Development of a chemical substance management system

Author

Kumazawa, Takaaki ; Hiroshige, Yuzo ; Haga, Noriyuki ; Sekiya, Yoshiharu ; Arai, Shinichi

Author_Institution

Hitachi Ltd., Japan

fYear

2003

fDate

8-11 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

402

Lastpage

403

Abstract

Regulations had restricted the use of restricted chemical substances in electrical and electronic equipment. Manual checking of all the products for chemical substances is difficult. In order to avoid and to manage great variety of chemical substances a system is constructed. The system consist of Chemical Substance Management System (CSM) that lists regulated chemical substances in a product, a database to register information of the chemical substances and a computer aided design system. The system relates the part configuration of product to the chemical contents of each part and automatically evaluates whether products contain regulated chemicals or not. The system has reduced the evaluation time to 1/10 and enabled real-time evaluation during the design stage.

Keywords

CAD; electrical products; electrical products industry; electronic products; elements (chemical); environmental factors; legislation; product design; chemical substance information database; chemical substance management system; computer aided design; electrical equipment; electronic equipment; environmental factors; product design; real time evaluation; Design automation; Environmental factors; Legal factors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2003. EcoDesign '03. 2003 3rd International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tokyo, Japan

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8590-x

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECODIM.2003.1322701

Filename

1322701