QC 080000 IECQ HSPM An Executive Overview HSPM2006

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QC 080000 IECQ HSPMAn Executive
OverviewHSPM2006

• Chip Evans, President CEO
• Dennis Bradley, VP - Business Development

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Executive Overview

• Assumes audience knows very little about the
  topic and the circumstances
• Please forgive hearing stuff you know
• Portrays the Big Picture
• Identifies context and trends
• Short on technical specifics
• Highlights whats important
• Touches on past, present and future

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Topics

• Industrys Challenge
• Industrys First Steps
• Todays Mess
• Future Dynamics
• Help for Global Business
• IEC and IECQ
• QC 080000 IECQ HSPM

• Certification Advantages
• Where to Start
• Introduction to SBGi
• SBGi and IECQ
• SBGi and Affiliates

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Industrys Challenges

• EU Reduction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS)
• Six identified substances
• Noncompliance creates liabilities (legal and
  financial) endangers EU market access
• EU WEEE, China (China 11 and 12) and California
  (SB50 and proposed AB2202)
• Uncertain requirements and enforcement

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Industrys First Steps (1)

• Questionnaires
• reported average is 40 pages!
• Supplier Audits
• Assembling component and sub-system databases
• Self-declarations
• Officer signatures
• Sampling for test
• variability higher than imagined

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Industrys First Steps (2)

• Testing, testing and more testing
• Whats coming into production
• Whats being added
• Whats being used in process
• Whats coming out
• Huge investments of time and resources
• Denial
• Wait and See strategies

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Todays Mess

• Testing capacity and expertise insufficient
• Testing product samples is proving problematic
• Self-declarations proving questionable
• Be a Manager, Go to Jail emerging

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Future Dynamics (1)

• Concern will grow
• Likely to be fragmented Cause du jour
• Governments and regulatory agencies will respond
  laws and regulations will proliferate
• Perhaps in a similarly fragmented fashion
• Noncompliance will attract harsher consequences
• Be a Manager, Go to Jail emerging
• Financial and personal
• Exemptions will be reduced
• More industry segments will be affected and
  included

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Future Dynamics (2)

• RoHS WEEE-like regulations will expand
• More hazardous substances
• RoHS WEEE-like regulations will evolve
• Current weight flaws will be addressed
• Issues raised and solutions proposed will extend
  beyond borders
• Other Governments and Industry will need to be
  considered and part of the conversation
• Some Governments will adopt regulations whose
  true intent is to protect their business community

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Future Dynamics (3)

• HSF is a global issue requiring global solutions
• All involved will need to seek systemic
  approaches and solutions
• HSF status will become a component of required
  financial disclosures
• Courts will soon become involved
• There will be market disruptions
• Standards organizations will play a vital role

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Help for Global Business

• The World Trade Organization recognizes only
  three international standards bodies
• ISO International Organization of
  Standardization
• ITU International Telecommunications Union
• IEC International Electrotechnical Commission

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IEC and IECQ

• Dennis will share from IECQ materials
• IEC IECQ Structure
• IECQ Mission, Member Bodies,
• QC 080000 IECQ HSPM history
• Key Contributors
• IECQ HSPM and ISO 9001
• Three approaches to HSF

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QC 080000 IECQ HSPM (1)

• A Common Sense Approach
• Moves from product to process focus
• Fully characterized and understood processes
  readily yield information usable for compliance
• Moves from self-declarations to third-party
  assessment and certification to an
  internationally accepted Standard
• Expandable, adaptable framework for future

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QC 080000 IECQ HSPM (2)

• Compatible and complimentary to many existing
  standards and approaches
• Makes use of known conventions (ISO) already in
  widespread use
• Changes the currency in the supply chain from
  extensive, expensive testing and audits to a
  credible certificate indicating well understood,
  controlled processes

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Certification Advantages (1)

• Companies achieving IECQ HSPM Certification will
• Improve operational results
• Reduce compliance costs
• Preserve access to global markets
• Improve supply chain management
• Perhaps improve suppliers
• Reduce legal liability

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Certification Advantages (2)

• Companies achieving IECQ HSPM Certification will
• Gain competitive advantage
• Assure compliance with laws and highest industry
  standards
• Indicate companys desire to be world-class and
  to do the right thing!

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Where to Start (1)

• Key executives and operations managers need to
  become aware of laws and HSPM
• Operations managers and key employees need to
  know more to become Implementers
• Selected employees need to be educated and
  certified as Internal Assessors

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Where to Start (2)

• Get expert help to do a Gap Assessment
• Executive knowledge, Customer requirements,
  Design process, Supply chain, Material mgt.,
  Operations, Finished Goods Management, Internal
  Training.
• Develop Implementation Plan
• Prepare and assist suppliers to begin process
  toward IECQ HSPM certification

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Introduction to SBGi

• SBGi helps producers of electronic and electrical
  products prepare for certification to
  international standards that demonstrate their
  ability to meet customer and regulatory
  requirements anywhere in the world.
• Founded 2005, info at www.sbgicorp.com
• Silicon Valley roots
• computers, semiconductor, software, test equipment

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SBGi and IECQ

• SBGi is uniquely qualified to help companies
  achieve certification in IECQ HSPM
• Staff of experts
• Originating authors are SBGi Team Members
• SBGi developed and licenses the only IECQ
  Recognised HSPM training for Implementers and
  Assessors.
• Every Certified HSPM Assessor took SBGi training

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SBGi and Affiliates
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SBGi Institute LLC

• SBGi Institute LLC delivers training related to
  standards certification and enterprise
  optimization in a wide array of process and
  quality improvement disciplines.
• President CEO Randy Canfield
• CTO Bob Chapman

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SBGi Advisors LLC

• SBGi Advisors LLC provides consulting services to
  prepare clients for IECQ HSPM certification and
  other standards-related process management
  improvements.
• CEO Susan Bowman
• President and COO Wynn Bowman

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SBGi Technologies LLC

• SBGi Technologies LLC develops, markets, sells
  and supports customized workflow software to
  support IECQ HSPM and other process improvement
  and quality management software.
• Lead by SBGi Corporation Executives

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SBGi

• Better Processes.
• Better Business.
• Better World.
• What you do matters.
• Were here to help!