Material Compliance Management Process
Kattelus, Moona (2019)
2019
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201905088171
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201905088171
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The purpose of the thesis was to do a process description of material compliance management for ABB Distribution Solutions unit. ABB follows the EU RoHS and REACH legislations, which give requirements for data collection. This thesis clarifies the requirements of the legislations, data collection process, responsibility parties and interfaces to other processes at ABB EPDS.
Material compliance data is collected for components from their manufacturers to get the RoHS and REACH compliances. Data is collected by material compliance engineers and ABB’s cooperation partner, which provides also a software tool for maintaining and storing the data. The material compliance management process has interfaces to hardware milestone process, supply chain management process, component standardization process and HSE project.
This thesis gives an overall picture of the material compliance management process so that responsibilities can be shared, and employees will be more informed of compliance issues and process interfaces. It gives ideas of new process steps and tasks so that compliance issues could be noticed earlier to avoid problems and ensure the product level compliance reporting for ABB’s customers. There are some challenges for the data collection, such as data importing between the software tools.
Material compliance data is collected for components from their manufacturers to get the RoHS and REACH compliances. Data is collected by material compliance engineers and ABB’s cooperation partner, which provides also a software tool for maintaining and storing the data. The material compliance management process has interfaces to hardware milestone process, supply chain management process, component standardization process and HSE project.
This thesis gives an overall picture of the material compliance management process so that responsibilities can be shared, and employees will be more informed of compliance issues and process interfaces. It gives ideas of new process steps and tasks so that compliance issues could be noticed earlier to avoid problems and ensure the product level compliance reporting for ABB’s customers. There are some challenges for the data collection, such as data importing between the software tools.