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title: "Set up engineering change severities"
slug: "set-up-engineering-change-severities"
tags: ["Task", "PE", "Product Engineering"]
updated: 2026-03-20T09:22:34Z
published: 2026-03-20T17:46:03Z
canonical: "docs.staedean.com/set-up-engineering-change-severities"
---

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# Set up engineering change severities

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

**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.

### Steps

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.

> [!NOTE]
> **Notes**
> 
> You can use the **Up** and **Down** buttons to define the display sequence of the severities.