nedbrud

Nedbrud is a Danish noun meaning breakdown or failure of a system, process, machine, or infrastructure, and in some contexts also a mental or emotional collapse. It denotes a loss of function that disrupts normal operation and typically requires corrective action, repair, or replacement. The term is widely used in technical, industrial, and everyday Danish and can describe sudden malfunctions as well as gradual declines in performance.

It is used across sectors and domains. For example, a computer or IT system may experience a nedbrud, a generator or piece of equipment may suffer a nedbrud, or transport and utility networks may undergo an outage described as nedbrud. In colloquial speech, people may refer to a mental nedbrud when someone experiences a breakdown or severe stress.

Causes of nedbrud include hardware faults, software bugs, maintenance gaps, power disturbances, cyberattacks, human error, or unexpected demand exceeding design capacity. Addressing a nedbrud typically involves diagnosing the fault, repairing or replacing faulty components, restoring power or connectivity, and implementing preventive measures such as redundancy, monitoring, backups, and incident-management procedures. In IT and operations management, nedbrud is tracked as downtime and influenced by service-level agreements and recovery objectives.