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There are a number of factors that make it difficult to accurately
analyze a bill of materials (BOM) against a material content
database:
· Software solutions assume the data
within your BOM is 100% accurate. If the manufacturers part
number or the manufacturer itself is incorrect, the software
will return spurious results. This is important, as it is
quite common for minor inaccuracies to creep into a BOM over
time. Is the manufacturer AMD, Spansion or Legerity?
· Where component manufacturers are
not changing part numbers following conversion, it is impossible
for a database to suggest which variant you have in your possession.
· Date codes are often needed to
establish precisely when a device was converted. However,
date codes are rarely stored within a BOM.
· Materials content databases can
return large amounts of unnecessary and complex data. The
legislation requires you to take ‘reasonable steps’
to ensure that only six named substances are not present in
the equipment you manufacture. What’s actually required
is a simple answer to a complex question.
· Material content analysis can be
very expensive, often charged per unique part number. However,
where a component manufacturer has a global conversion policy
that applies to their entire portfolio, you can end up paying
many times over for the same answer to the same question.
· Does the software take into account
the homogeneous elements of each device as well as allowable
exemptions?
· Are the ‘by-products’
of RoHS considered? Elevated temperature processing and moisture
sensitivity are not legislative requirements, yet are critical
in a lead (Pb)-free processing environment.
· Does the solution provider have
skilled specialists with a detailed knowledge of RoHS, WEEE,
ELV and EuP Directives and their complex interactions with
each other?
It is because of these limitations that CASEC™
Toolkit was developed to determine a components compliance
status by means of a series of Manufacturer Reference Guides.
We take incomplete, disjointed or complex RoHS conversion
policies from original component manufacturers and create
simple to use guides, written in plain English, with clear
examples and illustrations. One short guide should allow its
user to determine the compliance status of an entire manufacturers
portfolio.
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