Click Here for an Introduction to the EU RoHS & WEEE Directives
DCA offers a vast suite of services designed to help your company achieve, maintain, and even surpass RoHS and WEEE compliance.
Product Assessment We provide answers to these questions: Are our products covered by EU/China/Korea/etc. RoHS and WEEE and other material and recycling legislation throughout the world? Are there exemptions we can take advantage of? What should we be doing now and in the future?
Training DCA's on-site private seminars bring you up to speed on worldwide environmental regulations and legislation and the impact on your company, and level-set everyone's understanding.
The RoHS Business ComplianceTM Program DCA offers a suite of services intended to both help and validate Electronics OEMs’ approaches to the
challenge of continued RoHS compliance:
Gap Assessment – What is the delta between your processes and Design/PLM/ERP/CRM tools today
and where they need to be to ensure continued compliance with RoHS?
Gap Closure – Already know what the gaps are but are unsure of the best way to close them? Each
company is different, but the general rules of the game are the same. We know how to get you from
where you are to where you need to be and will guide you through the process of achieving corporate long-term compliance. Examples include
Business Processes DCA can help ensure that you have efficient and effective business processes to collect the right data in your New Part Request process, develop a Design for Environment process, implement Green BOM Reviews, clarify your spares management process, etc.
Standards and Specifications Communicating your requirements to your suppliers is also a critical aspect of ensuring compliance; DCA can help you develop Supplier Compliance and Material Disclosure specifications.
Software System of Record Today's Systems of Record (SoR) either do little or nothing to help you manage compliance. Some have a roadmap to bring product to market; others have none. Whether you're satisfied or not with your SoR software, DCA will help you understand what you should expect from your SoR and how you need to configure it to help you manage compliance information.
Process/Tool Audit – Companies that have already modified their tools and business processes can
benefit from an expert-level review of those processes. Are you ready for an ISO9001 audit, or a “due diligence” questionnaire from an EU enforcement body? We will validate your preparedness.
Best Practices – How can your business processes and the supporting/enabling tools that underlie them
be improved to become more efficient and effective, raise organizational productivity, save money, and focus your competitive advantage?
On-Demand Consulting When you need a quick answer, clarification on points of contention, or a knowledgeable opinion on environmental regulations and requirements, we can provide it.
BOM Transition Service: Allow DCA to jump-start the conversion of your products to compliance with the EU RoHS and WEEE Directives, China RoHS, and other similar requirements.
Why Choose Design Chain Associates?
There are numerous reasons to consider DCA for all your RoHS/WEEE/EuP/IPP/International Compliance needs. Consider these facts:
The principals have over 80 years of combined experience in semiconductor and system level quality, reliability, component, procurement, and design engineering and engineering management. We came from industry and have deep and current experience and knowledge - we did not "grow up" in a consulting, software, or data services firm. We know the supply base "first-hand" and we know what Electronics OEMs face when dealing with it.
While we did not found the company to specifically address RoHS, WEEE, and environmental regulations, they are obviously and squarely within our focus. The fact that our perspective is far broader than just these regulations and their impact means we give YOU perspective when dealing with them.
We are not "Johnny-Come-Latelys" to RoHS/WEEE. Plenty of consultants and service providers are suddenly popping up claiming expertise, including major consulting firms. Be careful about who you select. Read articles they write or are quoted in (are they even quoted anywhere by the press?). Read the presentations they give at industry conferences: are they even invited to speak, participate, or present? Look at the data they provide as fact - is it? Do they have the right perspective? An agenda? Is this their main focus? Their only focus? How long have they been around and how much experience and insight do they really have in to both how your company and the industry operates, and the impact of environmental regulation? Are they credible or are they being selected because they've provided services in other areas before, and is that a guarantee of quality service in this area? When you choose the "low cost leaders", the "Johnny-Come-Latelys", or the "name leaders" you get what you pay for.
We engage with our clients and work with them to devise the right approach for them and their budget; we do not tell them what to do without ensuring we have a complete understanding of their situation and desires; nor do we have rigid, one-size-fits-all services. We tailor our services to your needs.
Our insight is based on deep experience and is well-respected - we are sought-after speakers for conferences and workshops, and are widely quoted and published while others resort to issuing frequent press releases to be perceived as visible. We are forward-looking and engaged with researchers, government officials, universities, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) so we understand the drivers and trajectory of product-targeted environmental regulation. We see the forest; we see the trees. And we know how to translate that in to the right and most cost-effective action for today and strategy for tomorrow.
We have a complete network of knowledgeable, well-known and well-respected consulting firms, service providers, and law firms able to help you with every aspect of compliance.
DCA is the best choice for today's Electronics OEM looking for a complete solution to environmental compliance. For more information please call Michael Kirschner, 866-DCA-7676 x2 or send an email.
We're actively providing seminars to Electronics OEMs that need to bring many people, including executive staff, up to speed on these issues quickly. These seminars can be customized in part to focus on your market, your issues, and your concerns.
For more information please call Ken Stanvick: 866-DCA-7676 x4
