TPP Newsletter - Jan '09

Wednesday, February 18, 2009






		May 4 - 7 Aging Aircraft Conference Kansas City, MO www.agingaircraft2009.com

		September 21 - 24 DMSMS Conference Orlando, FL www.dmsms2009.com

Dear valued TPP users,

We are excited to introduce this new publication in order to keep you informed of upcoming events, conferences, and new features as they are developed. As such, TPP would like to thank each and every one of you for your continued support. We value your feedback and TPP’s improvements can be attributed to your suggestions. Over the past year we have added new functions and features such as the new Part Alias Technology™. Also, be sure to take note of the new Environmental Report that has been added for your convenience. Better yet, how about the new PCN daily text file alerts. Not to mention the recent addition for REACH/SVHC and Halogen-free flagging.

We have also extended the TPP family with new resellers to not only expand our territory, but to make TPP more accessible to you! Customer satisfaction has and will remain our top priority. TPP would like to welcome our newest resellers Standards and More and Exodus Communication & Technologies Ltd. We realize the importance of providing various options for user support and are always looking to increase our availability here and abroad.

Keep your eyes open for new improvements coming soon to Total Parts Plus! We are kicking off 2009 with upcoming functions such as adding Substance/Material Search capability to identify which of your Bills of Material contain substances of concern. Plus, thanks to your requests, we are in the development of adding a new Export feature for full material disclosure! These are just 2 new features to be added during the first quarter of 2009. There are many more to come!

Thank you again for all of your contributions that make Total Parts Plus the preferred provider for obsolescence and material content solutions.

“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress,
and working together is success." - Henry Ford



	NEW USER FRIENDLY FEATURES!
	REACH/SVHC and Halogen-free flagging This new feature identifies the 15 named Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) under the European Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and restriction of Chemicals Reach legislation. Additionally, Halogen-free products will be flagged and tracked for reporting purposes. Users will be able to submit any board-level electronic component through Total Parts Plus' web application and generate the named material, weights and measures required for REACH reporting. PCN daily text file alerts Users may now elect to receive a daily text notification on any new PCNs and/or PDNs that are posted. An expansion of the current PCN Alert configuration, the daily text option provides additional preferences for receiving alerts beyond exact matches and alternates. For example, users may elect to include wildcard matches. New Environmental Report In response to the increased request to combine obsolescence data with RoHS compliance information, TPP has added the “RefPN Flag/Process Information” report to the Material Content Analysis dropdown. The new environmental report includes part status, reference PN availability and end-of-life information fields to the RoHS compliance and lead finish data. Part Alias Technology™ A high performance analysis, this tool cleanses and identifies part number matches for unknown parts. A new enhancement to the Parts Plus application eliminates incomplete reporting and analysis due to these unknowns. The user-friendly interface ensures that all AVL/BOM parts are recognized for attributes such as obsolescence status, lifecycle, PCN's, secondary sources, RoHS compliance status and declaration information.

	COMING SOON...
	New Export feature for full material disclosure – capability to download the 3-tiered hierarchy for full materials disclosure including subcomponent, substances, mass and more! New Substance/Material Search – ability to search for specific substances of concern within your BOMs, whether restricted or reportable, by name or CAS numbers!



	Total Parts Plus would like to introduce our newest Resellers.

	SAM - Standards and More Standards and More joined TPP to cover the territories of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. SAM provides a technical documentation service for various standards and guidelines on a subscription basis as well as obsolescence management solutions. Additional information about Standards and More… is available at http://www.standardsandmore.com/de/. Exodus Communication & Technologies Ltd TPP has partnered with Exodus Communication & Technologies Ltd whom manages our accounts within Israel. EXODUS is a fast growing group which offers consulting and services for business development, supply chain solutions and outsourcing programs. For more information, please visit: http://israel-semiconductors.blogspot.com.




	Did you know that you can drastically reduce the number of unknown components in your account by using the new Part Alias Technology feature? Total Parts Plus’ Part Alias Technology allows users to create and “alias” bill of materials (BOM) from the unknown components in each BOM loaded in the account and receive a list of all close matches that the user can quickly update their BOM with by replacing the incomplete or incorrect components with the known data from the Alias BOM list.



	If you would like training on the new Part Alias Technology feature, please contact Mark Gutierrez at: 850.244.7293 ext. 250 or mark.gutierrez@totalpartsplus.com.



	NEW! FREE WEBINARS!
	TPP is now offering a series of free 10-15 minute webinars! These short presentations are open to any interested parties, whether a TPP subscriber or not! The topics for the January series are “Is Compliance within your REACH?” and “What about Halogen –free?” With the new REACH regulation you will be required to report any of the 15* named substances in your products within 45 days to anyone that asks, including environmental groups. The webinars will cover the new SVHC and Halogen-Free flagging functionality within TPP. Additionally, each session will be followed by a 10-15 minute question and answer session with our environmental compliance experts. Upcoming dates for these sessions are: February 24th – 2:00pm EST / 11:00am PST March 10th – 2:00pm EST / 11:00am PST If you are interested in attending either session, please email customerservice@totalpartsplus.com. Please be sure to include the name of your organization, the number of attendees, identify contact names and e-mail addresses for all attendees and the preferred date for attendance. Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and restriction of Chemical substances also known as REACH. The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has named 15 substances of very high concern (SVHC) which may require notification and authorization if your article contains any of these substances. Article 33 of the regulation states that if you ship an article (your product) that includes an SVHC* (>0.1%w/w) you must “provide the recipient of the article with sufficient information to allow safe use of the article including, at a minimum, the name of the substance.” Manufacturers will be given 45 days from the time of the request to provide safety information for the SVHC’s present in their articles. *SVHC substance list - http://echa.europa.eu/chem_data/candidate_list_table_en.asp