This 5-day ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) exam preparation course offers comprehensive training on the CRE Body of Knowledge. Participants will engage in detailed study sessions covering topics such as reliability principles, probability and statistics, performance testing, and risk management. The course includes interactive lectures, hands-on problem-solving exercises, and practice exams to build confidence and ensure thorough preparation. Designed for professionals aiming to pass the ASQ CRE exam, this course will equip participants with the necessary tools and knowledge to enhance their expertise in reliability engineering.
•Benefits of reliability engineering
•Interrelationship of safety, quality, and reliability
•Reliability engineer leadership responsibilities
•Reliability engineer role and responsibilities in the product life cycle
•The function of reliability in engineering
•Ethics in reliability engineering
•Supplier reliability assessments
•Performance monitoring
•Basic reliability terminology
•Drivers of reliability requirements and targets
•Corrective and preventive action (CAPA)
•Root cause analysis
•Product life-cycle engineering stages
•Economics of product maintainability and availability
•Cost of poor reliability
•Quality triangle
•Six-sigma methodologies
•Systems engineering and integration
•Risk management techniques
•Types of risk
•Fault tree analysis (FTA)
•Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA)
•Common modes of failure analysis
•Hazard analysis
•Risk matrix
•System safety
•Mitigation
•Basic statistics
•Basic probability concepts
•Probability distributions
•Probability functions
•Sampling plans for statistics and reliability testing
•Statistical process control and process capability studies
•Confidence and tolerance intervals
•Sources and uses of reliable data
•Types of data
•Data collection methods
•Data summary and reporting
•Failure analysis methods
•Failure reporting, analysis, and corrective action system (FRACAS)
•Reliability test strategies
•Environmental and conditions of use factors
•Failure consequence
•Failure criteria
•Test environment
•Accelerated life tests
•Stress screening
•Qualification / Demonstration testing
•Degradation
•Software testing
•Reliability block diagrams and models
•Physics of failure and failure mechanisms
•Failure models
•Reliability prediction methods
•Design prototyping
•Design evaluation techniques
•Stress-strength analysis
•Design of experiments
•Reliability optimization
•Human factors
•Design for X
•Design for Reliability
•Materials and components selection techniques
•Parts standardization and system simplification
•Maintenance strategies
•Preventive maintenance analysis
•Corrective maintenance analysis
Engineering Managers
Project/Program Engineers
System Analysts
Engineering Team Leaders
Engineering Supervisors