A life-critical system or safety-critical system is a system whose failure or malfunction may result in death or serious injury. Risks of this sort are usually handled with safety engineering.
Software engineering for life-critical systems is particularly difficult, but the avionics industry has succeeded in producing standard methods for producing life-critical avionics software. This is sometimes done using programmable logic controllers.
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Examples of life-critical systems
Infrastructure
Medicine
Nuclear engineering
Recreation
Transportation
Automotive
Aviation
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