Materials Compliance

End-of-Life Vehicles (ELVs) have been highlighted as a priority waste stream by the European Commission (EC) due to the growing concern over the amount of waste material generated by ELVs each year. ELVs amount to over 9 million tons per year and the resulting waste material has been identified as needing to be managed more responsibly. Targets were set for the reuse, recovery and recycling of vehicles and their components, and to encourage producers to design new vehicles with consideration of their end-of-life treatment. The European Parliament and the EC published the Directive, known as the End-of-Life Vehicles Directive, in the Official Journal L269 on October 21, 2000, (Directive 2000/53/EC).

Learn more:

• EU ELV Site
• IMDS System News

ENOVIA Materials Compliance Central enables companies to track, analyze, and report a product’s environmental compliance. Companies can assess their compliance against:

• RoHS for the EU, China, California, and South Korea
• Joint Industry Guide (JIG) A and B
• ELV
• Global Automotive Declarable Substance List (GADSL) Prohibited and Declared
• Packaging for EU and US
• REACH initiatives

Product compliance engineers can view the material information in the context of the product bill of materials (BOMs), and cross-reference the data against multiple regulations.

Learn more:

• ENOVIA Materials Compliance Central

ENOVIA Materials Compliance Supplier Portal provides tools for compliance engineers to determine which outsourced parts are unreported, generate material declaration requests for these parts, and import material declarations once suppliers provide them.

The software includes the ‘Compliance Connect’ spreadsheet, an industry standard tool for data collection and certification of material composition of supplier parts. The spreadsheet consists of worksheets for defining the product bill of material (BOM), material, and substances. Separate versions of the worksheet are available for:

• RoHS (collects data for the high-tech industry)
• ELV (collects data for the automotive industry)
• ELV+RoHS (collects data for the automotive and high-tech industries)

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ENOVIA Materials Compliance Supplier Portal

ENOVIA X-BOM Materials Compliance exposes compliance information directly in ENOVIA Engineering Central, enabling product engineers to design environmentally friendly products (eco-design). As design engineers use ENOVIA Engineering Central to navigate the bill of materials (BOM) and build product designs, calculated compliance values are displayed in part search results, engineering BOM reports, alternative parts listings, and manufacturer equivalent part summaries.

Visible calculated compliance values include the directives loaded into ENOVIA Materials Compliance Central when industry-specific data management options are installed. Those options and accompanying directives include:

• ELV Data Management module (ELV and prohibited and declared GADSL data)
• ROHS Data Management option (RoHS [EU, California, China, and Korea], JIG A, and JIG B
• Packaging Data Management option (EU and US Packaging)

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ENOVIA X- BOM Materials Compliance