SRE MontréalSociety of Reliability Engineers · Chapter 6
Technical Areas

Five core domains + one cross-cutting domain

Requirements and standards, reliability management, failure physics, modeling and data, design and test, and emerging digital methods across the lifecycle

01

Dependability Standards, Requirements & Professional Practice

Dependability terminology, reliability and maintainability requirements, assurance, risk, standards and professional practice

02

Reliability Programs, Maintainability & Asset Management

Reliability and maintainability program planning, RCM, FRACAS, condition-based maintenance, asset management and lifecycle decisions

03

Physics of Failure, Failure Analysis & Root Cause

Failure mechanisms, degradation, environmental and usage loads, root-cause analysis, PoF modeling and accelerated testing

04

Reliability Modeling, Statistics & Data Analysis

Probability and distributions, life-data and Weibull analysis, repairable systems, RBDs, Markov models, reliability growth, and field or warranty data

05

Design for Reliability, System Reliability & Test

Reliability requirements and allocation, DfR, FMEA/FMECA, FTA, fault tolerance and redundancy, system safety and hazard analysis with STPA, V&V, qualification and reliability testing

Cross-cutting

Digital Engineering, PHM & Emerging Methods

MBSE, digital twins, PHM, condition monitoring, AI/ML, IoT, and autonomous or software-intensive systems

AcronymsAI = Artificial Intelligence, DfR = Design for Reliability, FMEA = Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, FMECA = Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis, FRACAS = Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System, FTA = Fault Tree Analysis, IoT = Internet of Things, MBSE = Model-Based Systems Engineering, ML = Machine Learning, PHM = Prognostics and Health Management, PoF = Physics of Failure, RAMS = Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety, RBD = Reliability Block Diagram, RCM = Reliability-Centered Maintenance, STPA = System-Theoretic Process Analysis, V&V = Verification and Validation