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Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE)

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  • 6 Month
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Empower yourself to elevate system reliability and operational excellence with this in-depth Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) preparation course. Crafted for professionals poised to lead reliability initiatives, the program equips you with practical expertise and targeted exam preparation to master the essential tools and methodologies that enhance asset performance, minimize downtime, and support organizational objectives.

Ideal for reliability engineers, maintenance specialists, and quality professionals, this course will enable you to:

  • Implement core reliability engineering principles across complex systems
  • Conduct thorough failure mode and root cause analyses
  • Develop and sustain reliability programs aligned with strategic business goals
  • Prepare effectively for the ASQ CRE certification exam with focused study materials.

Gain insights from seasoned industry experts through applied examples and structured instruction, empowering you to drive reliability improvements and make a lasting impact in your organization.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for professionals who are responsible for or aspire to take ownership of reliability engineering functions and initiatives. It is especially suited for:

  • Reliability engineers, Reliability Supervisors and Managers
  • Maintenance supervisors and managers seeking formal certification
  • Quality professionals expanding into reliability roles
  • Project and asset managers involved in uptime and lifecycle optimization
  • Engineers focused on failure analysis and risk mitigation
  • Professionals preparing for the ASQ CRE certification with a need for practical, structured learning

If you are committed to advancing reliability practices and driving operational excellence through data-driven decision making, this course is for you.

What You'll Learn

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Apply reliability engineering concepts and techniques across industries
  • Perform reliability testing, life data analysis, and maintainability assessments
  • Utilize failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) and root cause analysis (RCA) effectively
  • Design reliability programs including preventive and predictive maintenance
  • Understand and apply risk management and decision analysis tools
  • Prepare confidently for the ASQ CRE exam with targeted practice and review
  • Lead cross-functional teams to improve system reliability and availability
  • Leverage reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) and other advanced methodologies

This course combines rigorous academic content with practical application to prepare you not
only to pass the exam but to excel as a reliability leader.

Course Outline

Reliability Fundamentals
  • Leadership Foundations
    • Benefits of reliability engineering
    • Interrelationship of safety, quality, and reliability
    • Reliability engineer leadership responsibilities
    • Reliability engineer role and responsibilities in the product life cycle
    • Function of reliability in engineering
    • Ethics in reliability engineering
    • Supplier reliability assessments
    • Performance monitoring
  • Reliability Foundations
    • Basic reliability terminology
    • Drivers of reliability requirements and targets
    • Corrective and preventive action (CAPA)
    • Root cause analysis
    • Product life-cycle engineering stages
    • Economics of product maintainability and availability
    • Cost of poor reliability
    • Quality triangle
    • Six Sigma methodologies
    • Systems engineering and integration
  • Identification
    • Risk management techniques
    • Types of risk
  • Analysis
    • Fault tree analysis (FTA)
    • Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA)
    • Common mode failure analysis
    • Hazard analysis
    • Risk matrix
    • System safety
  • Mitigation
  • Basic Concepts
    • Basic statistics
    • Basic probability concepts
    • Probability distributions
    • Probability functions
    • Sampling plans for statistics and reliability testing
    • Statistical process control (SPC) and process capability studies (Cp, Cpk)
    • Confidence and tolerance intervals
  • Data Management
    • Sources and uses of reliability data
    • Types of data
    • Data collection methods
    • Data summary and reporting
    • Failure analysis methods
    • Failure reporting, analysis, and corrective action system (FRACAS)
  • . Planning
    • Reliability test strategies
    • Environmental and conditions of use factors
    • Failure consequence
    • Failure criteria
    • Test environment
  • . Testing
    • Accelerated life tests
    • Stress screening
    • Qualification/Demonstration testing
    • Degradation (wear-to-failure) testing
    • Software testing
  •  Modeling 
    • Reliability block diagrams and models
    • Physics of failure and failure mechanisms
    • Failure models
    • Reliability prediction methods
    • Design prototyping
  • Reliability Design Techniques
    • Design evaluation techniques (validation and verification)
    • Stress-strength analysis
    • Design of experiments (DOE)
    • Reliability optimization
    • Human factors
    • Design for X (DFX)
    • Design for Reliability (DfR)
  • Parts and Systems Development
    • Materials and components selection techniques
    • Parts standardization and system simplification
  • Maintainability
    • Maintenance strategies
    • Preventive maintenance (PM) analysis
    • Corrective maintenance analysis
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Course Overview

Empower yourself to elevate system reliability and operational excellence with this in-depth Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) preparation course. Crafted for professionals poised to lead reliability initiatives, the program equips you with practical expertise and targeted exam preparation to master the essential tools and methodologies that enhance asset performance, minimize downtime, and support organizational objectives.

