Course Overview

Our ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) preparation course equips professionals with essential skills in performance evaluation and prediction to enhance product reliability, maintainability, and safety. You'll master the critical competencies needed for the CRE credential, including identifying potential failures, implementing reliability planning and testing, applying risk management strategies, and developing effective maintenance approaches. Over 94% of our students pass the exam on their first attempt.

This comprehensive program covers all domains of the 2025 CRE Body of Knowledge: Reliability Fundamentals, Risk Management, Reliability Planning/Testing/Modeling, and Lifecycle Reliability including design techniques and maintainability. We've designed this course specifically for experienced practitioners working toward the certification, which requires eight years of on-the-job experience (with partial waivers for relevant degrees) including three years in decision-making roles.

Delivered By Jeruel, this course includes detailed exam preparation materials explaining the open-book policy, format, and recertification requirements. Our instructors bring real-world reliability engineering experience to help you not just pass the exam, but apply these critical skills in your daily work improving product and system performance across their entire lifecycle.

Learning Objectives

• Explore how reliability engineering creates value through reduced failures and costs. Understand leaders' key role in building reliable systems that enhance both quality and safety outcomes. See how these three elements work together to deliver products customers can trust.
• Apply project management tools like CPM and Gantt charts to reliability engineering. Balance lifecycle costs against reliability needs. Manage requirements effectively to make better engineering decisions that consider both short-term deadlines and long-term product performance.
• Master risk assessment through multiple methods. Apply qualitative, quantitative, and semi-quantitative techniques to identify threats. Rank risks by impact and calculate their probabilities to make smarter decisions.
• Apply powerful failure analysis tools like FTA, FMEA/FMECA, and common-cause failure analysis to identify weak points and prevent system breakdowns before they happen.
• Design and implement reliability tests tailored to your product's real-world conditions. Master techniques like accelerated life tests, HALT, and ESS/HASS to identify weaknesses before your customers do.
• Apply powerful reliability modeling techniques including block diagrams, Markov analysis, and Monte Carlo simulation. Master both physics-of-failure approaches and prediction methods for systems that can—and cannot—be repaired.
• Master key design techniques that ensure product reliability throughout its lifecycle. Apply validation methods, stress-strength analysis, and Design of Experiments (DOE) to test performance. Implement Design for Reliability (DfR) and Design for X (DFX) approaches to build quality from the start. These techniques won't just fix problems—they'll help you prevent them.
• Choose materials and components wisely using derating techniques and COTS evaluation. Implement parts standardization while applying reliability-centered maintenance to extend equipment life. Your spare parts analysis will ensure you're never caught without critical components when you need them most.
• Create smart maintenance plans that work. Master predictive techniques to catch problems early, fine-tune preventive schedules, analyze breakdowns, and make smart repair-or-replace choices. These strategies help you prevent costly downtime while extending equipment life.