What is a Machinery Lubrication Engineer?
This is an engineering-level certification targeting reliability and asset management professionals with a strong emphasis in lubrication and lubricant analysis. The certification is ideal for those with daily activities associated with development, implementation and management of lubrication programmes. It is intentionally structured for those with responsibility to guide and facilitate organisations in tactical steps towards ISO 55001 certification. This is both an engineering and management level certification for those providing general engineering support to a user lubrication programme including lubricant selection, lubrication and sampling hardware selection and implementation, overall lubrication programme design, procedure development, optimizing lubricant PMs and inspection programme design, lubricant analysis and troubleshooting, lubrication programme metrics, training and skills remediation, and management/staff communications.
Requirements for Taking the MLE Exam
Education and/or Experience – Candidates must have at least 5 years’ education (post-secondary) or on-the-job training in one or more of the following fields: engineering, mechanical maintenance, maintenance trades, lubrication, oil analysis and/or condition monitoring (mechanical machinery). No engineering degree or ICML certifications are pre-requisites to candidacy for the MLE certification. However, the MLAs and MLTs would support a candidate’s preparation for the MLE test.
Each candidate must pass a written, 150 question multiple choice MLE exam. A score of 70% is required to pass the examination and achieve certification. Recertification is required every 3 years. To recertify individuals must accumulate 15 recertification points over the three-year period.
A&S International, MLE Certification Preparation Class
This 4-day course offers content and instruction to prepare for the International Council for Machinery lubrication (ICML) Machinery Lubrication Engineer (MLE) exam.
Course Outline:
- Asset Management, ISO 55000 & ICML 55
- Machine Reliability and Machine Maintenance
- Condition-based Maintenance (CBM)
- Tribology; Friction, Wear, and Lubrication
- Lubricant Formulation for Machine Types
- Job- and Task-based Skills/Training
- Risk Management for Lubricated Machines
- Optimum Machine Modifications
- Lubricant Selection
- Lubrication-related Planning, Scheduling and Work Processing
- Inspection of Lubricated Machines
- Lubricant Analysis and Condition Monitoring
- Fault/Failure Troubleshooting, Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Remediation
- Supplier Compliance/Alignment and Procurement of Services and Products
- Waste and Used Lubricant Management and Environmental Compliance
- Energy Conservation, Environmental Protection, and Health and Safety
- Lubricant Storage and Commissioning
- Programme Metrics and Continuous Improvement
MLE Examination (optional)
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