Robotic End-of-Arm Tooling worked example

Robot Compatibility Risk with severity if the eoat fails to mate with the robot flange of 15 score: a worked example

Push severity if the eoat fails to mate with the robot flange up to 15 score and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. Use it when robot compatibility risk in robotic end-of-arm tooling needs a defensible ranking against other robotic end-of-arm tooling risks for the next review.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Severity if the EOAT fails to mate with the robot flange: 15 score (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 6)
  • Likelihood of a compatibility mismatch occurring: 4 score (unchanged)
  • Chance the mismatch is caught before commissioning: 3 score (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Robot compatibility risk score = robot compatibility risk severity score × robot compatibility risk occurrence score × robot compatibility risk detection score) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 8.15 score for robot compatibility risk score, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 15 score for robot compatibility risk severity score.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 4 score for robot compatibility risk occurrence score.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 3 score for robot compatibility risk detection score.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where severity if the eoat fails to mate with the robot flange sits at 6 score and the headline result is 4.55 score, this scenario comes in 79.12% above the baseline at 8.15 score.
  • It multiplies severity, occurrence and detection scores into a single Robot Compatibility Risk RPN for one EOAT-to-robot failure mode. The value of this scenario is the size of the gap it exposes: that gap, priced out over a year, is the budget you can justify spending to close it.

Results at a glance

  • Robot compatibility risk score: 8.15 score (headline result)
  • Robot compatibility risk severity score: 15 score
  • Robot compatibility risk occurrence score: 4 score
  • Robot compatibility risk detection score: 3 score

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Robot Compatibility Risk calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.