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News Release from: Siemens PLM Software
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 02 December 2005
Team effort to enable design for
compliance
UGS and Synapsis Technology are to develop a set of solutions to assist companies in the automotive and high tech electronics industries to comply with environmental regulations.
UGS Corp has entered into a software development and marketing relationship with Synapsis Technology through which the companies will offer a comprehensive set of solutions to assist companies in the automotive and high tech electronics industries to comply with a significantly increased set of environmental regulations The new joint solutions integrate EMARS (Environmental Materials Aggregation and Reporting System) software, Synapsis' industry leading solution for environmental material and hazardous substance reporting, with Teamcenter software, UGS' digital lifecycle management solution and the world's most widely used PLM portfolio
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 22 May 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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"UGS' Teamcenter products enriched with the accurate and timely compliance data generated in Synapsis' EMARS, provides the necessary view to design and supply chain engineering for realising true design for the environment".
The integrated Teamcenter and EMARS solutions enable organisations to efficiently manage and report on their compliance with several recently enacted and impending environmental regulations primarily affecting the automotive and high tech electronics industries.
WEEE imposes on producers of electrical and electronic equipment legal responsibility for financing the treatment, recycling and recovery of consumer electronic goods.
ELV (End of Life Vehicle) is a directive adopted by the European Commission which aims at making vehicle dismantling and recycling more environmentally friendly.
ELV sets clear quantified targets for reuse, recycling and recovery of vehicles and their components.
RoHS dictates certain consumer electronic goods marketed within the EU may not contain more than the permitted levels of lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, PBBs or PBDEs.
The joint solution includes several features designed to address the specific requirements of these regulations: data collection, verification and management; component qualification and exemption management; product qualification and reporting; product bill-of-materials (BOM) aggregation across multiple sourced components; compliance validation - the ability to compare a BOM with a particular industry standard; data exchange and reporting; and design for compliance - the ability to select product components based on material content and their ability to comply with regional standards.
"Without the right tools, compliance with new and existing regulatory requirements can drive significant complexity and cost into the product innovation process", said Chuck Grindstaff, Executive Vice President of Products, UGS.
"Companies need the ability to implement new, lean and efficient techniques that take environmental issues into account early and throughout a product's lifecycle".
"The UGS and Synapsis offerings combine production proven tools into solutions to do just that - enable 'design for compliance'".
"The result is that qualification, exemption, validation and reporting are integrated into the process of innovation, enabling another dimension for competitive advantage while producing environmentally friendly and compliant products".
The integrated Teamcenter and EMARS solutions are available today through UGS and Synapsis Technology.
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