Telecommunications & Network Hardware Manufacturing worked example

Supplier Component Risk with failure severity rating of 15 score: a worked example

What does the result look like when failure severity rating reaches 15 score? The full calculation is worked below with real intermediate numbers. Use it when supplier component risk in telecommunications and network hardware manufacturing needs a defensible ranking against other telecommunications and network hardware manufacturing risks for the next review.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Failure severity rating: 15 score (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 6)
  • Defect occurrence likelihood: 4 score (unchanged)
  • Detection difficulty rating: 3 score (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

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

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where failure severity rating 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.
  • A figure at this level is achievable when failure severity rating is genuinely sustained, not just peaked for a shift. The score is only comparable when every part is rated on the identical scale by the same reviewers; a high number flags priority but does not by itself quantify probability.

Results at a glance

  • Supplier component risk score: 8.15 score (headline result)
  • Supplier component risk severity score: 15 score
  • Supplier component risk occurrence score: 4 score
  • Supplier component risk detection score: 3 score

Run it with your numbers

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

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.