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by Fred Schenkelberg 7 Comments

Annual CRE Exam References Survey Results

Annual CRE Exam References Survey Results

This is the third annual survey to find what you recommend for those preparing for the ASQ CRE exam.

As a reliability engineer, you may have wondered which references are the most useful. Or as an accomplished CRE you may have been asked for recommendations. Either way, thanks for contributing to the:

Annual ASQ CRE Exam Recommended References Survey


2017 Survey Results and Discussion

The Typeform powered survey open in December 2016 enjoyed 30 unique visits and while not everyone completed the survey, we did get many responses. Average response time was 3 minutes and 20 seconds, which was twice as long as expected. Thanks for putting some thought into your responses.

You can view the results as produced by Typeform and the collected details here. Below is a summary and some comments.

Unnecessary to Essential Scoring

The first set of questions as you to rank five references as from 1. Unnecessary to 5. Essential. In short which references do you plan to take with you (or recommend) for the exam.

The CRE Primer from the Quality Council of Indiana and The Certified Reliability Handbook, 2nd Ed by Benbow & Broome with an 4.10 and 4.07 average score, respectively top the list of recommended references.

A good statistics textbook and the Practical Reliability Engineering by O’Connor and Kleyner with average scores of 3.93 and 3.72, respectively, are our collective third and fourth recommendations.

Practical Relaibility Engineering dropped from the top recommendation in 2015 to fourth.

Juran’s Quality Handbook with an average score of 3.00 was not seen as essential.

 

Score     Reference

4.10       CRE Primer

4.07        The Certified Reliability Engineer Handbook

3.93        a  good statistics textbook

3.72        Practical Reliability Engineering

3.00        Juran’s Quality Handbook

 

Recommendations to Drop

The next question asked which of the five references should be dropped from the list. In short, which would you not recommend?

Just under half of the respondents listed a title to drop. In order of frequency they are:

55%   Juran’s Quality Handbook

17%     none

17%     The Certified Reliability Engineer Handbook

6%      A good statistics book

6%      Practical Reliability Engineering

One person listed Reliability Engineering 3nd by Elsayed (not on list, so this might be a recommendation)

If there is a clear consensus to add a reference we’ll drop Juran’s from the list. The recommendations seem to suggest if you have a copy, that is a great, if not, don’t worry about it.

Recommendations to Add

This question enjoy responses, sometimes multiple responses, by nearly two thirds of respondents. We do like our references. Here are the recommended additions to the reference list in order of frequency of mention:

16%    Nothing

16%    CRE Primer

11%     CRE Handbook by Benbow & Broome [ed. full title is The Certified Reliability Engineer Handbook, 2nd edition – now in it’s 3rd edition ]

And one person each recommended adding the following:

Practical Engineering, Process, and Reliability Statistics by Durivage

Reliability Engineering Handbook, v 1 & 2, by Dimitri

Reliability Statistics by Dovich

Introduction to Reliability and Maintainability Engineering by Charles E. Ebeling

Reliability Engineering Handbook by Dodson

Reliability Handbook by Ebeling

Juran’s Quality Handbook

Reliability Toolkit by RAC

Practical Statistical Tools for the Reliability Engineer by RAC

 

 

One person recommended a discussion forum – which the LinkedIn Group CRE Preparation group may serve this function.

Based on the survey we will not add anything to the recommended list.

Thanks to all that participated in the survey.

2015 Survey Results and Discussion

The Typeform powered survey open in December 2015 enjoyed 78 unique visits and while not everyone completed the survey, we did get many responses. Average response time was 2 minutes and 47 seconds, which was twice as long as expected. Thanks for putting some thought into your responses.

Unnecessary to Essential Scoring

The first set of questions as you to rank five references as from 1. Unnecessary to 5. Essential. In short which references do you plan to take with you (or recommend) for the exam.

The CRE Primer from the Quality Council of Indiana and Practical Reliability Engineering by O’Conor & Kleyner with an 4.08 and 4.09 average score, respectively top the list or recommended references.

