This standard, which is expected to be published by IPC this quarter, establishes uniform electronic data formats and standardized forms to simplify the way industry collects, tracks and discloses material content information.  IPC-1752 is intended to reduce the cost and complexity of RoHS compliance, while increasing data quality and decreasing response times.

The following companies have committed to implementing processes for material composition data exchange that will be based on IPC-1752: Agile, Celestica, E2open, Foxconn, Jabil Circuit, Lucent Technologies, PCNalert, PTC, Sanmina-SCI, Speedline Technologies, Solectron, Sun Microsystems, Teradyne, Texas Instruments and Tyco Electronics.                                  

A number of other iNEMI member companies have played an active role on the iNEMI materials declaration projects as well as the IPC 2-18 Subcommittee that developed IPC-1752.   These firms will be evaluating IPC-1752 for incorporation into their materials declaration processes. www.inemi.org.