the certificate.
Cost: Individual course costs range from $1,295 to $1,695
Required Course
Choose Four More Courses (in-person/online):
In-Person Elective Courses
- Planning and Scheduling Maintenance Operations
- Predictive Maintenance Technologies and Utilization
- Preventive Maintenance Optimization
- Root-Cause Analysis Tools for Maintenance Professionals
- Using FMEA and RCM to Reduce Equipment Failures
- Using TPEM to Improve Total Productive Maintenance Performance
Online Elective Courses
Questions?
Contact Jeff Oelke, EPD Program Director, for more details.
Click here to view past Maintenance and Reliability Management Certificate recipients!
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