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iNEMI, IPC to Host Meeting on MCD Exchange Implementation
November 1, 2005 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
HERNDON, Va. and BANNOCKBURN, Ill. — IPC–Association Connecting Electronics Industries and the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI) will host a session at Productronica 2005, to be held November 15–18 in Munich, to discuss implementation and industry adoption of material composition data (MCD) exchange standards. The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, November 16th, from 9:00 a.m. to noon in Conference Room A 61.
This meeting will target understanding current business requirements and the role of materials composition data (MCD) exchange standards, with emphasis on IPC-1752; developing a "roadmap" for driving industry implementation of standards for MCD exchange; and identifying opportunities for cooperation between various collaborative efforts to develop programs that will accelerate industry adoption of solutions based on emerging MCD standards. Additional meeting details are available by clicking here.
"Complying with RoHS is one of the most difficult transitions the electronics industry has ever faced. It is affecting every aspect of the supply chain and the relationships companies have built with their suppliers and customers," says Fern Abrams, IPC's director of environmental policy. "Being able to demonstrate compliance with materials restrictions involves gathering, organizing and storing a tremendous amount of data. Standardized materials declaration tools, such as IPC-1752, can help."
"Industry-standard approaches to MCD exchange are required to support the growing challenge," says Richard Kubin, vice president of E2open and chair of the iNEMI MCD Exchange Project and the IPC 2-18 Declaration Process Management Subcommittee (which is responsible for IPC-1752). "As the number of requests for materials composition data grow exponentially, suppliers are indicating that they will be unable to support the demand without standards that allow consistent declaration formats and electronic exchange. Through global industry interaction, such as this meeting at Productronica, we intend to establish committed programs between leading supply chain partners in order to accelerate the industry adoption of MCD exchange standards as defined by IPC-1752."