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Colleagues,

The IPC-1750 Series: A Family of Supplier Declaration Standards

Simplifying how Industry Collects, Tracks and Discloses 

Product Material Content Information

BANNOCKBURN, Ill., June 10, 2005 - As many companies struggle to
determine their strategy for meeting the European Union (EU) Restriction
of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive and other materials
restrictions, companies throughout the supply chain are being inundated
with a multitude of differing, detailed requests for information about
the precise materials content of their products.

For more than a year now, global efforts by IPC, iNEMI and RosettaNet
have been underway to simplify and standardize how the industry
collects, tracks and discloses product material content information. The
industry's leading OEMs, EMS providers and solution providers, working
through two iNEMI projects, defined a data collection process flow and
data format for industry-standard material composition data exchange. 

From these efforts has come a family of supplier declaration standards,
namely two in draft form, IPC-1751, Generic Requirements for Declaration
Process Management - describing all generic requirements, including
company information and, IPC-1752, Materials Declaration Management -
establishing electronic data formats and providing standardized forms to
simplify the exchange of materials declaration information.

The draft standards and PDF forms were released today, June 10, 2005,
for a 60-day industry review and can be accessed at
www.ipc.org/IPC-175X. Once all feedback has been reconciled according to
the ANSI (American National Standards Institute) standards approval
process, the standards will be issued. 

IPC-1752 -- How it works          

IPC-1752 outlines a supply chain materials declaration format and
process that provides a simple, effective approach to assist companies
in meeting environmental regulation compliance. The standard provides a
material content declaration (MCD) form, which will simplify and improve
material composition data exchange throughout the supply chain, driving
cost savings and efficiencies. The forms are based on an underlying XML
schema, which in turn is represented by a UML data model. Data entered
into the form is forced to conform to the schema requirements because
the form design tool binds the schema elements directly to the form
fields, thereby ensuring a higher level of data quality. The data
captured by these forms can then be extracted and exchanged in a
standard XML format which will conform to the related RosettaNet PIPs(r)
(Partner Interface Process(r)).

The MCD forms facilitates three levels of declaration using two
different forms: a general yes/no RoHS compliance declaration, a Class I
JIG (Joint Industry Guide) declaration at the part level (IPC-1752-1
form), and a Class II declaration which includes RoHS and JIG substances
at the homogeneous material level, along with related manufacturing
parameters (IPC-1752-2 form). The forms can be exchanged via electronic
means, from e-mail or Web interfaces to advanced and secure
business-to-business methods.

For additional information on the IPC-1750 series, contact IPC's
Director of Technology Transfer, Dieter Bergman, at 847-597-2839 or
[log in to unmask] or IPC's Director of Environmental Policy, Fern
Abrams, at 202-962-0460 or [log in to unmask]

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