Reliability and Risk Division

We are proud to announce that all-new ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer Handbook. 4th edition. is in the warehouse!!

Updated by Karen Hulting and Mary McShane Vaughn

The updated handbook follows the 2025 CRE BOK and incudes:

• New topics Such as project management in reliability engineering, the quality risk assessment. and software/firmware reliability.
• A thorough review of probability and statistics for reliability, dozens Of practical examples to illustrate key concepts.
• Expanded discussions of reliability strategy. defect tracking. environmental. social. and governance (ESG) policies. root cause analysis. lean and Six Sigma methodologies, reliability goals. confidence and tolerance levels. capability artificial data integrity, testing. reliability-centered maintenance. and more
• Updated appendices with new standard normal Student’s t. F, and normal tolerance interval factor tables that include more values.

The team Spent the past 18 months on this significant update to the handbook. Thanks to the engineering dream-team who brought their years of expertise. great writing abilities, and a work ethic to the project:

• David Auda
• Mark Bailey
• Kaitlyn Bellucci
• Daniel Conrad
• Tim Gaens
• Michelle Grasso
• Mindy Hotchkiss
• Fred Hulting
• Michelle Jirak
• Tom Jones. PhD
• Peng Liu
• Mohammad Pourgal