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扣扣传媒 has been collaborating for over three years with the Partner, offering solutions that help companies define and enforce compliance processes, thus reducing operating costs and ensuring supplier compliance. 扣扣传媒 and the Partner have together successfully completed multiple projects for various clients from capital equipment manufacturing, visual computing and device manufacturing. With collective effort and excellent flexibility the 扣扣传媒 team has strongly sustained the partner鈥檚 commitments in the market. 扣扣传媒 has been providing robust data collection support that enhances efficiency of the compliance software tool.

鈥溈劭鄞� believes in strengthening mutually beneficial partnership and has always worked towards building long-standing relationships,鈥� said 扣扣传媒鈥檚 Business Head of Environmental Compliance. 鈥淥ur relationship with the partner has been very productive. Our team adheres to strict timelines so as to meet the schedules and needs of the client, in the shortest turnaround time. This way, we strive to maximize returns for both our partners as well as our clients.鈥�

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扣扣传媒 Technology Services (enventure.com) is a privately-held, ISO 9001:2008 certified engineering solutions company, with full-fledged engineering service delivery center in India. 扣扣传媒 has been serving clients in North America and Europe since 1997 and is today a preferred supplier of engineering services to Fortune 500 companies, across different industry verticals such as Hi-tech electronics, Medical device manufacturers, Oil & Gas, Automotive and Heavy machinery. 扣扣传媒 provides a wide variety of services to its clients, in areas such as Electronic Design, PCB Design, Plant Design Engineering, Piping Engineering, Mechanical design, CAD, CAM, CAE, Technical Documentation, Component Engineering and Environmental Compliance Support.

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DNVGL, an internationally acknowledged institute for expert certification in the area of technical assessment, advisory and risk management, re-certified 扣扣传媒 for 鈥淐ontent Management Solution & Services including Environmental compliance support for electronic and non-electronic parts, computer aided design (CAD) and manufacturing support for Electronic and mechanical products鈥�.

On this occasion, 扣扣传媒鈥檚 Managing Director said, 鈥淲e have been serving our Clients in the global markets since 1997 and we have been an ardent follower of industry best practices like Kaizen, Rockefeller Habits and Net Promoter Score (NPS). We are a customer centric organization and take pride in our聽聽 high customer satisfaction scores. We operate in a dynamic environment and with changing customer needs, our systems and processes need to be stable and reliable 鈥� while at the same time providing us the flexibility and agility to meet customers鈥� evolving requirements. I believe we have managed to gain a good balance in this mix and having our ISO certification renewed for the 13^th year now is a moment of pride for us, as it speaks volumes about our team鈥檚 continued commitment to quality, process and reliability. We have been a trusted partner to our Clients and we will continue to strengthen those alliances as we go forward.鈥�

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扣扣传媒 Technology Services (enventure.com) is a privately-held, ISO 9001:2008 certified engineering solutions company, with full-fledged engineering service delivery center in India. 扣扣传媒 has been serving clients in North America and Europe since 1997 and is today a preferred supplier of engineering services to Fortune 500 companies, across different industry verticals such as Hi-tech electronics, Medical device manufacturers, Oil & Gas, Automotive and Heavy machinery. 扣扣传媒 provides a wide variety of services to its clients, in areas such as Electronic Design, PCB Design, Plant Design Engineering, Piping Engineering, Mechanical design, CAD, CAM, CAE, Technical Documentation, Component Engineering and Environmental Compliance Support.

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The electro-technical industry and various companies associated with it make use of material declarations for tracking and declaring specific information regarding the material composition of the various final products. The new international standard of IEC 62474 aims to harmonize the requirements of various members within the supply chain and also improve economic efficiencies.

The role of new standard IEC 62474

To synchronize the requirements across the industry and to reduce the cost of data management, IEC has come up with a new standard called IEC 62474. This standard can act as the basis of data exchange for material composition data and provide material declarations.

