Materials Compliance Overview
Materials Compliance OverviewThe Materials Compliance process allows Lexmark to design for environmental compliance and to collect and analyze material and substance data from suppliers.
Part compliance information is collected from part suppliers through the creation of Manufacturer Equivalent Parts (MEPs).
A Lexmark Enterprise part may have multiple MEPs.
Compliance data from each supplier is associated with that suppler's MEP.
See Create Manufacturer Equivalent Part (MEP) and MEP Import Procedure.
Different methods are available to set which MEP is used for an Enterprise part in roll ups and reports. See Compliance Properties / MEP Selection.
Lexmark Design or Component Engineer requests Compliance data from suppliers with a Material Declaration request.
The request is made outside of ENOVIA, usually via email.
The Material Declaration request includes a file which pre-populates part data, standard material, and substance information in the Compliance Connect form that suppliers use to create the Material Declaration file (*.MCC).
The requesting Lexmark Design or Component Engineer receives the Material Declaration file (*.MCC) from the supplier and forwards it to a Compliance Engineer who imports the .MCC file into ENOVIA.
The importation of the .MCC file creates an ENOVIA Material Declaration in the Received state, connected to a Reported Part with the same name as the MEP.
Received Material Declarations are listed in ENOVIA: click > Materials Compliance > Received Material Declarations.
Material Declarations are reviewed and promoted to Accepted state when the Compliance data is deemed satisfactory.
Accepted Material Declarations are connected directly to the MEP.
The Compliance data is displayed on the MEP Compliance Properties and Compliance PowerView pages.
Final Analysis and Customer and / or Region-specific Compliance Reports may be run for the Accepted parts.