Design Chain Associates, LLC
Strategic and tactical Environmental Compliance and Performance services to all manufacturers. We help manufacturers understand, comply with and get ahead of environmental and social regulatory and customer requirements.
We help manufacturers in a variety of industries define, implement and troubleshoot internal product lifecycle management systems that result in compliant products.
DCA helps manufacturers understand, monitor and assess environmental regulations and related activities around the world including substance (RoHS, REACH, etc.), e-waste (WEEE, Batteries, Packaging), energy (ErP), climate change, and social requirements (Conflict Minerals) that impact product design and the supply chain. DCA's principal was a member of the California EPA Department of Toxic Substance Control's original Green Ribbon Science Panel, which advised on development of the Safer Consumer Products Regulations and is currently serving on the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute Governing Board.
We have decades of experience in the semiconductor and electronics industry, along with a wide variety of clients and expertise in the environmental performance area.
Design Chain Associates, LLC Postings
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English Translations of China RoHS-related Documents
Visit our China RoHS website www.ChinaRoHS.com for information about complying with the regulation as well as translations of the law, the standards, the FAQ and other items that are required for compliance....
Design Chain Associates' consulting services help you reduce product time-to-market, risks, and cost while increasing engineering and procurement efficiency. Through our knowledge and expertise in defining and applying best-practice business processe...
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May 20, 2005 | Design Chain Associates, LLC and EPTAC Corporation have educated three thousand people from over eleven hundred companies in the electronics industry throughout North America and the world on complying with environmental legislation and requirements like RoHS and WEEE.
Design Chain Associates Announces Availability of Standardized Part Numbering System
Jun 19, 2003 | Design Chain Associates, LLC, the leading Design Chain consulting firm, today announced the intent to issue an Internal Part Numbering (IPN) System Standard for use by PLM/PDM companies and their discrete manufacturing customers. The IPN standard is a simple, unintelligent numbering standard with major and optional minor levels of revision control intended to manage all the product-related needs of a manufacturing company.
