Material Compliance · part of Safety & Compliance

Material Compliance Software A customer asks if your assembly is RoHS compliant. Can you answer today?

Keep supplier declarations against each part revision, check them against versioned REACH, RoHS, ELV and conflict minerals lists, and see the status of every finished good rolled up through its BOM.

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The basics

What is material compliance software?

Material compliance software stores what each part is made of, or what its supplier declares about it, and checks that against regulated substance lists such as REACH SVHC, RoHS and ELV, and against conflict minerals declarations. It shows which parts and finished goods are compliant, reportable, non-compliant or unknown, and which component caused it.

The data usually sits in a mailbox. A customer sends a REACH questionnaire, someone emails twenty suppliers, half reply with a certificate from three years ago, and the answer goes back as a spreadsheet nobody can trace. When ECHA adds substances to the SVHC list, there is no quick way to see which of your products are hit.

Features

REACH and RoHS compliance software that works from your BOM

Full material declarations and supplier claims

Store a full material declaration with materials, masses and substance percentages, or a simple claim per regulation such as compliant, compliant with exemptions or contains SVHC. Each one has a supplier, documents, a received date and an expiry date.

Versioned REACH, RoHS and ELV lists

Regulation lists are your own data: each version holds thresholds, the level they apply at, and exemptions. Starter RoHS, ELV, CMRT and EMRT lists are included, and you import the current SVHC list from CSV.

BOM roll-up that shows the cause

Status rolls up through the engineering BOM, approved alternates included, and keeps the trail, for example lead 0.3% in brass in part 100-251 at level 2. REACH is judged per article and never diluted across the assembly.

Supplier declaration requests

Ask suppliers through the supplier portal, one part or many at once. They answer each line, upload documents and submit, with reminders before the due date and escalation once it is overdue.

Impact when a list changes

Activate a new list version and see what was added, the parts that contain it, the claims made against the old version, and the finished goods and open sales orders affected. Then ask those suppliers in one step.

IMDS and CAMDS submission records

Record each IMDS or CAMDS submission per part and customer, with MDS ID, status and dates. The record shows on the PPAP submission for the same part.

Connected

Material Compliance doesn't live alone

Declarations attach to part revisions and BOMs in PLM, and the suppliers to ask come from your purchase info records. Requests go through the same portal suppliers use for PPAP, IMDS records show on the PPAP submission, and a part's change impact includes its compliance status.

Standards and industries

Full material declaration and substance lists, by industry

IndustryStandardWhat you get
AutomotiveIMDS, ELV, GADSLMaterial data sheet submissions before PPAP, restricted substances in vehicles, customer substance lists
Electrical and electronicsRoHSTen restricted substances, checked in each homogeneous material, with exemptions
Anyone selling into the EUREACH SVHCCandidate list substances above 0.1% of the article, reported to customers
Suppliers to US-listed customersConflict minerals (CMRT, EMRT)Supplier declarations with the reporting template attached
FAQ

Material compliance questions people ask

Still unsure? Ask our team.

What is RoHS compliance?

RoHS is the EU directive that restricts ten substances in electrical and electronic equipment: lead, mercury, hexavalent chromium, PBB, PBDE and four phthalates at 0.1%, and cadmium at 0.01%, each measured in a homogeneous material. A part complies when every material is under those limits or covered by a valid exemption.

What is REACH compliance?

REACH is the EU regulation on chemicals. For parts, the duty most suppliers meet is telling customers about any substance of very high concern (SVHC) on the candidate list above 0.1% of the article's weight. YourBrand marks such a part as reportable, carries the finding up to the assembly and keeps each list version.

What is the difference between REACH and RoHS?

RoHS restricts a fixed set of substances in electrical and electronic equipment, and a product over the limit cannot be sold. REACH applies to all products, and its candidate list keeps growing; above 0.1% you must inform your customers. YourBrand treats RoHS entries as restricted and SVHC entries as declarable.

What is IMDS?

IMDS, the International Material Data System, is the automotive industry's database of material data sheets. Most OEMs want an accepted IMDS entry for a part before PPAP sign-off. YourBrand records each IMDS or CAMDS submission with its MDS ID and status. The data sheet itself is built in IMDS.

What is an SVHC?

A substance of very high concern is a chemical that ECHA has put on the REACH candidate list because it may cause cancer, harm fertility, build up in the environment or have similar serious effects. An article holding more than 0.1% of one by weight must be declared to customers.

What is a full material declaration?

A full material declaration lists every material in a part with its mass, and every substance in each material with its percentage. With one on file you can check the part against any list, including lists that change later, without going back to the supplier.

What happens when a supplier has not declared?

The part shows as Unknown, never as compliant, and Unknown rolls up to every assembly that uses it. The dashboard counts these parts, so you can ask their suppliers in bulk.

Answer your next REACH request from the BOM

We walk through it with your own parts and documents. It takes about 30 minutes.

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