Space Payload & Avionics Manufacturing worked example

Documentation Hours with documentation hours severity score of 15 score: a worked example in space payload & avionics manufacturing

Push documentation hours severity score up to 15 score and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. Use it when documentation hours in space payload and avionics manufacturing needs a defensible ranking against other space payload and avionics manufacturing risks for the next review.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Documentation hours severity score: 15 score (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 6)
  • Documentation hours occurrence score: 4 score (unchanged)
  • Documentation hours detection score: 3 score (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

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

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where documentation hours severity score 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 computes a documentation risk priority number by combining severity, occurrence, and detection scores for a given documentation gap or process. 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

  • Documentation hours risk score: 8.15 score (headline result)
  • Documentation hours severity score: 15 score
  • Documentation hours occurrence score: 4 score
  • Documentation hours detection score: 3 score

Run it with your numbers

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

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.