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Engineers seek to design devices, machines and systems and in such a way as to mitigate or preferably avoid the effects of error, whether unintentional or not.

Such errors in a system can be latent design errors that may go unnoticed for years, until the right set of circumstances arises that cause them to become active.

Other errors in engineered systems can arise due to human error, which includes cognitive bias.

Human factors engineering is often applied to designs in an attempt to minimize this type of error by making systems more forgiving or error-tolerant.