Ideal for reliability engineers, maintenance specialists, and quality professionals, this course will enable you to:

  • Implement core reliability engineering principles across complex systems
  • Conduct thorough failure mode and root cause analyses
  • Develop and sustain reliability programs aligned with strategic business goals
  • Prepare effectively for the ASQ CRE certification exam with focused study materials.

Gain insights from seasoned industry experts through applied examples and structured instruction, empowering you to drive reliability improvements and make a lasting impact in your organization.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for professionals who are responsible for or aspire to take ownership of reliability engineering functions and initiatives. It is especially suited for:

  • Reliability engineers, Reliability Supervisors and Managers
  • Maintenance supervisors and managers seeking formal certification
  • Quality professionals expanding into reliability roles
  • Project and asset managers involved in uptime and lifecycle optimization
  • Engineers focused on failure analysis and risk mitigation
  • Professionals preparing for the ASQ CRE certification with a need for practical, structured learning

If you are committed to advancing reliability practices and driving operational excellence through data-driven decision making, this course is for you.

What You'll Learn

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Apply reliability engineering concepts and techniques across industries
  • Perform reliability testing, life data analysis, and maintainability assessments
  • Utilize failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) and root cause analysis (RCA) effectively
  • Design reliability programs including preventive and predictive maintenance
  • Understand and apply risk management and decision analysis tools
  • Prepare confidently for the ASQ CRE exam with targeted practice and review
  • Lead cross-functional teams to improve system reliability and availability
  • Leverage reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) and other advanced methodologies

This course combines rigorous academic content with practical application to prepare you not
only to pass the exam but to excel as a reliability leader.

Course Outline

Reliability Fundamentals
  • Leadership Foundations
    • Benefits of reliability engineering
    • Interrelationship of safety, quality, and reliability
    • Reliability engineer leadership responsibilities
    • Reliability engineer role and responsibilities in the product life cycle
    • Function of reliability in engineering
    • Ethics in reliability engineering
    • Supplier reliability assessments
    • Performance monitoring
  • Reliability Foundations
    • Basic reliability terminology
    • Drivers of reliability requirements and targets
    • Corrective and preventive action (CAPA)
    • Root cause analysis
    • Product life-cycle engineering stages
    • Economics of product maintainability and availability
    • Cost of poor reliability
    • Quality triangle
    • Six Sigma methodologies
    • Systems engineering and integration
  • Identification
    • Risk management techniques
    • Types of risk
  • Analysis
    • Fault tree analysis (FTA)
    • Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA)
    • Common mode failure analysis
    • Hazard analysis
    • Risk matrix
    • System safety
  • Mitigation
  • Basic Concepts
    • Basic statistics
    • Basic probability concepts
    • Probability distributions
    • Probability functions
    • Sampling plans for statistics and reliability testing
    • Statistical process control (SPC) and process capability studies (Cp, Cpk)
    • Confidence and tolerance intervals
  • Data Management
    • Sources and uses of reliability data
    • Types of data
    • Data collection methods
    • Data summary and reporting
    • Failure analysis methods
    • Failure reporting, analysis, and corrective action system (FRACAS)
  • . Planning
    • Reliability test strategies
    • Environmental and conditions of use factors
    • Failure consequence
    • Failure criteria
    • Test environment
  • . Testing
    • Accelerated life tests
    • Stress screening
    • Qualification/Demonstration testing
    • Degradation (wear-to-failure) testing
    • Software testing
  •  Modeling 
    • Reliability block diagrams and models
    • Physics of failure and failure mechanisms
    • Failure models
    • Reliability prediction methods
    • Design prototyping
  • Reliability Design Techniques
    • Design evaluation techniques (validation and verification)
    • Stress-strength analysis
    • Design of experiments (DOE)
    • Reliability optimization
    • Human factors
    • Design for X (DFX)
    • Design for Reliability (DfR)
  • Parts and Systems Development
    • Materials and components selection techniques
    • Parts standardization and system simplification
  • Maintainability
    • Maintenance strategies
    • Preventive maintenance (PM) analysis
    • Corrective maintenance analysis
View More

$599.00

  • Course Duration:
  • 6 Month
  • Available Schedules:
  • Available Schedules:
Request Date & Location
Download Brochure

Note: If a group of 3 or more candidates is interested in this training course—online or onsite—we’re happy to add a new session to fit your needs. Please share recommended dates, delivery format, and any topics or industry focus you’d like emphasized. If you have a tentative headcount or constraints, include those so we can plan accordingly.

Download Brochure

Note: if you have a group of 3 or more candidates interested in this training course online or onsite, we can include a new session to accommodate your training needs – please send us your recommendation

This course includes:

Certificate of completion
Expert Instructor Support
Exam Preparation Materials
Interactive Quizzes
Mobile-Friendly Access
Real-World Case Studies

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