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Design

Risk Priority Number (RPN)


• Risk Priority Number is the product of
Severity (S), Occurrence (O) and Detection
(D) ranking
• This is a measure of design risk
• This value should be used to rank order the
concerns in design (Pareto)
• RPN will be between 1 and 1000
• In general, regardless of RPN, special
attention when Severity is high
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