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iNEMI Members Laud Material Declarations Standard
February 9, 2006 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
ANAHEIM, Calif. — A large number of the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI)'s members, mainly OEMs, EMS providers, and suppliers, are committed to implementing the IPC-1752 Materials Declaration Management standard. Slated to be published by IPC this quarter, the standard establishes uniform electronic data formats and standardized forms to simplify the way industry collects, tracks, and discloses material content information.
IPC-1752 aims to reduce the cost and complexity of Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) compliance, while increasing data quality and decreasing response times. Development of this standard began two years ago, with two iNEMI projects that brought together users and solution providers interested in shaping the standards-based processes that the industry would use to communicate materials content data. The specifications developed by these projects provided the starting point for IPC-1752.
Certain companies have committed to implementing processes for material composition data exchange that will be based on IPC-1752. Given that a number of these companies have already deployed solutions that may or may not comply with IPC-1752, a transition period to phase over to the lower-cost standards-based solutions with schedules driven by individual company business plans is expected. Such companies include:
Agile Celestica E2open Foxconn Jabil Circuit Lucent Technologies PCNalert PTC Sanmina-SCI Speedline Technologies Solectron Sun Microsystems Teradyne Texas Instruments Tyco ElectronicsA number of other iNEMI member companies have played an active role on the iNEMI materials declaration projects, as well as the IPC 2-18 Subcommittee that developed IPC-1752. These firms will be evaluating IPC-1752 for incorporation into their materials declaration processes.