Meeting the World’s Automotive End-of-Life Regulations with Digital Product Definitions

In the face of global environmental pressures, automotive manufacturers contend with increasingly stringent regulations for end-of-life vehicle tracking and reporting compliance. Countries the world over are more strictly regulating what types and amounts of substances and materials can be built into automobiles. These materials can include metals, composites, adhesives, coatings and sealants. End-of-life vehicle and ROHC regulations for electronics manufacture require that all materials must be reported and tracked to ensure that banned substances are not utilized in the design and manufacture of vehicles. As a result, this places a huge, complex burden on automobile engineers who must make critical design decisions to comply with global materials regulations.

Through digital product definitions, VISTAGY provides a means for assisting design engineers in the selection, tracking and automated reporting of the types and amounts of materials used in vehicle manufacture. As part of the digital definition process, VISTAGY’s specialized engineering software products, powered by our unique EnCapta® technology, enable engineers to automatically link to materials libraries and databases to select substances, and associate important detail and materials information directly to a 3D CAD product model.

By capturing this detailed information very early in the design process, manufacturers can assess their materials decisions and more efficiently make changes to meet reporting requirements of various OEMs—all within a single design methodology. In addition, VISTAGY software solutions help engineers automatically generate bills of materials, reports, or other documentation directly from information stored in the CAD model, and efficiently share that information downstream, across the enterprise or around the world in order to track materials and satisfy regulations. VISTAGY’s specialized engineering software:

• Guides materials selection to meet global compliance requirements;
• Provides immediate feedback on substance requirements decisions during design process;
• Supports all interfaces to industry databases and materials libraries;
• Supports automated generation of reports and documentation from a single design process;
• Helps engineers share critical design detail across the enterprise or the global supply chain to report on and track substances.