Ensure Environmental and Regulatory Compliance

Regulatory compliance is not optional; it is a requirement for high tech and electronics companies. Many compliance mandates are already in place, including the European Union's Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive, the Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive, as well as FCC, Sarbanes Oxley, ISO and Six Sigma requirements.

With Siemens PLM Software regulatory compliance solutions you can now treat compliance as a strategic process - not just a reporting issue - by tracking, reporting, designing and manufacturing with compliance in mind.

Siemens PLM Software Regulatory Compliance for High Tech and Electronics provides a flexible framework for supporting internal and external environmental compliance requirements. This Siemens PLM Software solution helps high tech and electronics companies meet compliance requirements for today's directives such as WEEE, RoHS, EuP, and the Japanese Green Procurement Initiative (JGPSSI) - as well as tomorrow's requirements.

With Siemens PLM Software Regulatory Compliance for High Tech and Electronics, regulatory compliance is built directly into the product lifecycle process, ensuring that all regulations are followed and compliance risk is reduced - without compromising innovation or speed to market.

Siemens PLM Software Regulatory Compliance for High Tech and Electronics provides the following capabilities:

Compliance strategy and reporting

• Treats compliance as an integral element in the product lifecycle, allowing your organization to validate product compliance with multiple environmental guidelines, including European RoHS and WEEE requirements and the Japanese Green Procurement Initiative (JGPSSI).
• Delivers robust capabilities for compliance reporting - including support for data collection - and leveraging today's most popular data exchange protocols, such as RosettaNet XML, IMDS and IPC-1752 PDF.
• Manages revision workflows, supplier qualification and all related documents that must be maintained as part of your company's compliance strategy.

Design for compliance

• Provides automated tools to 'design-in' regulatory compliance and end-of-life requirements at the front end of the product lifecycle.
• Enables tracking and analysis of material content, substance concentrations and product exemptions early in the initial design process.
• Facilitates automatic sourcing and design compliance verification.

Manufacture for compliance

• Ensures that production processes comply with all applicable regulatory mandates, including support for compliant part management, component tracking and verification, change management, process verification and monitoring, quality and reliability assurance, and compliance traceability and declaration.
• Identifies materials and quantities added during the manufacturing process for final compliance reporting ("Final as built and as designed BOM verification").
• Manages "Unique as built configurations" for lifecycle compliance and recycling management.