Handbook of Reliability Engineering and Management

W. Grant Ireson, Clyde F. Coombs Jr., and Richard Y. Moss

McGraw-Hill
2nd Edition
ISBN 978-0070127500

22 December 1995

Pending review.

Reliability-Centered Maintenance

John Moubray

Industrial Press, Inc
2nd Edition
ISBN 978-0831131463

1 January 1997

pending review…

Practical Reliability Engineering

Patrick O’Connor and Andre Kleyner

Wiley
5th Edition
ISBN 978-0470979822 (hardcover)

30 January 2012

This handbook covers everything and it should be on your desk, not tucked away in a bookshelf.

Practical Reliability Engineering

Patrick O’Connor and Andre Kleyner

Wiley
5th Edition
ISBN 978-0470979822 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-0470979815 (paperback)
also available as ebook

30 January 2012

This handbook covers everything and it should be on your desk, not tucked away in a bookshelf.

Reliability Statistics

Robert A. Dovich

American Society for Quality
ISBN 978-0873890861 (paperback)
June 1990

pending review…

Accelerated Testing: Statistical Models, Test Plans, and Data Analysis

Wayne Nelson

John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 978-0471522775 (hard cover)
November 16, 1990

If even considering an accelerated life test (ALT), this is the seminal work on ALT design and analysis.

A professional library marks a serious professional

A good professional library does you and your reliability program good. You can learn from your peers, explore new tools and techniques, and find inspiration.

A professional library also provides a ready reference. Find just the right formula, double check your analysis approach, or list the perfect reference in your report.

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ASQ CRE Recommended Reading

Preparing for the ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer exam? These are the recommended references for you.

Learn and master the references to find answers quickly. Plus, build your professional library covering every element of the CRE body of knowledge.

Maintenance Reliability Recommended Reading

Maintaining equipment and assets is more than just scheduling the recommended lubrication and inspections. From designing for maintainability to developing business processes, mastering maintenance practices is good business.

Learn to optimize you existing maintenance program, minimize costs, and improve your asset uptime. The literature and knowledge in this field continues to grow.

Product Reliability Recommended Reading

Reliability performance starts in the design. Understanding customer requirement, designing for reliability, and delivering robust products that meet customer expectations is a complicated process.

Read how to plan and implement an efficient reliability program. And, refresh the basics and explore advanced techniques, guided by your professional library.

Quality Engineering Recommended Reading

Some define reliability as quality over time. That implies reliability engineers need to master quality engineering tools and techniques. The two engineering fields do overlap, thus having a few quality reference books on you shelf will serve you well.

From understanding customer requirements to monitoring production processes, quality engineering spans the entire product life cycle. Quality engineering includes lean, six sigma, process control, change management, and more.

Reliability Testing Recommended Reading

One of the fun parts of reliability engineering is the opportunity to break stuff. We often test to failure, which is expensive. Thus we want to maximize the value of any reliability testing.

Learn to identify which stresses to apply during testing, which condition profiles to use, and more. Prototype, environmental, life, ongoing, HALT, and other approaches and tools allow us to learn via testing.

Statistics Recommended Reading

You most likely sold your undergrad stats book as soon as you could, glad to see the end of the course. Now you need that knowledge to deal with the variability you see all about your product and process.

Statistics provide the tools to understand the data we collect. It allows us to make comparisons, analyze experiment results, and identify trends or patterns. Statistics have a role to play across the life cycle and it’s a reliability professional that is often also the resident statistician.

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Lesson 14 of 14 Ways to Acquire
Reliability Engineering Knowledge

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We can create new knowledge. Deductive and inductive logic lets us examine our world and learn. For reliability, we are often faced with new situations.

Compare the situation, say, a new failure mechanism, with the failure mechanisms you already know something about. Each similarity and difference provides insights for new knowledge.

We can reason and should. Reliability engineering is a thinking person’s game. Learning to assemble knowledge and use logic helps us to find patterns, discern solutions, or develop innovations. Our ability to reason enables us to continue to grow the world’s knowledge.

Summary

One purpose of formal schooling is to learn how to learn. Reliability engineering has many tools and techniques that apply across a broad range of materials, products, and processes.

Our success as reliability professionals is in part our ability to learn and learn quickly. This paper described 14 ways you can approach the task of learning.

For any given situation you may find one or more of the above approaches useful. For example, you may first recognize the desire to learn about accelerated testing. After some reading you may conduct an experiment. Along the way you are learning.

The value we provide our organization is our knowledge. It is through an ongoing process of learning that we remain valuable.

You’re done with this course.

You know have many ways to learn reliability engineering. Go, learn, do great things. Enjoy what this field has to offer.

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