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Failures are sometimes named according to (i) the main cause of the failure, such as corrosion failure, fatigue failure, aging failure, calibration failure, systematic failure, and so forth, (ii) the type of technology that fails, such as mechanical failure, electrical failure, interface failure, and software bug, and (iii) the life cycle phase in which the failure cause originates, such as design failure, manufacturing failure, and maintenance failure.

When using this type of labeling, we should remember that the failure description does not tell how the failure is manifested, that is, which failure mode that occurs. The same failure mode may occur due to many different failure causes.