IHS Environmental Compliance Content Services

IHS consultants and data engineers offer recognized leadership and knowledge for the full range of environmental and compliance information requirements including:

• Global standards and regulations 
• Direct parts supply chain 
• Indirect/MRO supply chain 
• Chemical management 
• Design for the environment 
• Greenhouse gas/carbon management

Starting with an evaluation of your business objectives and regulations in critical markets, IHS consultants determine the specific data needs for your processes and systems to develop a comprehensive requirements definition, collection and production program.

IHS Environmental Compliance Content Services is designed to:

• Reduce the administrative burden of compliance requirements 
• Aggregate and process complex technical and sourcing information
• Optimize access to critical component, substance, and supplier data and documentation

Companies rely on IHS Environmental Compliance Content Services to improve product development and supply chain management workflows.

• Minimize risk of non-compliance 
• Enable strategic sourcing 
• Avoid redesigns 
• Find compliant parts and replacements 
• Standardize content 
• Ensure manufacturing compatibility of alternate parts

This service is applicable to all manufacturing and sustainment operations where internal systems contain incomplete, error-ridden or simply out-of-date information.

Benefits:

• Maximize the value of product lifecycle management or enterprise resource planning systems
• Avoid penalties and fines 
• Meet regulatory guidelines quicker 
• Adjust compliant design and sourcing practices quickly 
• Manage compliance requirements throughout the supply chain 
• Improve ongoing compliance tracking, analysis and reporting

IHS Environmental Compliance Services combines consulting services, reference data and ongoing access to critical environmental compliance information.

IHS provides complete evaluation, production and implementation services to:

• Assess and interpret the impact of regulations 
• Acquire and transform part and supplier documents, declarations, specifications and drawings 
• Format and integrate data into in-house systems and workflows

IHS data engineers source and extract hazardous substance and related information; standardize the information by attribute name, value and unit of measure; and format the information for loading into the client’s enterprise applications and reporting systems.

Environmental Information Attributes and Documentation

• REACH SVHC declarations 
• RoHS compliance 
• Manufacturing parameters (peak reflow temp, moisture sensitivity level, etc) 
• Material disclosures (substance concentration and weight) 
• Component life cycle forecasts 
• Compliant replacements 
• Certificates of compliance 
• Cited exemptions 
• JEDEC & communication standards

Content developed by IHS is application agnostic and easily integrated into Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Part Data Management (PDM), Compliance Assurance Systems, BOM analysis tools or ERP applications.

IHS is experienced with regulations adopted to control the use and manufacture of products and processes containing toxic substances 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

Download the IHS Content Services brochure (PDF)