Benefits of reliability engineering
Interrelationship of safety, quality, and reliability
Reliability engineer leadership responsibilities
Reliability engineer role and responsibilities in the product life cycle
The function of reliability in engineering
Ethics in reliability engineering
Supplier reliability assessments
Performance monitoring
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
Risk management techniques
Types of risk
Fault tree analysis (FTA)
Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA)
Common modes of failure analysis
Hazard analysis
Risk matrix
System safety
Mitigation
Basic statistics
Basic probability concepts
Probability distributions
Probability functions
Sampling plans for statistics and reliability testing
Statistical process control and process capability studies
Confidence and tolerance intervals
Sources and uses of reliable data
Types of data
Data collection methods
Data summary and reporting
Failure analysis methods
Failure reporting, analysis, and corrective action system (FRACAS)
Reliability test strategies
Environmental and conditions of use factors
Failure consequence
Failure criteria
Test environment
Accelerated life tests
Stress screening
Qualification / Demonstration testing
Degradation
Software testing
Reliability block diagrams and models
Physics of failure and failure mechanisms
Failure models
Reliability prediction methods
Design prototyping
Design evaluation techniques
Stress-strength analysis
Design of experiments
Reliability optimization
Human factors
Design for X
Design for Reliability
Materials and components selection techniques
Parts standardization and system simplification
Maintenance strategies
Preventive maintenance analysis
Corrective maintenance analysis