Compliance Management for OEM-Specific RoHS/REACH SVHC Requirements

This article describes the best practice of environmental compliance management on subsystems or modules to comply with IBM Engineering Specification 46G3772. The article also suggests using a software tool to systematically validate compliance and produce the data necessary to complete IBM's Product Content Declaration (PCD) form. This combination of (1) collecting full disclosure material information and (2) managing the data with a powerful software tool provides a long-term solution to compliance management.