The Certified Reliability Engineer Handbook, 3rd Edition

This handbook is fully updated to the 2018 Body of Knowledge for the Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE), including the new sections on leadership, performance monitoring, root cause analysis, and quality triangles. Its purpose is to assist individuals preparing for the examination and to provide a reference for the practitioner. Several “typical” examples are provided throughout based on the collective experience and knowledge of the authors and editor.

The chapters and sections are numbered by the same format used in the Body of Knowledge (BoK) for the CRE examination. It also includes a comprehensive glossary of reliability-related terms and appendices with, among other things, various useful distribution tables.

List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments

Part I : Reliability Fundamentals
Chapter 1 : A. Leadership Foundations
Chapter 2 : B. Reliability Foundations

Part II : Risk Management
Chapter 3 : A. Identification
Chapter 4 : B. Analysis
Chapter 5 : C. Mitigation

Part III : Probability and Statistics for Reliability
Chapter 6 : A. Basic Concepts
Chapter 7 : B. Data Management

Part IV : Reliability Planning, Testing, and Modeling
Chapter 8 : A. Planning
Chapter 9 : B. Testing
Chapter 10 : C. Modeling

Part V : Lifecycle Reliability
Chapter 11 : A. Reliability Design Techniques
Chapter 12 : B. Parts and Systems Development
Chapter 13 : C. Maintainability

Part VI : Appendices
Appendix A : ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer Body of Knowledge
Appendix B : ASQ Code of Ethics
Appendix C : Control Limit Formulas
Appendix D : Constants for Control Charts
Appendix E : Areas under Standard Normal Curve
Appendix F : F Distribution F0.1
Appendix G : F Distribution F0.05
Appendix H : F Distribution F0.01
Appendix I : Chi-Square Distribution
Appendix J : Values of the t Distribution
Appendix K : Statistical Tolerance Factors for at Least 99% of the Population
Appendix L : Critical Values for the Mann-Whitney Test
Appendix M : Critical Values for Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test
Appendix N : Poisson Distribution
Appendix O : Binomial Distribution
Appendix P : Exponential Distribution
Appendix Q : Median Ranks
Glossary
References
Index