Full Material Disclosure
Full Material Disclosure (FMD) is a detailed homogeneous level substance / material breakdown of a product, component or material. The FMD information helps determine product compliance with environmental regulations and directives such as RoHS, REACH, and Conflict Minerals.
Having Full Material Disclosures enables companies to speed up the process of processing and delivering compliance documentation and overcome supply chain disruptions.Using FMDs instead of CoCs makes it easier to manage compliance changes in the future, as FMDs can demonstrate various compliance requirements. FMDs can be created by manufacturers by collecting material composition information from their supply chain. CoCs are only for specific regulations and versions.
Initially FMDs were used mainly by the electronics industry, but over time various other industries have adopted the FMD approach, to minimize the pressure on the changing needs of diverse regulations worldwide.
Our FMD-based compliance solutions provide
- Sourcing of Full Material Disclosure for off-the-shelf and custom parts covering various aspects such as substance identifiers, substance weight, and substance level exemptions.
- Maximum coverage of compliance information from suppliers, leveraging our multilingual supplier engagement team
- Validation of FMDs received from third-party suppliers to identify any errors or mismatches in declarations.
- Centralized platform to store FMDs and generate reports, with integration options to ERP or PLM Systems
Benefits of Full Material Disclosure
- Complete product data: Provides full information on substance composition, eliminating any risks of surprise elements on the inside or outside of a product.
- Be ready for future regulatory changes: Easy management of regulatory changes such as addition to the Prop 65 list or REACH SVHC candidate list (ECHA updates the SVHC list once every 6 months) or change in threshold levels for RoHS.
- Eliminates lead time and supplier fatigue: With an FMD, there is no need to check with suppliers each time regulatory requirements change.
- Reliable documentation: An FMD acts as a reliable supporting document to validate the CoC / compliance declaration provided by the suppliers, and hence makes your compliance program more reliable.
- The most feasible format to exchange FMDs is XML format. Different industries have adopted different international standards in this format. Each international standard has different capabilities, data requirements and industrial levels.
- IPC-1752A: Developed to support the data exchange requirements of REACH and RoHS. This has 4 classes – Class A, Class B, Class C and Class D.
- IPC-1754: This standard is for data exchange in aerospace and defence. It has 3 different classes – Class E, Class F and Class G.
- IEC 62474: Developed by the International Electrotechnical Commission. This enables users to exchange 100% of product information in XML format. and specifically covering the substances listed in the DSL.