CMMS, EAM & Spare Parts Management worked example
Work Order Aging Risk with asset and safety impact of aged work orders of 18 score: a worked example
What does the result look like when asset and safety impact of aged work orders reaches 18 score? The full calculation is worked below with real intermediate numbers. a maintenance or asset-management team needs to prioritize overdue work, escalation rules, supervisor reviews, and backlog reduction plans for a aged work order review
The inputs for this scenario
- Asset and safety impact of aged work orders: 18 score (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 7)
- Likelihood work orders exceed the age limit: 6 score (unchanged)
- Weakness of escalation and review controls: 5 score (unchanged)
Working through the calculation
- Applying the documented formula (Work Order Aging Risk risk score = asset and safety impact of aged work × likelihood work orders exceed age limit × weakness of escalation and review controls) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
- At this operating point the engine returns 10.55 score for work order aging risk risk score, the number this scenario is built around.
- At this operating point the engine returns 18 score for asset and safety impact of aged work.
- At this operating point the engine returns 6 score for likelihood work orders exceed age limit.
- At this operating point the engine returns 5 score for weakness of escalation and review controls.
How this compares with the baseline
- Against the tool's baseline example, where asset and safety impact of aged work orders sits at 7 score and the headline result is 6.15 score, this scenario comes in 71.54% above the baseline at 10.55 score.
- A figure at this level is achievable when asset and safety impact of aged work orders is genuinely sustained, not just peaked for a shift. The multiplicative score is only meaningful relative to other items scored on the identical scale — a number in isolation tells you little, and inconsistent scaling between raters breaks comparability.
Results at a glance
- Work Order Aging Risk risk score: 10.55 score (headline result)
- asset and safety impact of aged work: 18 score
- likelihood work orders exceed age limit: 6 score
- weakness of escalation and review controls: 5 score
Run it with your numbers
- Every input above is editable in the live Work Order Aging Risk calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.
Last reviewed 2026-05-12.