Ammunition Components & Ballistics Manufacturing worked example

Compliance Documentation Risk Score with documentation failure impact severity of 3.5 score: a worked example

Here is what the math looks like when conditions slip. We hold every other input steady and drop documentation failure impact severity to 3.5 score, then walk the calculation through step by step. Score documentation risk from manufacturing impact severity, occurrence likelihood, and detection strength for a lot or order.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Documentation failure impact severity: 3.5 score (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 7)
  • Documentation issue occurrence likelihood: 4 score (held at the documented default)
  • Detection or control weakness score: 3 score (held at the documented default)

Working through the calculation

  • The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Lot-level planning risk score = documentation impact severity × occurrence likelihood × detection or control weakness score.
  • Lot-level planning risk score works out to 3.55 risk score at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
  • Manufacturing impact severity works out to 3.5 score at these inputs.
  • Expected occurrence score works out to 4 score at these inputs.
  • Detection or control score works out to 3 score at these inputs.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where documentation failure impact severity sits at 7 score and the headline result is 4.95 risk score, this scenario comes in 28.28% below the baseline at 3.55 risk score.
  • The practical read: the gap between this scenario and the baseline is entirely attributable to documentation failure impact severity, so recovering it is worth quantifying in dollars before considering equipment or staffing changes. Like any RPN, it is only as good as the scoring scale behind it; identical scores can hide very different real exposures, so use it to rank, not to set absolute pass/fail thresholds.

Results at a glance

  • Lot-level planning risk score: 3.55 risk score (headline result)
  • Manufacturing impact severity: 3.5 score
  • Expected occurrence score: 4 score
  • Detection or control score: 3 score

Run it with your numbers

  • To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Compliance Documentation Risk Score calculator, set documentation failure impact severity to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.