ASQ’s CRE certification program is very comprehensive and an excellent qualification for persons aspiring to become reliability engineers. However, I have a preference for the old syllabus (pre-2018) where topics like hypothesis testing, Mann’s Reversal, La Place, Poisson homogeneous and non-homogeneous techniques were offered. Even the section on Reliability Testing have been restructured and the amount topics reduced. There was more rigor in ‘old’ syllabus compared to the present.
Also, the section on DOE is poorly written by the authors at Quality Council Of Indiana (QCI). It is disjointed without any flow. I would recommend the following textbooks for CRE: 1. Introduction to Reliability and Maintainability Engineering by Ebeling 2. Applied Reliability by Trinidade and Tobias 3. Introduction to DOE by Barrentine
thanks, Ashram – I do agree that the CRE Primer’s latest edition is difficult to read and use. As we started thinking about writing our own reference book, we also realized that we, like you, consider the current BoK’s as not reflecting current best practices very well. Thus, our exploration around creating our own set of guidelines. cheers, Fred
ASQ’s CRE certification program is very comprehensive and an excellent qualification for persons aspiring to become reliability engineers. However, I have a preference for the old syllabus (pre-2018) where topics like hypothesis testing, Mann’s Reversal, La Place, Poisson homogeneous and non-homogeneous techniques were offered. Even the section on Reliability Testing have been restructured and the amount topics reduced. There was more rigor in ‘old’ syllabus compared to the present.
Also, the section on DOE is poorly written by the authors at Quality Council Of Indiana (QCI). It is disjointed without any flow.
I would recommend the following textbooks for CRE:
1. Introduction to Reliability and Maintainability Engineering by Ebeling
2. Applied Reliability by Trinidade and Tobias
3. Introduction to DOE by Barrentine
thanks, Ashram – I do agree that the CRE Primer’s latest edition is difficult to read and use. As we started thinking about writing our own reference book, we also realized that we, like you, consider the current BoK’s as not reflecting current best practices very well. Thus, our exploration around creating our own set of guidelines. cheers, Fred