Dassault Systemes Empowers Manufacturers to Design for the Environment

By DE Editors

Dassault Systemes (DS; Lowell, MA) unveiled important updates to ENOVIA Materials Compliance Central for automotive and high-tech industries regulatory compliance. Built on the ENOVIA V6 platform, ENOVIA Materials Compliance Central (MCC) is a business-process application designed to empower companies to adopt proactive environmental compliance strategies throughout a product's lifecycle.

These new capabilities enable automotive and high-tech manufacturers to meet increasingly stringent regulations mandated by the EU, specifically the End-of-Life Vehicle (ELV), Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS), and Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) directives. While these regulations are focused on the European market, automotive and electronics manufacturers must also meet a broad variety of other regional compliance mandates such as China RoHS, Korea RoHS-ELV, and California RoHS.

Traditionally, the materials-compliance process has been reactive, where compliance reporting and analysis is done late in the product development lifecycle. This approach can have major costs in profitability and time to market. By taking these directives into account during the early design stages, companies can enhance their environmental stewardship by minimizing the use of hazardous materials and cut costs as they seek a smaller environmental footprint.

By leveraging the ENOVIA V6 platform, ENOVIA Materials Compliance Central supports Dassault Systemes vision of PLM 2.0, harnessing collaborative intelligence from diverse online communities. This approach provides key stakeholders with access to material compliance information and provides an out-of-the-box solution to realize immediate value from their investment. Built on a service-oriented architecture (SOA), all deliverables related to collecting, integrating, analyzing, and reporting material compliance information are accomplished in a single platform, eliminating translation errors.

The latest version of ENOVIA Materials Compliance Central enables materials compliance analysis, maximization of reuse of compliant components, assessment of impact of new restricted substances, and management of supplier material declarations.

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