Vending, Kiosk & Self-Service Equipment worked example

Configuration Complexity with failure severity rating of 15 score: a worked example in vending, kiosk & self-service equipment

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 configuration complexity in vending, kiosk and self-service equipment needs a defensible ranking against other vending, kiosk and self-service equipment risks for the next review.

The inputs for this scenario

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

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Configuration complexity risk score = configuration complexity severity score × configuration complexity occurrence score × configuration complexity detection score) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 8.15 score for configuration complexity risk score, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 15 score for configuration complexity severity score.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 4 score for configuration complexity occurrence score.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 3 score for configuration complexity 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 ordinal — a 4.55 is not literally half as risky as a 9.1 — so it ranks failure modes rather than yielding an absolute risk in dollars.

Results at a glance

  • Configuration complexity risk score: 8.15 score (headline result)
  • Configuration complexity severity score: 15 score
  • Configuration complexity occurrence score: 4 score
  • Configuration complexity detection score: 3 score

Run it with your numbers

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

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.