Standards & Guidelines

The Standards and Guidelines Council provides member companies the opportunity to affect our industry in two ways; industry technical standards and supply chain guidelines and position papers. The Components Council identifies and addresses business process issues. These issues range from environmental regulations, EDI, trade compliance, and counterfeit parts. If there is an issue that affects our industry, the Components Council takes pro-active actions to influence new regulations and mitigate any negative effects.

The Standards and Technical Advisory Group provides technical standards for parts within our industry. They coordinate with other standards organizations to influence their actions on behalf of our industry.

 

Components Council

Through a non-competitive, collaborative effort, this council recognizes common, global problems and issues within the electronics industry, then formally organizes committees to address them and provide direction, guidance and benefit to everyone in the supply chain. The new Council group is responsible for identifying industry issues, assigning them to committees, managing the committee activities, publishing industry deliverables, and beginning the process of global networking.

 Objectives: 

• Establish industry value;
• Build consistency to the Committee Chairperson role;
• Expand the membership and depth fo the Components Council, Committee Chair's and Committee members;
• Build gloal alliances/expand collaboration;
• Market council activities and industry deliverables;

Implement an annual industry business planning process

Compliance & International Trade (CITC)

Since 9/11 and with a global economy, governments are creating ever more complex regulations for importing and exporting electronics. The CITC is comprised of representatives from ECIA member companies that are involved in trade compliance.

The landscape of international trade has changed significantly during the last few years. Changes in trade regulations have increased the level of complexity and the global market has grown to become a significant part of our business.

The goal of this committee is to propose industry standard procedures, forms, etc. that meet regulatory requirements. Committee meetings are an excellent forum to raise questions regarding regulations and discuss potential solutions.

 

Business Processes

The Business Processes committee is responsible for such items as EDI transaction sets, Supplier systems, info sharing, and other standards that facilitate coordinated business processes between suppliers, distributors, and customers.

 

Operations, Logistics, Transportation

This committee is responsible for those items that ensure effective movement and tracking of parts throughout the supply chain. These items will include Bar-coding, labeling, packaging, and freight.

 

Quality

The Quality committee resolves issues between trading partners that include such items as standards, traceability, certificates of conformance, failure analysis, supplier performance, metrics, and counterfeit parts.

 

Environmental Compliance

The environmental committee monitors the environmental regulations landscape and recommends to our industry actions that should be taken to either affect regulations prior to being issued or actions to mitigate the effects after they have been issues.

 

Assembly and Integration

Working with partner associations and customers involved in Assembly and Integration will make sure we are fully represented and have the opportunity to influence other portions of the supply chain.

 

Marketing

The marketing committee is responsible for making the website relevant, creating awareness of the council’s accomplishments and deliverables, and helping to drive global activities.