Failure
Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success.
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Description
Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to fracture of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of forensic engineering.
Quality assurance
Quality assurance seeks to prevent failure by preventing the mistakes that lead to failure.
Quality control
Quality control is a process by which entities review the quality of all factors involved in production, in order to prevent mistakes (and take other measures to improve quality).
Software failure
Software failure can lead to deadly failure.
Example:
Therac-25 was a radiation therapy machine which was involved in at least six accidents between 1985 and 1987, in which patients were given massive overdoses of radiation.
See also
External links
- Failure @ Wikipedia
