Chicago-based distributor, Newark InOne has introduced a quality assurance policy to help customers reduce risks associated with the RoHS directive. The program comes in response to statements from United Kingdom (UK) RoHS enforcer agency, the National Weights and Measures Laboratory. The agency recently noted that producers shipping product to the UK after the RoHS deadline of July 1, 2006 will need to show more than certificates of compliance from the supplier whose components make up the product. The producer will also need to demonstrate that it has taken “reasonable steps” to confirm the accuracy of the documentation it receives for the parts designed into or assembled into the finished product.
To meet this requirement, Newark InOne and its sister European distributor, the UK-based Farnell InOne, have developed a 10-step quality assurance policy that includes due diligence procedures designed to offer customers confidence in the RoHS-compliance of parts received from the two distributors.
Against a backdrop of mounting product complexity and a need to keep a lid on development costs, companies are recognizing a need to make simulation a more integral part of the design process. In response, vendors in the CAD world are building out CAE functionality as part of their CAD suites while simulation vendors are building tighter integrations to leading CAD tools. Keith Meintjes, Ph.D., Practice Manager, Simulation and Analysis at CIMdata, Inc., joins Design News CAD Editor Beth Stackpole in this radio program to explore the new face of integrated CAD and CAE, how companies are benefitting from this tighter partnership between platforms, and how integrating CAE earlier in the development cycle pays off in optimized product designs.
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