Ensuring Market Success via Environmental Compliance

Devicemakers have until July 2014 to ensure their devices comply with the EU’s Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive – commonly called the RoHS Directive – to be able to earn CE Marking.

In short; no RoHS compliance, no CE Marking, no selling a device in the EU.

Add to that the EU’s ever-changing substance restriction lists within the “Registration, Evaluation, and Authorization of Chemicals” or REACH regulation. If your device contains a substance that’s prohibited, then you’re not allowed to sell it in the EU.

Concerned about your device being banned in the EU? This free webinar helps you manage your environmental compliance.

This complimentary, 60-minute webinar will feature a case study from AB Sciex, a leading medical and laboratory equipment manufacturer, and how it was able to reduce business risk and avoid product shipment interruptions by implementing an enterprise level “Design for the Environment” solution.

This solution integrates and verifies product compliance to RoHS, REACH and other directives at every phase of their product development process using the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE applications.

The session will cover four main areas:

1. “Today’s Regulatory Landscape” and how it affects the products devicemakers manufacture and sell in various global markets.
2. An overview of the “Data Management Challenge” of determining and ensuring the compliance of device products.
3. The “3DEXPERIENCE Platform and the Materials Compliance” solution from Dassault Systèmes, and the business process and data flow that it enables.
4. “Customer Success Stories” with a particular focus on the success at AB Sciex as related by its Director of Compliance – George Valaitis.

In 2010 AB Sciex had concerns. The company had 1,000 suppliers, 100,000 purchased components and more than 100 products… and it needed an end-to-end materials and components compliance solution that allowed it to comply with RoHS and other EU device and environment regulations.

The Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE application was deployed within AB Sciex. It enabled AB Sciex to reap the following benefits:

• Reduce or eliminate the use of hazardous materials and substances in its products, thereby avoiding additional problems such as launch delays, recalls, fines, poor customer satisfaction and a damaged public image.
• Ability to analyze “Best and Worst Case” compliance states for a bill-of-materials (BOMs) containing common off-the-shelf components with multiple compliant and non-compliant sources.
• Quick and efficient processing of customer requests around the presence of banned, restricted and reportable substances at all levels of a product BOM structure.
• Reduced the overall cost of achieving environmental compliance by relying less on contract manufacturers to provide component environmental compliance data
• Minimized overall headcount increases in managing product environmental compliance in an ever changing and evolving environmental regulatory landscape
• Ability to demonstrate proof of environmental compliance at all levels in case of country specific audits, external audits, and/or internal audits

If you’re concerned about your environmental compliance with RoHS and REACH – and your EU sales – take a few minutes to register today. And mark your calendar for Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013; 1:30 p.m.- 2:30 p.m. EST. You won’t be disappointed.

Source: FDANews