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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Then click to view the book detail page. There you will find a cover image, publication details, plus a review (some are pending being written). You can click through to Amazon to learn more about the book and buy it today.

In addition, you have the chance to add your comments. Please do so. Do you use this book and if so for what? Would you recommend this book and why and to whom?

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.

Invitation to Add to the Recommendations

Take a look and if your favorite reference text is missing, let us know. Add a comment below and we’ll add the work to the recommended list. If you would like to add a short review, that would be most welcome.