The Certified Reliability Engineer Handbook, Second Edition

The reliability engineer is a professional who understands the principles of performance evaluation and prediction to improve product/systems safety, reliability and maintainability. The structure of this book is based on that of the Body of Knowledge specified by ASQ for the Certified Reliability Engineer, which includes design review and control; prediction, estimation, and apportionment methodology; failure mode effects and analysis; the planning, operation and analysis of reliability testing and field failures, including mathematical modeling; understanding human factors in reliability; and the ability to develop and administer reliability information systems for failure analysis, design and performance improvement and reliability program management over the entire product life cycle.

Study questions have been provided on an accompanying CD-ROM, listed by Parts (I VII) of the Body of Knowledge. A simulated exam approximately half the size of the actual exam, with questions distributed (Parts I VII) approximately proportional to the information contained in the Body of Knowledge, has also been provided.

Об авторе (2012)

Donald W. Benbow is principal at Iowa Quality Systems. For more than 25 years, he has conducted industrial statistics courses for employees of approximately 100 companies, both face-to-face and through ICN, Iowa s closed-circuit fiber optics TV network. Previously, he taught mathematics, statistics, freshman engineering, quality assurance, and computer science courses at Marshalltown Community College. He holds a BS in mathematics from Iowa State University and an MS in mathematics from Michigan State University. He is co-author of The Certified Quality Technician Handbook and The Certified Six Sigma Black Belt Handbook, Second Edition, both available from ASQ Quality Press. He is an ASQ Certified Quality Auditor (CQA), Certified Quality Technician (CQT), Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), and Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE).

Hugh W. Broome is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Technology at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City Tennessee, teaching upper division courses in electronics, circuit analysis, and electronic communications. Previously, Broome worked as an engineer on the production of the Hawk and Sparrow missile systems for Raytheon Company. He has also trained and consulted in reliability and quality at Jet Propulsion Labs (JPL/NASA), Ames Research (NASA), IBM, Abbott Labs, ATT (Western Electric Co.), the U.S. Army, Bose Corp., Applied Materials, Snap-On Tools, Sprague Electric Phillips (Magnavox), SCI Corporation, and many others. He holds a BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tennessee, an MA degree in mathematics from East Tennessee State University, and an MS degree in reliability engineering from the University of Arizona. Broome is a Senior member of ASQ. He served as a vice chair of the ASQ Reliability Division. He has been a member of the Technical Council and member of the Education Advisory Board for ASQ, a regional councilor for the Reliability Division and a past president of the local ASQ section. He is an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) and Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE).

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