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Cutting edge organizations are turning regulatory compliance into a strategic advantage and, in return, are gaining new customers, reducing risk and beating the competition.
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Ensure Environmental and Regulatory Compliance
Regulatory compliance is not optional; it is a requirement for High Tech and Electronics companies. Many environmental 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, the new Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemical substances (REACH) as well as FCC, Sarbanes Oxley, ISO and Six Sigma 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, WEEE requirements and REACH chemical registration.
- Delivers robust capabilities for compliance reporting - including support for data collection - and leveraging today's most popular data exchange protocols, such as RosettaNet XML, IPC-1752/1 intelligent 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 RFx process for supplier relationship management 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.
