Environmental Compliance Solution Enables "Best Practice" in Designing for Regulatory Compliance
Across all industries, compliance with regulatory authorities and government guidelines has become a key factor in product success. UGS recently sponsored a report by industry research firm, AberdeenGroup, titled, Product Compliance: Protecting the Value of Innovation. The report, the latest in Aberdeen's "Business Value Research Series," takes a look at best-in-class manufacturers' approach to compliance, and draws the following conclusions:
Companies that take best-in-class approaches to designing for product compliance are achieving tangible benefits. Aberdeen's Design for Compliance Benchmark indicates that leading companies are adopting organizational approaches that encourage compliance, measure compliance performance more frequently, and use appropriate enabling technologies to support designers in making the right compliance choices at the point of design.
Leading companies are also moving towards identifying and meeting compliance requirements early in the product design process. Companies that elevate the focus on compliance are achieving results:
- 27% product recall reduction
- 15% reduction in design failure rates
- 31% improvement in the number of products in compliance
In recognition of this growing opportunity for our PLM customers to improve product success by better integrating compliance management within their overall product development strategy, UGS is pleased to announce the release of the new Teamcenter® environmental compliance solution.
Teamcenter's new environmental compliance solution is the latest in its set of compliance management solutions. Teamcenter's enterprise knowledge and process management empowers employees to support compliance in their daily tasks. Teamcenter supports compliance management by: 1) capturing regulatory requirements early in the product lifecycle and integrating those requirements into the product definition as it evolves; 2) providing the process visibility and integrity to empower employees to respond to regulatory issues; and 3) providing access to the right product information at the right time.
Teamcenter's compliance management solutions offer the following benefits:
- Facilitate design-for-compliance initiatives
- Provide product developers with rapid visibility to all compliant and non-compliant components
- Integrate compliance management capabilities into current business processes
- Minimize risk of non-compliance
- Reduce total cost of ownership
- Minimize cost associated with excess and obsolete inventory otherwise caused by the use of non-compliant parts
With its robust knowledge management framework for configuration management, record keeping and audit tracking, Teamcenter supports compliance mandates including financial and product records management and archiving, and document and records retention management. Beyond capabilities to support compliance in a general sense, this month UGS released a new solution for environmental compliance.
Introducing Teamcenter's Environmental Compliance Solution
To address overall compliance objectives while enabling product makers to specifically comply with the End-of-Life Vehicle (ELV), Restriction on the Use of Hazardous Substance (RoHS) and Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directives, UGS offers Teamcenter's Environmental Compliance solution as a set of best practices to design in product compliance. Teamcenter provides for the end-to-end collection, management and reporting of environmental compliance and material content information.
Teamcenter's Environmental Compliance solution enables product developers to easily capture detailed material and substance data that pertains to each of the components provided by the product's various suppliers. This data is captured in the form of product requirements. Once the material and substance data is captured by Teamcenter, product developers can relate this data to a hierarchical model that fully defines a part in terms of its underlying substances, material composition, technical materials, part composition and environmental part data.
Technical Features of Teamcenter's Environmental Compliance solution:
- Data source independent
- Automatic validation against ANY compliance or customer standard
- Product BOM aggregation across multi-sourced components
- Industry standard data exchange support: IPC 1752, Rosetta™ Net, IMDS and AIAG ELV Spreadsheet
- Homogeneous material analysis
- Support multiple levels of disclosure
- Manage compliance against multiple specifications:
- RoHS, China RoHS
- ELV
- Internal or Customer requirements
- Manage exemptions and expiration dates
- Fully configurable compliance specifications (XML)
- Flexibility to adjust or add exemptions, banned substances and expiration dates
Ask your UGS sales representative for more information about Teamcenter solutions for compliance management, or visit Teamcenter's compliance management section.
