The environmental regulations have become more stringent in recent years. It forces the supply chain to meet the legislation/customer compliance & track all their substances especially hazardous substance used in products. KPIT supports customers in managing compliance of their products with respect to various directives and customer standards prevalent in the eco-system. Our compliance engineering services includes
With continuous amendment of directives, OEMS and Tier 1 are having challenges due to
- Stringent material data quality requirements and awareness of "TOO-MANY" environmental laws and OEMs specific requirements
- Huge requirement on documentation side
- Increased cost for compliance with regulations
- Technology for Treatment, disposal and recyclability of materials not in place
- Infrastructure requirements for alternate materials research not in place
- All these lead to increased cost of vehicles
Our rich experience of the automotive and down-stream industries makes us the best choice for compliance engineering services.
With 20000+ man-days of process understanding and in-depth knowledge of regulations, we have successfully supported our customers to overcome above challenges by
- Integrated compliance solution for ELV-IMDS, REACh, RoHS and WEEE
- Design and material consultancy
- Material data Sheets(MDS) creation and validation
- ELV Assessment and Monitoring
- Supplier Management
- Design for recyclability and RRR
- Training/guiding the suppliers in customer requirements
End-Of-Life Vehicles (ELV)
End-of-Life Vehicles (ELV) is a directive released in the year 2000 by European Union to reduce the hazardous substance usage and increase the recyclability of the materials used in the automobiles. It is applicable for the materials used in the vehicles (category M1 and N1) put on the market after 1 July 2003 in EU.
KPIT is capable of supporting & managing following databases for different OEM and Tier-1s
International Material Data System (IMDS)
It is an internet based automotive material data system to facilitate environment friendly disposal of used cars. It is a joint development of Audi, BMW, Daimler, Ford, Opel, Porsche, VW and Volvo.
KPIT helps OEMs and Tier1s to integrate European End-of-Life Vehicles (ELV) directive with their Product Part Approval Process (PPAP) and New Product Introduction (NPI)
- New vehicles must be 85% reusable or recyclable (by mass) and 95% recoverable or recyclable, effective December 15, 2008, to receive type-approval in the European Union (needed before vehicles can be manufactured, imported or registered).
- Reusability of component parts, recyclability and recoverability of materials constitute a substantial part of the community strategy for waste management
KPIT IMDS service offerings
KPIT Cummins offers the complete solutions in meeting the extended producer responsibility and ELV compliance requirements. We can completely establish and standardize / optimize the working procedures to meet the ELV directive material compliance requirements.
- Reusability, Recyclability, Recoverability (RRR): We supports customer in achieving RRR requirements as per the End of life of vehicles directive.
- ELV Assessment & Planning Legislative Monitoring: We establish the process for ELV assessment & planning, also updates on the latest legislations to customers. Helps in setting up the complete process for new supplier in complying with ELV directives.
- MDS Validation & Analysis: : We validate the MDS with respect to GADSL, respective OEM standards, IMDS recommendations, REACh & RoHS / WEEE. We are experts in all the OEM hazardous substances and substance of concern (SOC) standards.
- MDS Creation:Our expertise lies in creating MDS using tools like IMDS, IMDS A2, MCC, TcEC & SAP IMDS interface, IPoint etc.,
- Supplier Management: We manage entire supplier base for the IMDS submissions / SVHC analysis, surveys etc.
- Design for Recyclability: We offer the solutions throughout product life cycle in achieving the recyclability targets of ELV directive.
- Customized services: We offer customized services upon the client requirements.
For more information about IMDS, refer the website http://www.mdsystem.com/html/en/home_en.htm
Other ELV Tools
Even though most of the suppliers and customers are using the IMDS as a medium to meet ELV compliance, there are other tools which can be used as a media to meet ELV compliance.
KPIT Cummins supports customers in fulfilling the ELV requirements by using other tools like Peugeot-Citroen (PSA)’s MACSI, AIAG spread sheets, JAMA, Compliance connect spread sheets and any other customized spread sheets. We provide services which include compliance assessment of data sheets filled in the above formats, creation of the data sheets in the above formats / portals and supplier management to collate all the material data sheets.
For more information about AIAG portal, refer the website www.aiag.org
For more information about Peugeot portal, refer the website http://b2b.psa-peugeot-citroen.com/index.htm
Registration Evaluation And Authorization Of Chemicals (REACH)
REACh is a new European community regulation on chemicals and their safe use. It deals with the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemical substances
KPIT can cassist your supply chain to be compliant in REACh activities by
- Identifying the Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) from the BOMs (Bill of Materials).
- Contacting tier suppliers and validating the presence of any of these SVHC’s (as per the list published by ECHA) in their product.
- Reporting on the presence of SVHC’s in the products to customer.
- Follow up with the supplier for non compliant issues
- Training suppliers on REACh and on OEM compliance.
- Customized REACh solutions as per the client requirement.
For more information about REACh, refer the website http://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/reach/reach_intro.htm
Restriction Of Hazardous Substances (Rohs) / Waste Electrical And Electronics Equipment (WEEE)
On February 2003, the European Parliament issued a directive “on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment.” The RoHS directive became effective on July 1, 2006 and applies to new electrical and electronic equipment placed on the European market on or after July 1st.
KPIT Cummins supports customers in meeting their RoHS/WEEE requirements. KPIT Cummins provides services which includes compliance assessment of the data sheets, supplier management
More information about RoHS, refer the website http://www.rohs.gov.uk/