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Support
OEM + EnvironmentalÔ
Meeting Global Environmental
Regulations
Numerous
countries have instituted mandatory environmental compliance schemes
including: The European Union's RoHS and WEEE Directives to control
hazardous substances in electronic products and REACH - a new mandated
program to register chemical compounds.
China
has instituted environmental legislation - very similar to the EU's RoHS
Directive. Each Electronic Information Product, (EIP) must declare the
material concentration value across six hazardous substances. Proof of
conformity is done through supplier data collection, testing and
declarations through labeling and user manual tables.
To
meet this global trend which is wreaking havoc on virtually all electronic
product manufacturers, SIMCOM's proprietary Support
OEM + EnvironmentalÔ
SaaS is a turnkey system with full tie-in to the OEM's Bill of Material,
suppliers' parts and components and automatic form generation as needed in
specific countries.
A
flexible, easy-to-deploy software solution for end-to-end management of
environmental compliance and material content
information.
The following diagram depicts SIMCOM's Support OEM + EnvironmentalÔ
To Purchase
Declaration and Shipping Labels for China RoHS click
here:
China
RoHS Declaration and Shipping Labels
RoHS - Restriction on
the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances
The
Restriction on
the use of
certain Hazardous Substances Directive
(RoHS) 2002/95/EC adopted by the European Union
(EU) in 2003 and China in 2007. Korea, Japan, Canada
and US States, California, Oregon, Vermont and others have various
versions of legislation to control hazardous substances.
EU RoHS Overview As
of July 1, 2006, all Electrical and Electronic Equipment placed on the
EU market may not contain the six restricted substances
that exceed maximum concentration values in homogeneous materials. Certain
exemptions apply in the European Union.
Material
declarations are required from all parts and component suppliers as the
OEM is responsible for conformance at the homogeneous material level.
Although the EU does not require specific declarations, OEMs are
challenged to stand ready to prove compliance upon request from EU
Authorities. It has cost the electronics industry billions of dollars to
comply.
China
RoHS Overview
China RoHS, which has an enforcement date of March 1, 2007, establishes a broad regulatory framework for substance restrictions, pre-market certifications, labeling, and information disclosure requirements. These requirements affect a wide range of products, parts, and components defined as Electronic Information Products (EIP) sold and imported within the People's Republic of China. The EU's WEEE
Directive
The
Waste
Electrical and
Electronic
Equipment
Directive (WEEE) 2002/96/EC adopted by the European
Union (EU) in 2003 along with
RoHS requires producers to provide
recovery and recycling programs for the processing of waste Electrical and
Electronic Equipment (EEE). The WEEE
Directive, which went into effect on August 13, 2005, is meant to prevent
Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment from being introduced to the
municipal/household waste stream. The WEEE Directive
places the responsibility for disposal and recycling of
WEEE on its producer.
The
EU's REACH Program
The new
EU chemicals Regulation REACH entered into force on June 1 2007. The
new European Chemicals Agency in Helsinki, Finland, will be fully operational
on June 1 2008, in time for the industry's obligation to submit
pre-registration dossiers for existing substances and registration dossiers for
new substances.
Registration:
Under REACH, each
producer and importer of chemicals in volume of 1 ton or more per year and
per producer/importer - around 30,000 substances - will have to register with a new EU
Chemicals Agency, submitting information on properties, uses and safe ways
of handling them. They can use existing data and share data. The producers
and importers will also have to pass the safety information on to
downstream users manufacturers that use these chemicals in their
production processes.
To learn more about
SIMCOM's Support OEM + EnvironmentalÔ
send an email to:
service@esimcom.com
Or call (770) 730-9980 for a free demo of the service |
