An engineering change has an impact on operations and products. For each engineering change order, you can define the severity of the impact.
You can use severities to determine how severe the impact of a change is or can be based on the type of changes. So, appropriate measures can be taken to implement the changes as smoothly as possible.
In the Product engineering parameters, you define how the severity of an engineering change order is determined:
Manually: Set the severity of an engineering change order manually. You can choose from a list of self-defined severities.
Calculate: You can click Calculate to determine the severity of an engineering change order. Severity rule sets, with predefined checks on changes, are applied to determine the severity.
Calculate automatically: When you submit an engineering change order to the workflow, the severity rule sets, with predefined checks on changes, are applied automatically to determine the severity.