IEC 62474 specifies: Material declaration content, including terms of substances, substance class and material groups. It also provides data standards for software developers to create applications to manage this data.

Information offered in the IEC 62474 database

There are four types of information provided in the IEC 62474 database

• Declarable substance groups and declarable substances:聽聽 This section contains substances and substance groups with information like 鈥渞eportable applications鈥�, 鈥渞eporting threshold鈥� and 鈥渞eporting requirement鈥�
• Reference Substances: This section contains an indicative list of specific substances that are included with in the substance group. This list is an informative list and not an exhaustive one.
• Material classes: This list includes designated material classes that need to be included in material declarations, if contained in the product.
• XML schema for materials declaration: In this category an XML schema and developer table is available for download.

Getting material declarations for the entire product Bill of Material is an important activity in the compliance effort of most companies. IEC 62474 is a step forward to support the mammoth task undertaken by companies every year to conform to the Environmental Compliances.

What are the substances that should be declared?

The substances that form a part of the products manufactured in the electrical and electronics industry should be mentioned or declared in this material declaration file as set according to the IEC 62474 standard. The manufacturing chemicals or substances that react and form other chemicals and/or otherwise do not continue to remain within the product are not needed to be reported. Nevertheless, in certain cases, a chemical reaction once started may not reach completion and traces of some unreacted quantities of any intermediate chemical substance may continue to remain within the finished product. Such chemicals must be reported at all circumstances. If the intermediate chemicals are presented in the declarable substances list of IEC 62474 and quantity of this component remains above reporting threshold in final product, then that needs to be included in the report. If that is not done, then the material declaration is not going to be in compliance with the requirements of IEC 62474.

A user may simply state that their firm within the is compliance with the norms as presented by the IEC 62474 provided they have included in the list all the reportable substances and the varied substance groups which are present within the final product in quantities above the final reporting threshold.

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鈥楧irective 2011/65/EU鈥� (RoHS2 recast) focuses on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment, thereby requiring every manufacturer selling to the EU market to re-evaluate their inventory and ensure compliance with the recast RoHS and WEEE directives.

Medical Device manufacturers are obligated to ensure and demonstrate compliance with the directive. The implications of Non-Compliance to the RoHS2 directive are grave and will prevent the product from carrying a 鈥楥E鈥� mark and eventual removal of the product from the market.

In order to demonstrate compliance to the RoHS2 recast, Medical Device Manufacturers are required to

1. Define their product and identify the directives applicable to it
2. Source RoHS compliant material from suppliers & analyse and identify material changes needed to comply with the RoHS2 directive
3. Show proof of compliance to RoHS2 recast by drawing up required technical documentation surrounding their product including conformity risk assessment report, test reports for each part
4. Cite relevant harmonized standards applicable to the device
5. Maintain a register of non-conforming products
6. Provide explanations as to why certain parts do not include test reports
7. Analyze their internal production and implement an appropriate internal production control procedure in line with the recast
8. Draw up an EC declaration of Conformity and affix the 鈥楥E鈥� mark on the finished product
9. Be wary of new materials introduced to the medical equipment and ensure that the equipment is tested & re-certified
10. Include a complete evaluation of the product against the list of Restricted Substances by 2014

Medical Device Manufacturers now facing the daunting task of understanding the RoHS2 directive, identifying the rules and regulations impacting their products and providing relevant documentation to demonstrate full compliance. Medical Device Manufacturers have to get comfortable with requirements of RoHS2 directive as fast as they can in order to maintain their competence in EU market.

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Compliance is mandatory for all SEC 鈥渋ssuers鈥�, including foreign issuers, that manufacture or contract to manufacture products where 鈥渃onflict minerals are necessary to the functionality or production鈥� of the product. The rule was enacted as part of an effort to curtail human rights abuses in Africa by regulation of US public companies and also to provide transparency into corporate practices.

