You can use severities to determine how severe the impact of a change on an engineering change order is or can be. 

For example, for high-impact changes, set the severity to "Very high" and for only a small change, set the severity to "Very low". 

You first set up the severities and then you set up the rule sets for these severities. A severity rule set defines how a severity is calculated based on the changes that are made with an engineering change order.

Set up the severities that you can use to:

• Manually define the severity.
• Set up severity rule sets which calculate the severity based on the applied changes. 

Standard procedure

1.	Go to Product engineering > Setup > Engineering change management > Severities.
2.	Click New.
3.	In the Severity field, type a value.
4.	Close the page.

Notes