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For example:</p> <div class="row p-4"> <div class="col-md-4"> <div class="card text-center"> <div class="cardImg"><img class="card-img-top img-fluid" src="https://cairs.hk/assets/files/main/images/aboutImg01icon.png" alt="Aircraft failure" title="Aircraft failure" caption="false" width="280" height="289" /></div> <div class="card-body"> <p class="card-textAll">Aircraft failure</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <div class="card text-center"> <div class="cardImg"><img class="card-img-top img-fluid" src="https://cairs.hk/assets/files/main/images/aboutImg02icon.png" alt="Escalator failure" title="Escalator failure" caption="false" width="280" height="289" /></div> <div class="card-body"> <p class="card-textAll">Escalator failure</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <div class="card text-center"> <div class="cardImg"><img class="card-img-top img-fluid" src="https://cairs.hk/assets/files/main/images/aboutImg03icon.png" alt="Elevator failure" title="Elevator failure" caption="false" width="280" height="289" /></div> <div class="card-body"> <p class="card-textAll">Elevator failure</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="boxText d-flex orangeBgColor align-items-center flexSmColumn mb-2"><img src="https://cairs.hk/assets/files/main/images/icon01.jpg" caption="false" width="100" height="93" /> <h6 class="whiteFont h1 p-4 text-justify"><span style="font-size: 14px;">WHY ARE THERE STILL SO MANY REALIBAILITY AND SAFETY PROBLEMS</span></h6> </div> <div class="boxText d-flex grayDeepBgColor align-items-center flexSmColumn mb-2"><img src="https://cairs.hk/assets/files/main/images/icon02.jpg" caption="false" width="100" height="93" /> <div class="p-4"> <h6 class="whiteFont text-justify"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Electronics degrade due to complex electronics ageing, latent software faults, and the interactions between the two.</span></h6> <h6 class="whiteFont text-justify"><span style="font-size: 14px;">IEEE reported electronic system failures are inevitable because of the current methods to assess reliability and safety.</span></h6> </div> </div> <div class="boxText d-flex yellowBgColor align-items-center flexSmColumn mb-2"><img src="https://cairs.hk/assets/files/main/images/icon03.jpg" caption="false" width="100" height="93" /> <div class="p-4"> <h6 class="whiteFont text-justify"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Understanding reliability and safety is necessary but not sufficient to manage these systems.</span></h6> <h6 class="whiteFont text-justify"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Current best practices in industry, even the design and test effort, could NOT enable 100% operational reliability and safety due to variability in</span></h6> <ul class="whiteFont"> <ul class="whiteFont"> <li><span style="font-size: 14px;">Environment</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 14px;">Usage</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 14px;">Failure mechanisms (hardware-software)</span></li> </ul> </ul> </div> </div> <p class="h5 mt-4">CAiRS 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