Practical Reliability Engineering ResultsQCI CRE Primer Results

A good statistics textbook and the Handbook of Reliability Engineering and Management with average scores of 3.50 and 3.36, respectively, are our collective third and fourth recommendations.a good Stats book Handbook of Reliability Engineering and Management

Juran’s Quality Handbook with an average score of 2.83 was not seen as essential.

Juran's Quality Handbook

 

Score     Reference

4.09       Practical Reliability Engineering

4.08       CRE Primer

3.50        a  good statistics textbook

3.36        Handbook of Reliability Engineering and Management

2.83        Juran’s Quality Handbook

 

Recommendations to Drop

The next question asked which of the five references should be dropped from the list. In short, which would you not recommend?

Just under half of the respondents listed a title to drop. In order of frequency they are:

17%   Handbook of Reliability Engineering and Management

8%     none

8%     CRE Primer

4%      A good statistics book

4%      Applied Reliability by Tobias (not on list, so this might be a recommendation)

In general, it appears the older text, 2nd edition published in 1996, the Handbook of Reliability Engineering and Management is not highly recommended. Reluctantly, I’ll drop it from the list. It was my first general book on reliability engineering and I knew and worked with one of the authors (Dick Moss).

Recommendations to Add

This question enjoy responses, sometimes multiple responses, by nearly two thirds of respondents. We do like our references. Here are the recommended additions to the reference list in order of frequency of mention:

12%     CRE Handbook by Benbow & Broome [ed. full title is The Certified Reliability Engineer Handbook, 2nd edition]

8%       Reliability Statistics by Dovich

And one person each recommended adding the following:

Practical Engineering, Process, and Reliability Statistics by Durivage

Reliability Engineering Handbook, v 1 & 2, by Dimitri

Weibull [ed. maybe? The New Weibull Analysis Handbook by Abernathy]

Some book on PoF [ed. any recommendations here?]

Applied Reliability by Tobias and Trindade

Design for Reliability by Crowe & Feinberg

How to Analyze Reliability Data by Nelson

One person commented that the list was good and recommended using one book’s index for all the references. Just add the other book’s page numbers for each index listing in pencil.

Based on the survey we will add The Certified Reliability Engineer Handbook, 2nd edition to the recommended list.

Thanks to all that participated in the survey.

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Comments

  1. Rama Joga N N Kumar VEPA says

    November 25, 2015 at 2:04 AM

    Want CRE Primer. Is it possible to share that book??

    Reply
    • Fred Schenkelberg says

      November 25, 2015 at 4:06 AM

      Sorry I have a copy that I’ll be using to teach a CRE Preparation class starting in January. The book is available from the Quality Council of Indiana. You may want to post your request to borrow a copy on the Linkedin group CRE Preparation, you may be able to find a copy from someone nearby.

      Reply
  2. Tim Gaens says

    December 24, 2015 at 4:01 AM

    Hi Fred,

    I also like “Reliability Statistics” from Robert A. Dovich
    It is a small book, but very nice when explaining topics to other people.

    Reply
    • Tim Gaens says

      December 24, 2015 at 4:02 AM

      And I overlooked it in the “Product Reliability” section

      Reply
      • Fred Schenkelberg says

        December 24, 2015 at 7:33 AM

        Hi Tim, it is a nice book, yet tends to focus on MTBF a bit too much for my taste. cheers, Fred

        Reply
  3. John Paschkewitz says

    March 26, 2016 at 10:38 AM

    I agree with top two choices, CRE Primer and Practical Reliability Engineering (new 5th edition) and used them when taking CRE exam. CRE Primer practice exams and instructor guide are very helpful for preparation. I have the CRE Handbook, but have not used it for exam, but it is a nice concise reference.
    I missed your survey due to access problems for Ascendo Reliability site. Thank you.

    Reply
    • Fred Schenkelberg says

      March 26, 2016 at 4:10 PM

      Thanks for the input John, I’ll add it to the survey. And when I get home from this trip I’ll sort out your access to the site. In the mean time if there’s anything you’re seeking let me know.

      Cheers,

      Fred

      Reply

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