Most Equipment Failures Are Preventable

Why Lubrication Training Matters in Australia & New Zealand

Australian and New Zealand plants face the same lubrication challenges that have cost facilities across the globe in downtime, maintenance spend, and equipment life. Mobius Institute Australia now delivers the training that has helped thousands of professionals worldwide close that gap with hands-on, practical education, built for the people who keep equipment running.

• Getting lubrication wrong is expensive
• The wrong lubricant — or the right one applied incorrectly
• Particle and water contamination failures that are often misdiagnosed

This training is built for the people who are closest to the problem and the leaders responsible for fixing the outcomes.

Lubrication Technicians

The people on the floor every day who need practical, immediately applicable skills and a path to professional certification.

Maintenance Engineers

Those responsible for designing and improving lubrication programs across one or multiple sites.

Reliability Professionals

Leaders who need the strategic tools to build a world-class lubrication program and make the business case for it.

Credentials That Travel With You

The certifications these courses prepare you for are recognised by mining, manufacturing, energy, utilities industries. They’re globally portable credentials that follow your career wherever it takes you.

MIBoC

Internationally accredited certification body recognising excellence in condition monitoring and reliability training.

ICML

International Council for Machinery Lubrication is the global standard for lubrication certification (MLT I, MLA I, MLE, LAT).

STLE

Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers is the professional home of lubrication science worldwide.

Your Instructors

Mobius Institute Australia's lubrication courses are delivered by certified practitioners who've spent their careers on plant floor. They've worked across mining, manufacturing, refineries, and food processing at every scale. They've diagnosed failures that stopped production, built programs that transformed reliability, and prepared thousands of professionals for ICML and MIBoC certification.

Bennett Fitch

Title: President, Noria Corporation & Mobius Institute Australia — Course Instructor

Bennett Fitch is President of Noria Corporation and Mobius Institute, and holds ICML's three highest certifications: MLE, MLT II, and MLA III. — backed by a mechanical engineering degree from Georgia Tech and an MBA from the University of Tulsa. His career spans oil analysis, machinery lubrication, and lubrication program development across industrial sectors worldwide. Students value his ability to make technically dense material feel approachable — an interactive, relaxed teaching style that keeps even experienced professionals engaged.

Credentials: ICML certifications held MLE, MLT II, MLA III

Wes Cash

Title: Executive Vice President of Services, Noria Corporation — Course Instructor

Wes Cash knows what it's like to work with your hands. As Executive Vice President of Services at Noria Corporation, Wes has helped companies across multiple industries transform underperforming lubrication practices into programs that catch the attention of its organizational leaders. His style is direct, practical, and deliberately free of jargon. He is known for instructing in a way that connects with technicians and engineers alike.

Credentials: ICML MLA I, FPL

Chris Mathers

Title: Asset Health Professional & Instructor, Noria Corporation & Mobius Institute Australia

Chris has spent 15 years in maintenance and condition monitoring across mining and industrial operations, building expertise across the full discipline rather than any single area. As an instructor with Mobius Institute Australia and Noria, he's known for bringing real plant-floor examples into the classroom helping professionals understand not just what to do, but why it works.

Credentials: ARP-A/E/L, MLA III, MLT II, LLA II, FL CAT I, IRT CAT I, VIM, VPR, MA I, UCAT I & FPL | TCAT III (Infraspection Institute)