Meeting overview

This meeting will provide a forum for North American, European, and Asian organizations and companies to discuss information exchange requirements and the transition to new standards that support global environmental initiatives for the electronics industry.

Background

IPC-1752, Materials Declaration Management, is a new standard that provides electronic data formats and standardized forms to simplify the exchange of materials declaration data required to support compliance with the RoHS Directive.  It is intended to help reduce the cost and complexity of RoHS compliance, while increasing data quality and decreasing response times.  This IPC standard complements the EIA/JGPSSI/EICTA Joint Industry Guide (JIG-101) for Material Composition Declaration of Electronic Products, which defines the specifics of what needs to be reported (substances and methodology).

The industry’s leading OEMs, EMS providers and solution providers, working through two iNEMI projects, helped define the data collection process requirements and data formats which have been incorporated into IPC-1752.  The standard is also intended to be consistent at the data element level with RosettaNet’s e-business process standards for material composition (RosettaNet PIPs 2A13/2A15).  Balloting recently closed on the IPC-1751/1752 standards, and final publication is expected by the end of the year.

Objectives

The meeting objectives are to:

· Review current business requirements, available solutions and the role of material composition declaration (MCD) data exchange standards, with emphasis on IPC-1752;

· Develop a "roadmap" for driving industry standards implementation for MCD exchange;

· Identify opportunities for cooperation between various collaborative efforts to define and develop programs that will accelerate industry adoption of solutions based on emerging MCD standards.

Who should attend

· Environmental managers and product stewards

· RoHS/WEEE project managers

· Supply chain managers tasked with implementing IT solutions for the exchange of material composition data with trading partners

· Information technology managers tasked with providing infrastructure and tool support for environmental compliance

· Data exchange standards developers and solution providers developing IT solutions for environmental compliance

Agenda