The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) fully recognizes that it is difficult to provide support for product testing to continuously and steadily ensure that products do not contain hazardous substances. It is necessary to control the product realization process and implement systematic management. To this end, the Electronic Components Quality Evaluation Committee (IECQ) under IEC has formulated a special hazardous substance process management standard - "Standards and Requirements for Hazardous Substance Reduction for Electrical and Electronic Components and Products (IECQ QC080000)" and procedural rules - "Hazardous Substance Process Management Requirements (QC001002-5)”, and officially launched the Hazardous Substance Process Management Certification, namely IECQ-HSPM Certification, which is currently the only certification in the world that fully combines the Hazardous Substance Reduction (HSF) management system and HSF customer/regulatory requirements. system.

IECQ-HSPM comprehensively reduces the risk of hazardous substances exceeding the standard

The IECQ QC080000 standard is based on the ISO9001:2000 quality management system. Its main point of view is to regard the content of hazardous substances as an important quality characteristic that must be met, and to achieve the requirements of environmental regulations based on the quality management system.

In the implementation of QC080000, the content of harmful substances such as lead can be regarded as a key quality characteristic of related materials, which needs to be considered in the design material selection stage, the material needs to be identified in the design verification, and the hazardous substances need to be distinguished during storage. The procurement process should ensure that this "quality characteristic" continues to meet the requirements.

The background of QC080000 is based on the concept of "it is impossible to obtain HSF products and establish HSF manufacturing process without the integration of effective management systems". Another important aspect of the standard is the systematic process approach.

The IECQ-HSPM system is a process management system for hazardous substances established based on the idea of process management. The purpose is to establish a green process by not using hazardous substances in design, introducing hazardous substances in manufacturing, and introducing hazardous substances in the supply chain, thereby comprehensively reducing harmful substances exceeding the standard. risk.

The process management approach is based on the "invariable" business processes in organizational management. Any enterprise may have quality requirements, environmental requirements, RoHS requirements, etc., but its core is the value-added business process, which is also the foundation of enterprise survival. All management of an organization revolves around its business processes to gain customer acceptance and continued purchases to gain value. The business process (process) of the organization is planned and adjusted based on the goals of the organization. The business process of the organization is the core object of various management. The requirements of QC080000, quality management system, environmental management system and occupational health and safety management system are respectively Apply the management approach requirements for hazardous substances, quality, environment and occupational health and safety to the organization's business processes so that all relevant aspects of the business process are considered together.

Considering and establishing RoHS risk-based control and process improvement on the basis of enterprise business processes, this is one of the starting points for implementing the QC080000 standard and can effectively reduce the risk of hazardous substances.

Apply the "process management" model to address the diversity of hazardous substance management requirements (including EU requirements) for different companies and different products, so that a common process management standard can be applied to all organizations that wish to meet EU requirements through management systems .

IECQ-HSPM system certification brings many benefits to enterprises

From a supply chain perspective, each organization's RoHS comes from within the organization on the one hand (such as lead soldering or the use of hazardous substances) and from the organization's suppliers on the other. In order to control the risk of harmful substances introduced from outside, many enterprises have taken corresponding measures according to their own conditions, such as adding incoming inspection items, configuring testing instruments, strengthening finished product testing, entrusting other testing institutions to conduct adequate testing, etc. These are what many companies can take immediately. Method. Going a step further, all suppliers may be required to provide test reports for hazardous substances.

Based on the commonly recognized international general hazardous substance process management system requirement QC080000, the third-party certification body promotes the enterprise to implement a comprehensive hazardous substance process control system through the certification system, and the certification results will greatly reduce repeated certification audits.

Organizations that have implemented ISO9001:2000 can establish a process management system for hazardous substances based on QC080000 on the basis of ISO9001:2000, and pass the certification of national supervision and inspection institutions (SI) under the IECQ framework, and issue certification with the IECQ logo. The system certification can prove that the hazardous substance reduction process meets the requirements of international standards.

Since IECQ-HSPM certification is a form of certification based on the control and management of a professional international organization (IECQ), with many years of electrical and electronic industry background and professional experience, passing IECQ-HSPM certification can bring the following benefits to enterprises:

The authority of the certification. IECQ is a quality assessment system for electronic components established by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). The certificate with the IECQ certification mark is authoritative in the world.

Customer influence. Through IECQ certification, the organization's continuous and stable process management and product quality will be released to the world through the "IECQ Online Certificate Database", and customers and potential customers will be informed of its differences from competitors.

effectiveness and efficiency. IECQ supports customers and suppliers in making significant and ongoing cost savings, reducing back-and-forth inspections, and ensuring product compliance with hazardous substances management with minimal inspection and administrative costs.

Passing the IECQ-HSPM system certification only proves that the company has established an effective management system for hazardous substances. This does not mean that testing and evaluation of hazardous substances is not required. If the management system certification of hazardous substances and product evaluation are combined, it will undoubtedly be more efficient. to be objective and effective. The product certification system of the IECQ system is the best embodiment of this idea: on the basis of the implementation of the QC080000 management system, combined with the detection of toxic and harmful substances, a complete evaluation of the control status of the organization's toxic and harmful substances can be carried out.

At present, the IECQ-HSPM product certification system is still in the brewing stage, and it is believed that the product certification for hazardous substances will be widely promoted due to the comprehensiveness of its evaluation.