Table of Contents

I.  Certification Training Overview
    CRE BOK
    Six Cognitive Levels
    CRE Question Content

II. Reliability Management
    Strategic Management
      Benefits of Reliability Engr
      Quality vs Reliability
      Role of the Reliability Function
      Reliability in Development
      Failure & Liability Mgmt
      Life Cycle Cost Planning
      Customer Needs Assessment
      Project Management
    Reliability Program Management
      Terminology
      Reliability Program Elements
      Product Life Cycle & Costs
      Design Evaluation
      Requirements Management
      Reliability Training Programs
    Product Safety and Liability
      Roles and Responsibilities
      Ethical Issues
      System Safety Program
   References

III. Basic Statistical Concepts
      Statistical Terms
      Basic Probability Concepts
        Additive Law
        Multiplicative Law
        Permutations
        Combinations
      Probability Distributions
        Expectation
        PDF
        CDF
        Hazard Function
        Continuous Distributions
        Discrete Distributions
        Sampling Distributions
      Statistical Process Control
      References

IV. Advanced Statistics
      Statistical Inference
        Point and Interval Estimates
        Statistical Interval Estimates
        Hypothesis Testing
        Bayesian Technique
      DOE/Anova/Regression
        Design of Experiments
        Anova
        Regression
      References

V. Reliability in Design
      Reliability Design Techniques
        Use Factors
        Stress-Strength Analysis
        FMEA/FMECA in Design
        Fault Tree Analysis in Design
        Tolerance/ Worst-case Analyses
        Robust Design Approaches
        Human Factors Reliability
        Design for X (DFX)
      Parts and Systems Management
        Parts selection
        Material selection and control
        Derating principles
        Establishing specifications
      References

VI.  Modeling & prediction
      Reliability Modeling
        Sources of Reliability Data
        Block Diagrams
        Simulation Techniques
      Reliability Prediction
        Parts Count Predictions
        Advantages & Limitations
        Prediction Methods
        Apportionment/Allocation
      References

VII. Reliability Testing
      Reliability Test Planning
        Reliability Test Plan Elements
        Testing Types & Applications
        Test Environment Considerations
      Development Testing
        Accelerated Life Tests
        Step-stress Testing
        Reliability Growth Testing
        Software Testing
      Product Testing
        Qualification Testing
        Product Acceptance Testing
        Stress Screening
        Attribute Testing
        Degradation Testing
        Software Testing
      References

VIII. Maintainability & Availability
      Management Strategies
        Planning
        Maintenance Strategies
        Apportionment & Allocation
        Availability Tradeoffs
      Analyses
        Maintenance Time Distributions
        Preventive Maintenance Analysis
        Corrective maintenance Analysis
        Testability
        Spare Parts Strategy
      Software Maintainability
      References

IX. Data Collection and Use
      Data Collection
        Types of Data
        Data Sources
        Collection Methods
        Data Management
      Data Use
        Data Summarization
        Preventive and Corrective Action
        Measures of Effectiveness
      Data and Failure Analysis Tools
        FMEA/FMECA
        FTA/STA
        FRACAS
      References

X. Appendix
      Tables
      Supplement
      Calculus Review
      Author/name Index
      Formulas index
      Subject Index
      Question Answers

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