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
Component Engineering
Design Engineering
Design Libraries and CAD Engineering
Procurement
Supply Chain and Resilience
Quality
Legal
SEC Reporting Function
Audit Function
Management
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
Accuris consultants help you gather regulatory information for inclusion in your reporting systems, using the following
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
Material disclosures (substance concentration and weight)
Component life cycle forecasts
Compliant replacements
Certificates of compliance
Cited exemptions
JEDEC & communication standards
Accuris consultants are experienced with international regulations. We help you comply with and meet reporting requirements for global laws such as:
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
Export Compliance Content Services provides custom information resources to improve your export compliance. We analyze and process your export compliance data, guiding you on how to comply with international regulations around exporting sensitive materials.
Minimize compliance and penalty risks
Simplify ITAR processes
Focus on core competencies
Minimize compliance costs
Avoid reputation downgrade
Disentangle staff from regulatory management
These apply to importing and exporting U.S. technology in products, services, and technical data. Both US and non-US companies must adhere to these regulations and face the same penalties if they do not comply. Our team analyzes your data against these:
The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)
Arms Export Control Act (AECA)
Export Administration Regulations (EAR)
The Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls
Using ISO 9001 certified processes, Accuris consultants and engineers analyze, source, organize, and integrate regulation data that directly affects your products.
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
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
Accuris, in partnership with the iPoint Conflict Mineral Platform (iPCMP), offers Conflict Mineral services including CMRT collection, analysis, due diligence performance, supplier training, and Conflict Mineral Workshops.
The iPoint Conflict Minerals Platform (iPCMP) is a web-based, on-demand software solution providing conflict minerals data collection, management, aggregation, and reporting. Manage conflict minerals policy such as tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold across the supply chain. Meet customer and Dodd-Frank conflict minerals policy requirements.
Together with iPCMP, our consultants help you:
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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