Environmental Compliance Management Solutions

ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE WEB SEMINAR SERIES Part 1 - VIEW RECORDED WEBSEMINAR Addressing Global Compliance: Learn how to meet diverse Environmental Regulations Learn how to develop and execute a best practice environmental compliance strategy that addresses regulations and their impact throughout the supply chain. Peter Lachapelle of IHS, Ed Sperling of Electronic News, David Mercuro of Thermo Electron, NITON Analyzers, and Greg Monty of Underwriter’s Laboratories discuss the critical decision making and traceability factors that will help you successfully meet a wide range of global environmental regulations. Part 2 - VIEW RECORDED WEBSEMINAR Addressing Global Compliance: Due Diligence for Environmental Compliance Increasingly restrictive environmental policies are impacting electronics companies around the world. In this complimentary Webinar, Scott Wilson of IHS, Jean-Phillipe Brisson of Allen & Overy, Steve Andrews of DTI and Ed Sperling of Electronic News will present a legal discussion on reports and records required to demonstrate due diligence. Part 3 - VIEW RECORDED WEBSEMINAR  Ensuring Environmental Compliance: Case Studies and Supply Chain Collaboration Moderated by Jim Brown of the Aberdeen Group, this event will focus on industry key findings and best practices for environmental compliance as related to Mark Frimann of Texas Instruments and David Williams of BAE Systems. Discussion will include the state of the industry in regards to environmental compliance, how compliance regulations are still important to companies exempt by current regulations, and the direct experience of Texas Instrument’s conversion to environmental compliance. See what you’ve missed and catch up by viewing recorded webseminars for Part 1 and 2.

Global environmental regulations specific to the production and disposal of electronics present a host of information challenges to manufacturers, distributors and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Regulations include directives from the European Union, Japan and other countries, such as:

• Restriction of Hazardous Substance (RoHS), which restricts use of hazardous substances in electrical and electronic components
• Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), which deals with the recycling of electronic and electrical equipment

RoHS restricts the use of lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium VI, PBB and PBDE.  Each and every component within a piece of electrical equipment must meet the standard, or the entire finished product fails. WEEE assigns electronics manufacturers the responsibility of collecting, recycling and recovering all types of electrical products, equipment and components.

IHS offers companies a complete solution for responding to and complying with RoHS, WEEE and other environmental regulations. The Environmental Compliance solution from IHS combines state-the-art software tools, expert consulting services, comprehensive reference data and ongoing access to critical environmental compliance information.

Tools and Reference Data

Compliance with new environmental regulations such as RoHS and WEEE requires comprehensive information about electronic components. IHS provides the tools and reference information sources companies need to ensure compliance, including:

• Easy-to-use, online application
• Content services providing crucial compliance data that is tailored to each client’s unique requirements
• Extensive collection of reference data covering over 12 million electronic parts
• Content management capabilities that facilitate gathering, maintaining and easily accessing information about suppliers, to ensure that all parts and materials included in the BOM are RoHS and WEEE compliant
• Reporting functionality that enables users to meet material disclosure and related environmental reporting requirements

With the IHS Environmental Compliance solution, engineers are empowered to design products using RoHS and WEEE compliant parts and materials. Users can quickly locate part information amid the confusion of changing part numbers or newly compliant parts that retain the same part number. Once a part is located, engineers can view detailed data about the part to determine whether it complies with applicable regulations. If a part is not RoHS and WEEE compliant, then engineers can leverage IHS tools to uncover substitutable parts that are compliant.

Once a compliant part is identified, engineers must evaluate the manufacturability of that part. Since they are made of different materials, newly compliant parts typically have different tolerances than the previously used part. Adjustments to manufacturing processes and equipment may be required before a newly compliant part can be used in production. IHS tools, information and services help companies address the manufacturability challenges associated with introducing newly compliant parts into production.

Environmental regulations apply not only to parts directly used in production, but to maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) items as well. The IHS HAZMAT solution addresses compliance of MRO items, allowing customers to maintain existing equipment longer.

IHS Solution Services

Combine IHS tools and information with expert services for a complete solution to your regulatory challenges. IHS gathers, validates and standardizes compliance data based on your unique requirements. We can help you integrate IHS information with enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise asset management (EAM) systems and other internal systems.

With Environmental Compliance Solutions Services from IHS, you can reduce time you it takes to find the information you need to comply with RoHS, WEEE and other environmental regulations. IHS delivers tools to meet the compliance challenges of product development, sourcing and procurement, and manufacturing. The IHS solution helps companies:

• Avoid penalties and fines for noncompliance
• Meet RoHS and WEEE regulatory guidelines in a shorter timeframe
• Stay informed about new and changing regulations
• Adjust more quickly to new regulations from customers or regional governing bodies
• Monitor suppliers and manage compliance information from suppliers
• Establish ongoing compliance tracking to capture changes to individual parts and complete BOMs

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