The SEC rule does not specifically ban use of materials from such mines, but it requires companies to track and report the origin of the minerals through their supply chain.

The aim is to dissuade companies from using minerals sourced at mines where human rights abuses take place and not engaging in trade that facilitates regional conflict.

The SEC disclosure process involves the following steps

Minerals that are not conflict free must be listed in the Conflict Minerals Report, which must be audited by an independent auditor. Additional documentation is also required for any materials that come from the affected countries to show that it meets the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) due-diligence procedures documenting and the materials are conflict free.聽The first Forms under the rule will be required for the calendar year ending December 31, 2013 and will need to be filed by 31 May 2014.

For most companies Rule will not be easy and will be time consuming with the SEC estimating that initial compliance costs could be between $3 billion to $4 billion,as the complete supply chain needs to be analyzed for source of minerals, particularly those contained in procured parts, assemblies or items purchased from vendors.聽The fact that the supply base is not geared to address these requirements and the information provided by them is not always accurate only adds to the challenge. Hence, it requires multidisciplinary teams working across product lines and tracing multiple supply chains for these materials and their origin.

On one hand, committing to using only conflict-free materials can mean paying higher costs for those materials but on the other hand a company鈥檚 reputation and goodwill is at risk if its products include conflict minerals. Despite the challenges and oppositions raised against various sections of the rule in court, experts believe that ultimately compliance will be mandatory and in fact will be extended to include more industries currently exempt from the rule. Therefore, a company that is committed to a conflict-free business plan can leverage its status towards strategic competitive advantage and be seen as a good corporate citizen.

扣扣传媒 is an industry leader in the compliance space and is one of the first companies to offer that will help you comply with this regulation.

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RoHS, WEEE and REACH EU regulations don鈥檛 just affect companies based within Europe 鈥� they affect any company trading with the European Union. What is more, many other markets are now governed by laws related to those within the EU. RoHS and REACH compliance have become global issues, making environmental compliance management mandatory for engineering firms, even those trading at a local level.

When considering environmental compliance management, you have to consider world conflict and political issues, as well as the harm your products may be doing to the environment. For example, is your company guilty of using conflict minerals? This has nothing to do with the REACH directive, but with the Dodd鈥揊rank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which was signed by President Obama in July 2010, and came into effect in April 2011.

The Act called for a sweeping reform of the US financial regulatory system, which among other things required that any company listed on the US Stock Exchange must declare any Conflict Minerals mined in the DRC zone. In other words, any minerals mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and adjoining African countries suffering armed conflict.

With so many global mandates now in force, many engineering companies are turning to us at 扣扣传媒 Technologies. We offer a comprehensive range of environmental compliance services which cover everything from to the Dodd鈥揊rank mandate.

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Conflict minerals have nothing to do with WEEE and RoHS directives, but with the humanitarian crisis in Africa, and the passing of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, signed by President Obama in July 2010. At the time seemingly of little relevance to PCB design materials, it represented the biggest financial shake-up in the US since the Depression. But a number of statutes regarding overseas trading were introduced, including that concerning conflict minerals.

Conflict minerals are certain ores which have been mined in the DRC Zone, an area of conflict which encompasses the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the adjoining countries of Angola, Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Sudan, Uganda, Zambia, and the Central African Republic. This is an area of extreme and ongoing violence, involving civilian atrocities on an unimaginable scale. An estimated seven million people 鈥� many of them women and children 鈥� have died since hostilities began.

The list of conflict minerals includes Tantalum, Wolframite and Cassiterite 鈥� all of which are used in electronic circuitry and VHDL design. By law, any engineering company listed with the US stock exchange, who uses these products, must declare if they originated from the DRC Zone.

No engineering company in the US wants to fund the DRC hostilities, but it鈥檚 often hard to gauge where products originate. We at 扣扣传媒 Technologies offer a wide range of environmental and are one of the few companies covering conflict minerals legislation.

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