Consult with compliance experts through Content Services
Environmental Compliance, Conflict Minerals, and Export Compliance Services
Balance your product regulations, customer requirements, and corporate goals—while managing all the part content needed to support them.
Successful companies are undergoing a digital transformation to meet increased requirements. Our consultants provide critical component, supplier, and compliance information, including the latest technical, environmental compliance, and sourcing data and documentation from component manufacturers and suppliers around the world.
Accuris provides a two-prong approach to help you build and maintain content:
Parts Database of 1.1 billion electronic and mechanical parts.
This content is automatically maintained by the Accuris team based on information published by the original component manufacturer, new material regulations, distributor pricing and availability, and Accuris-generated content (part classification and standard ways to describe similar parts, estimated obsolescence). This content is directly available in our applications through our integrations. This is the quickest and most cost-effective way to obtain and maintain needed part content.
Accuris Content Services.
When the content you need isn’t in the Parts Database (such as custom parts, content for a new use model, etc.), Accuris provides Content Services. These services target specific information and typically source, process, and deliver the content into your BOM Intelligence application, or provide a deliverable to load into a corporate database or application (PLM, Material Compliance, ERP, etc.). Content Services follow an ISO 9001 certified process. Services are provided by our expert content teams and are extremely cost-effective compared to companies doing this themselves. Experts also consult on core regulations and workflows, including targeted workshops.
Accuris Content Services Work with a Variety of Corporate Functions
Designed for compliance
Environmental, Conflict Minerals, and Export Compliance Services are for you if you want to:
- Improve product development and marketability
- Ensure manufacturer environmental compliance
- Manage extended supply chains
- Mitigate inaccurate or incomplete legacy data
- Integrate and share data across your enterprise
- Fulfill compliance requirements quickly
- Minimize threats
Contact Accuris content services to discuss your project.
Accuris will review your objectives, content requirements, and target systems where the content will be used. We will assess what content is readily available (in the Accuris Parts Database and defined in standards), what content needs to be processed (like internal drawings), and what content to direct source from manufacturers and suppliers.
Key Use cases for Parts Content Services
Environmental Compliance Content Services
Obtain material compliance content to ensure your products comply with environmental regulations, client requirements, and corporate goals.
Accuris consultants will cleanse and verify the accuracy of your part master files, catalogs, and item information. The team determines your specific data needs for processes and systems to develop a comprehensive program for hazmat and environmental compliance throughout the supply chain.
- Minimize administrative burdens
- Guarantee production schedules
- Simplify the parts management process
- Minimize risk of non-compliance
- Enable strategic sourcing
- Avoid redesigns
- Find compliant parts and replacements
- Standardize content
- Ensure manufacturing compatibility of alternate parts
- Enable complete product reporting
- Use in corporate material compliance, PLM, or other system
- REACH SVHC declarations
- RoHS compliance
- Regulations, standards, laws, and other restricted and reportable programs: ADSL (Aerospace Declarable Substance List), SCIP, EU Critical Raw Materials, CA Prop 65, TSCA, PFAS, FMD, EU POPS
- Compliant replacement parts
- Exemptions
- Manufacturing parameters (peak reflow temp, moisture sensitivity level, etc)
- Material disclosures (substance concentration and weight)
- Component life cycle forecasts
- Compliant replacements
- Certificates of compliance
- Cited exemptions
- JEDEC & communication standards
- EU RoHS and WEEE Directives
- RoHS Recast
- EU REACH & REACH SVHC
- Priority Declarable Substances List (PDSL)
- China RoHS, Thailand’s “RoHS,” and Argentina’s RoHS
- UN Stockholm Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPS)
- Environmentally Preferred Products (EPP)
- Health Canada & Canadian Chemical Management Plan
- EU Medical Device Directive
- US Code of Federal Regulations; FDA
- US California Proposition 65
- Japan Green
- Norway PoHS
The content is application-agnostic and integrates into Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Part Data Management (PDM), Compliance Assurance Systems, BOM analysis tools or ERP applications.
Scope of Services:
- Evaluation – First we assess the regulatory impact to your production
- Collection – Next, we acquire part and supplier documents, declarations, specifications and drawings
- Integration – Then we format and consolidate the data into your systems and workflows
The Content Services Team will:
- Source information from manufacturers or from Accuris Parts Database
- Ensure content is aligned with most recent versions of regulations and update, if necessary
- Process according to Accuris ISO 9001 certified program and industry best practices
- Build deliverable and provide for use in your material compliance, PLM, or other application
- Optionally load into Accuris BOM Intelligence to enable complete reporting on product BOMs
Export Compliance Content Services
- Minimize compliance and penalty risks
- Simplify ITAR processes
- Focus on core competencies
- Minimize compliance costs
- Avoid reputation downgrade
- Disentangle staff from regulatory management
- The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)
- Arms Export Control Act (AECA)
- Export Administration Regulations (EAR)
- The Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls
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Analysis – Based on your products, components, and technology, our data professionals develop a list of attributes required for decision support including:
- Military equipment status
- Applicable export control list or code
- Export control jurisdiction
- US Munitions List Category
- Export Control Classification Number
- Transfer and user certifications
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Scope of Services:
- Products and Parts – First we analyze applicable regulations and specific data requirements
- Regulations – Next, we source export-related information on your part lists
- Standardization – Then we index and normalize data
- Integration – Last, we develop a data delivery mechanism and update schedule
Conflict Minerals Software and Services
- Avoid material non-compliance
- Gain insight into potential risks
- Demonstrate due diligence
- Support SEC filings
- Prepare conflict minerals disclosures
- Simplify compliance procedures
- Strengthen the management system of Conflict Minerals
- Improve the traceability of your Conflict Mineral Supply Chain
- Comply with EU regulation
- Comply with SEC reporting obligations
- Provide transparent information to your stakeholders
- Source CMRTs and related Conflict Mineral information from manufacturers
- Perform checks and due diligence, follow up with manufacturers when Red Flags are triggered
- Process the information according to Accuris ISO 9001 certified program and industry best practices
- Experts use iPCMP to automate the collection process and store all communications, checks and due diligence proofs
- Provide CMRT Roll-up training with iPCMP so that you can generate your own CMRT.
Other use cases
Content Services consult with you on all types of projects (electronic, mechanical, COTS, materials, substances, etc.) to complement the content available in the Accuris Parts Database and enable more complete analysis and reporting on your products.
Below is a list of all standard use cases that Content Services helps with:
ESG
- Environmental Material Compliance
- Conflict Minerals
- Forced Labor
- Carbon Footprint (LCA-Life Cycle Assessment)
Supply Risk
- Obsolescence and Lifecycle
- Authorized Supply
- Semiconductor Fab location and electronic materials
Commercial Considerations
- Trade Data and Export Control
- Distributor and market pricing
- Web Enablement
- Content for Manufacturer and Distributor websites
Engineering
- Review of drawings and content extraction
- Review of standards and content extraction
- Technical content from datasheets for CAD, simulation models (circuit, thermal, vibrational, etc.)
Benefits of Content Services
- Speed time to content and time to value
- Minimize costs and content administration
- Power new and existing part, product, and corporate workflows
- Use obtained content in Accuris BOM Intelligence application and in target corporate systems
- Meet regulatory product requirements
- Meet customer requirements
- Meet corporate requirements
- React quickly to changing requirements
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