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Sustainability in Electronics Supply Chains
Electronics manufacturers are heavily regulated and sell into a range of verticals. Assent’s supply chain sustainability solution can help you see deeper and grow better for business success.
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Overview
The Electronics Industry: An Overview
Vast global supply chains present challenges to electronics manufacturers. To meet all their requirements, these companies require deep knowledge of regulations, the composition of their parts, and due diligence guidelines for responsible supply chains.
Challenge
The Risks of Non-Compliance in the Electronics Industry
Electronics manufacturers are subject to a wide range of regulations and unique requirements, made all the more difficult due to the complexity of their supply chains. Manual programs won’t keep up as your company grows.
Non-compliance can result in material sourcing disruptions, delays or seizures at border crossings, and the loss of contracts or market access.
Learn more about recent enforcement actions that demonstrate why proactive compliance is a business must.
Featured Resource | eBook
Navigating the Compliance Landscape: Electronics
In the electronics industry, restricted substances, labor rights violations, and other non-compliance issues can be hidden deep in the supply chain. This eBook helps you address these risks, covering key regulations that impact the electronics industry, standards leveraged by electronics manufacturers, and industry-specific strategies for compliance programs.
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Case Study
Reducing Time to Compliance With Automation: ESCATEC
Assent helped ESCATEC, an electronic and mechatronic design and contract manufacturing company, achieve compliance faster, increase supplier buy-in, and reduce the resources needed to meet customer needs.
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Assent has solutions to help electronics companies achieve compliance with all their requirements, including REACH, RoHS, and conflict minerals regulations.
Why Assent
The Assent Advantage
Assent does what no one else can. We’re the only platform made specifically for complex manufacturers. Our solution is built on electronics manufacturing industry best practices, so you can manage compliance data in a single platform across the company, prioritize high-risk suppliers for deeper screening or training, and mitigate supplier burnout through streamlined, scheduled data requests.
Industry Solutions for Complex Manufacturing
Discover how our automated supply chain sustainability management solutions help complex manufacturers see deeper, be smarter, and grow better.
Electronics Industry Resources
RoHS 2 Impact on the Electronics Industry
In its first iteration, the European Union (EU) Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive impacted the use of six substances in a range of electrical …
February 25, 2021
RoHS Enforcement: What Happens When Restricted Substances Are Found in a Product
In July 2020, Nikon Corporation issued a recall for its Nikon F6 film camera after finding that units sold on or after July 22, 2019, contained dibutyl phthalat …
August 4, 2020
Electronics Come Into Scope Under EAEU RoHS
On March 1, 2020, the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) brought into scope the Limitation of the Use of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronics Products …
May 5, 2020