Electronics Manufacturers Want Lead-free Parts Numbers
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HERNDON, VA-The International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI) says its member companies are asking for unique parts numbers for components that are compliant with laws restricting the use lead and other hazardous substances in places like California, China and Western Europe.
"Demonstrating and certifying compliance with [these laws] is a complex undertaking made more difficult by the electronics industry's distributed design and manufacturing supply chains," iNEMI says. "Industry must have means of differentiating compliant products that is common across all of the companies involved in, or contributing to, product manufacture."