Would you like to receive specialist training on material compliance topics, e.g. IMDS, REACH, CAMDS, conflict minerals, GADSL? Choose from a wide range of training courses that we offer as public seminars at our six locations in Germany and throughout Europe - or as webinars in which you can effectively develop the learning content on your own PC with a live trainer. Use the last three months of the year for one of our training courses.

The training schedule is available here as a PDF file

For companies that want to use IMDS-a2, we offer the training "Using IMDS-a2 efficiently" (No. 6140). Here the participants learn how to set up an individual usage environment, how to manually create and check material data sheets and how to create them automatically and effectively via the import function. You can use the MDB request function and are familiar with the associated dashboard, which provides convenient support for organizing and managing MDB requests, as well as the a2 Report

Since 2007, the European Chemicals Regulation for the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) has been in force in the EU. The regulation regulates the manufacture and marketing of chemicals. The regulation affects not only manufacturers but also downstream users - i.e. companies that do not manufacture these substances themselves but process them further. The first step was to register chemical substances at the ECHA (European Chemicals Agency). This took

Question 1:
On Mondays I always receive a message by e-mail about open requests. Although I work in our company as an administrator, I cannot see or find these requests in the IMDS in order to be able to react. What is the correct procedure?

Answer:
The mentioned requests were sent to you via the regulation wizard of the Chemistry Manager. In order to see and edit them in the IMDS, you must first enable access to the Chemistry Manager.

Please perform the following steps to do this:

1. log in as

Updated supplier information

The following companies have updated their supplier information:
Toyota
Mazda
Suzuki
General Motors

More information can be found at https://public.mdsystem.com/web/imds-public-pages/oem-specific-info

FCA US LLC - Part Number/Supplier Code Verification

Since June 29, 2018, the supplier code and/or part number are checked when FCA US is selected as the recipient. An error message is issued if the supplier code and/or part number cannot be found in the system. In this

1. "Analysis" tab in the IMDS details
   
   In the new "Analysis" tab, IMDS users can query the classifications, materials and substances used in the MDS as well as their aggregated weights and percentages. With release 11.1.1 (from August 31, 2018) of the IMDS-a2, it already contains a report that provides a summarized view of this screen.
   
   
2. Administration
   
   Company administrators have the option of directly administering all users of their own company via the menu entry "User maintenance" under

The European End-of-Life Vehicle Directive (ELV) and the German End-of-Life Vehicle Ordinance, as well as other regulations such as REACH and RoHS, stipulate which substances may be utilized in cars and/or are prohibited. The German Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) issues type approval on the basis of existing data sheets. The current cases of VW and Streetscooter show how important complete and accurate information is.

Cadmium was discovered in a high-voltage charger in electric

As already explained in our blog, due to the DSGVO the contact persons in the IMDS have to agree to the use of their data. Problems occurred at some companies and contact persons were deactivated. Therefore the team of DXC Technology has again sent an e-mail to company administrators and contact persons stored in the system. This explains how contact persons can be (re-)activated:

The new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) introduces new data protection rules. These can also be found in IMDS since release 11.1. For example, all persons registered as contact persons in the IMDS were contacted and asked to agree to the use of their data. This is what this email looks like:

If you would like to continue receiving inquiries as an IMDS contact person, you should click on the personalized link within 30 days. Otherwise, the data will be deleted and you would have