Abstract
In dealing with environment protection issues and becoming “greener”, electronic product manufacturers need a set of effective “Hazardous Substance Management System”. Implementing such system is one of the top priorities of any business nowadays. With this system, we can not only monitor and control the hazardous substance produced during production process and reach the goal of “zero hazardous substance”, but also increase the enterprise competitiveness, and expand market scales.The goal of this research is to study the ways to avoid suffering from the legal penalties for not complying with applicable laws, by monitoring and controlling raw material, managing supply chain, be if informed with related regulation changes, and building up product and raw material/component database. Management system is set up for the Products to undergo tests to prove they are in compliance with RoHS requirements. In this way, the risks for the claimed product to contain hazardous substance can be dramatically lowered. It is strongly suggested that companies should fulfill their “due diligence” by acquiring QC 080000 quality system and make the products pass examination tests to minimize risks and meet the international green product requirements.This research shows how a medium-size MEMS company can build a set of QC 080000 management system and satisfies the requirements of customer or internationally recognized green products. By using the “RoHS Hazardous Substance Management System” based on QC 080000, the “Product Environment Risk Database” can be created and process set up for the monitoring and controlling critical points to lower the management risks of the green products. For different industry, as long as the industry and technology differences are identified and the system modified accordingly, the setup time for green product management can be effectively reduced. The advantage of using “Product Environment Risk Database” in controlling hazardous substance is that the raw materials/components in need of reexamination will be highlighted when RoHS is updated and the lead time and cost can be effectively reduced.