Risk Priority Number

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An index used in FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis) to prioritize possible failure conditions, calculated as the product of Severity x Occurrence x Detection Difficulty. If Severity, Probability of Occurrence and Detection difficulty are each evaluated on a 1-10 scale, then the Risk Priority Number can range from 1 to 1000.

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