Make Smart & Informed Decisions to Ensure Compliance
Enabling companies to comply with an evolving regulatory landscape from the beginning of the design process, while demonstrating compliance with integrated dynamic reporting capabilities.
Today's global manufacturing companies face countless environmental regulations, including those from EU member states (RoHS, WEEE, REACH, EuP), California (S.B. 50), China, and beyond. These directives can profoundly impact the way companies design their products, requiring them to develop capabilities including tracking hazardous materials in components used in their products, designing products for easier "recycle-ability," and ensuring that designers specify only compliant components in their designs. This can impact a broad range of business processes - from design to support to product end-of-life. It also impacts product cost and time-to-market.
Companies need comprehensive, up-to-the-minute views that enable smart and informed decisions throughout the extended enterprise. Solutions should enable "intelligent" component selection by designers - ensuring compliance from the beginning of the design process. Design collaboration and analysis capabilities with suppliers, manufacturing and recycling centers are increasingly important for WEEE compliance to improve the recycle-ability of their products. In addition, it's critical that a solution provides the ability to document that the entire development process - not just the final product - meets standards. This often requires detailed, multi-language, multi-format compliance documentation - and it needs to be provided as quickly as possible when a regulatory body requires it.
PTC's Product Development System (PDS) offers a comprehensive solution for design for environment - a scalable system that leverages PTC's unique combination of strengths in product development and dynamic document publishing. With the PDS, engineers have access to critical compliance information, so they can select compliant parts during the early design stages, preventing costly rework later. Analytical tools test designs against multiple regulations and track their success. The PTC PDS also improves the ability to meet recycling mandates, including high-performance collaboration and visualization tools that help early identification of disassembly and recycling issues. Finally, the PDS includes integral dynamic publishing capabilities that allow for easy and rapid publishing of compliance documentation.
