Engineering & Lean Six Sigma

Certificate Programs

This certification program will enable you to:

  • Build and sustain a maintenance program
  • Establish appropriate maintenance KPIs and visual management dashboard
  • Select the optimum equipment maintenance strategy
  • Implement work management strategies that improve asset availability and utilization
  • Increase maintenance personnel productivity
  • Build a problem-solving culture
  • Manage an effective maintenance budget

To earn a Maintenance Management Certification (MMC), candidates must complete four courses and successfully pass the Maintenance Management Certification exam within three years.

For more information, please reach out to professionalprograms@ku.edu.

The Planning and Scheduling Certification (PSC) builds and certifies competency in building and sustaining a maintenance planning and scheudling program. Successful candidates will learn practical skills that can be applied on the job right away, demonstrate their commitment to building a solid maintenance planning and scheduling program, and increase their value to your organization.

Participants learn how to:
  • Move your organization from a reactive to proactive environment.
  • Calculate work management performance metrics.
  • Develop a comprehensive "standard" job plan and apply work planning best practices.
  • Develop governing principles and standard procedures for CMMS data entry and use.
  • Describe a disciplined approach to managing work for aplanned shutdown.
  • Develop an audit and continuous improvement strategy for the planning program.


To earn a Planning and Scheduling Certification (PSC), candidates must complete four courses and successfully pass the certification exam within three years.

For more information on how to earn a PSC, please email professionalprograms@ku.edu.
The Reliability Engineering Certification (REC) builds and certifies competency in reliability engineering and asset management. Successful candidates will be able to apply reliability engineering to build asset management programs that are consistent with ISO 55000 Asset Management standards.

Participants learn how to:
  • Create Asset Management Plans that comply with ISO 55000
  • Build and sustain a strategic reliability engineering program
  • Prepare control strategies that reduce risk and improve utilization
  • Design predictive maintenance strategies and programs
  • Establish a root cause analysis program


The REC requires completion of four three-day courses and documented application of reliability engineering in the form of a work product.

For more information on how to earn a REC, please email professionalprograms@ku.edu.