What if you could reduce the cost for chemical testing and, at the same time, get adequate test results? We launched a new feature that enables you to do just that: CHAMP.
CHAMP, a Chemical Assessment Management Platform, is new ProductIP functionality. It intelligently helps you and your supplier identify chemical risks and save on testing costs.
Managing the chemical chapter of product compliance legislation is often the most challenging part. Most problem owners are not trained chemists. The effects of non-compliance are mostly not directly visible; unless it becomes a sales stop! We aim to get you back into control. CHAMP extends the Bill of Material (BOM) function in the ProductIP technical files. When you build a Bill of Material, you enter details of the parts, the materials used, and the user’s exposure to that component. We know what product it is; we know the Member States you will sell it in. Based on that information, the intelligent database is working for you, eliminating what is not a risk and highlighting what you should be testing. The chemical risk assessment of CHAMP in combination with those test results could be the basis of the assumption of compliance with that part of the applicable legislation.
CHAMP works when your supplier, and their suppliers, are well organised. They should feed you with information to build a detailed Bill of Material. Without quality information, the result will be as you have today. In that case, you are wasting money trying to test (random) samples created out of apparent chaos resulting in a poor quality of evidence. That is not what you want.
What does it cost?
The better question is, “What will it bring?” We have seen significant savings that are realised at every shipment. But, of course, the pre-condition is quality information being available. We cannot create magic out of thin air.
Each technical file has a tab called Bill of Material. CHAMP is part of that. So you built a Bill of Material, and when you are ready, you activate CHAMP. The system then performs a detailed chemical assessment against our intelligent database. This document is part of your compliance evidence in the ProductIP technical file.
Additionally, it is a fantastic basis for communication with laboratories when asking them to quote for testing. Some testing will still be required. It is necessary to monitor chemical risks that can occur during manufacturing. The ideal alternative is that the supplier monitors these during mass production as well!
The budget for CHAMP is the same as you would pay for creating a technical file as Pay As You Go or Enterprise user.
