CRE Live Preparation Course

Session 2 – Reliability Foundations

Embedded recording of the session

Resources & Links

Contact me anytime with questions or concerns.

Fred Schenkelberg
fms@accendoreliability.com
(408) 710-8248 or via Skype (I’m fmsrel or you can find me by my name, I think)
**Please arrange a time for a call or Skype to make sure I’m available and expect your call.

Glossary Type Resources

You may download these glossaries for your use. To use them during the exam you will need to print and bind (3-hole punch and in a binder – even in the Primer’s binder).

Please give it a try and let me know what is missing or any comments or thoughts to make these better documents.

Draft Formulas Glossary

Draft Book Terms Glossary

Additional Reading/Listening

You Are a Reliability Leader, Now Make a Difference

An Introduction to the Cause and Effect Diagram

Mind Mapping for Non-Linear Thinking

Basics of Affinity Diagrams

Introduction to the Quality Triangle

The Quality Triangle and Reliability

Determining Customer Reliability Requirements

Using Reliability Goals to Set Requirements

The Connection of Reliability and Customer Expectations

Reliability Goals

Fundamentals of FRACAS (podcast – links to webinar recording)

Root Cause Analysis

The 5 Whys Method of Root Cause Analysis

Fundamentals of Root Cause Analysis (podcast and webinar)

Ideation and Product Development

Reliability in Product and Process Development

2 Versions of Product Life Cycle Phases

Fundamentals of the Cost of Unreliability (podcast and webinar recording)

Fundamentals of Reliability Performance Monitoring (podcast and webinar recording)

Why DMAIC Endures as a Robust Thought Process

What is Design for Six Sigma?

Introduction to the 6 Sigma Design Approach

System Engineering and Reliability

Life Cycle Cost Analysis and Reliability

When the system is the customer – system integration