Welcome Gerald,
I am fairly new to the SMRP community as well. I attended the SMRP conference last year and found great value in the ability to network with other Reliability Engineers and Organizations. There is a lot of information that is available here to help you prepare for the exam. There are also a number of classes that will help you along the way. I have been attending the Maintenance and Reliability Management course that is put on by Marshall Institute and found it to be very helpful in understanding a lot of the facets to reliability and Reliability Centered Maintenance.
Again, Welcome and good luck.
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James Dalton CMRP, CLSSBB
Reliability Centered Maintenance Lead
Archer Daniels Midland
Southport NC
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