QC080000 related basic concepts and definitions

Question 1: What is IEC?

IEC is the English abbreviation of the International Electrotechnical Commission. It is a non-governmental international organization. It was formally established in 1906. It is an earlier professional international standardization organization established in the world. It is responsible for international standardization in the electrical and electronic fields. The International Organization for Standardization works closely together.

Question 2: What is IECQ?

IECQ is the International Electrotechnical Commission's electronic component quality assessment system, which is affiliated to the International Electrotechnical Commission. It is the approval and inspection agency for the overall quality assessment of electronic components worldwide. It is responsible for the quality assessment of electrical products and materials and the production process. It is an international factory inspection organization that realizes the internationalization of specific product quality inspections within IEC and ISO.

Question 3: What is IECQ-HSPM?

HSPM stands for Hazardous Substance Process Management, Hazardous Substance Process Management. IECQ-HSPM is the general name of the hazardous material process management audit project developed by the International Electrotechnical Commission. This system is a hazardous substance process management system based on process management ideas. The main idea is to emphasize the application of a general "process management" model to solve the diversity of different enterprises and different products in response to the diversity of hazardous substance management requirements in different countries and regions, and to establish a unified international management standard and a durable and effective management system to help enterprises Overcome a wide variety of green trade barriers.

Question 4: What is HS?

HS stands for Hazardous Substance, a hazardous substance. In the definition of the IECQ-HSPM system, all substances regulated in the EU "Restriction of certain Hazardous Substance (RoHS)" and "Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)" are Hazardous substances, including lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, PBB and PBDE. Other hazardous substances stipulated in different regions and countries are also included according to their own or customer requirements. However, the RoHS directive is the basic item.

Question 5: What are RoHS and WEEE?

RoHS: Directive 2002/95/EC of the Europe Parliament and of the council of 27 January 2003 on the Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic equipment.

Regarding the prohibition of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment, Directive 20002/95/EC was issued by the European Parliament and the Council on January 27, 2003.

WEEE: Directive 2002/96/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 January 2003 on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment.

The Directive 2002/96/EC on Waste Electrical Equipment was issued by the European Parliament and Council on January 27, 2003.

RoHS and WEEE are two environmental protection directives issued by the European Union in 2003. The content controls the management of environmental impacts of electrical and electronic products during the production and disposal stages. RoHS controls products that contain a relatively large amount of hazardous substances in the production stage, while WEEE controls the rate and method that products must be recycled in the waste stage.

RoHS control: Large household appliances, Small household appliances, IT & Telecommunication equipment, Consumer equipment, Lighting equipment, Electronics and electrical appliances Tools (Electrical and electronic tools), toys, entertainment equipment (Toys), automatic dispensers (Automatic dispensers) and other eight categories of electrical and electronic products.

WEEE is more regulated than RoHS: medical equipment (Medical equipment system), monitoring and control equipment (Monitoring and control instruments) and other two major categories of electrical and electronic products.

Question 6: What is HSF?

HSF stands for Hazardous Substance Free, the reduction and exemption of hazardous substances (or non-hazardous substances). Many green environmental protection directives have HSF requirements.

Question 7: What is EIA/ECCB-954?

EIA is the Electronic Industries Alliance, the Electronic Industries Association, one of the American electronic industry standard setters. ECCB is the Electronic Components Certification Board, the American Electronic Components Inspection Committee. It is an accreditation body in the field of electronic and electrical appliances in the United States, which is equivalent to my country's National Inspection and Accreditation Supervision and Administration Commission (CNCA).

The full name of the CIA/ECCB-954 standard is Electrical and Electronic Components and Products Hazardous Substance Free Standard and Requirements. This standard was promulgated in March 2005 and is one of the reference standards for the IECQ-HSPM system audit.

Question 8: What is QC 080000?

QC 080000 is the technical standard number within IEC. QC 080000 is the current implementation standard of IECQ-HSPM system audit. This standard is written by the IEC on the basis of the EIA/ECCB-954 standard, so it is one of the international standards of the IEC system. The second edition of the standard was promulgated in October 2005, and once promulgated, it became the implementation standard of IECQ-HSPM. Enterprises must meet all the requirements of the QC 080000 standard and pass the audit of the IEC authorized supervision agency (Supervising Inspectorates, SI) before they can pass the IECQ-HSPM system inspection and obtain the inspection certificate.

Question 9: What is SI?

SI stands for Supervising Inspectorates, an authorized inspection agency. It is an organization authorized by IECQ to conduct all quality assessment activities within the IECQ system. At present, only 9 institutions in the world have obtained the qualification of IECQ supervisory agency.

Question 10: What is the relationship between QC 080000, EIA/ECCB 954, RoHS and WEEE?

QC 080000 is an international standard prepared by IEC on the basis of the American standard EIA/ECCB954, and is the implementation standard for the IECQ-HSPM hazardous substance process system audit. The purpose of the QC 080000 standard is to achieve the restriction requirements of various environmental protection directives on toxic and hazardous substances by implementing an effective management system for hazardous substances.

RoHS and WEEE, as environmental protection directives enforced earlier in the world, have made detailed regulations on the types and contents of harmful substances contained in various types of products. They are usually used as laboratory testing standards rather than management system standards. . QC 080000 is a management system technical specification that mainly refers to the requirements of RoHS and WEEE. By implementing QC 080000, companies can improve their own management system to meet and continue to meet the requirements of these two directives and other similar directives.

Question 11: Is the IECQ-HSPM QC 080000 certificate recognized globally?

Yes. IEC and IECQ are long-established international standards organizations. In fact, many ISO standards are produced in cooperation with IEC, among which the more famous are the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 series of standards. The IECQ-HSPM QC080000 certificate is issued by the IEC, IECQ and certification agencies. It can not only get unimpeded global mutual recognition, but also can greatly enhance your company's global competitiveness.

Question 12: Is the IECQ-HSPM QC 080000 factory audit mandatory?

no. This factory audit is similar to ISO9000 and is a voluntary factory audit. Governments of various countries do not require companies to pass this factory inspection. However, it does not rule out that some well-known companies in the world add this factory inspection requirement to project bidding or procurement bidding, just as ISO 9000 has been adopted as a mandatory requirement for bidding by more and more companies in recent years. In the current increasingly strict environmental regulations and increasingly fierce "green" competition environment, this trend is becoming more and more obvious.

Question 13: The relationship between IECQ-HSPM QC 080000 and ISO 9001:2000?

The relationship between IECQ-HSPM and QC 080000 standard is similar to the relationship between ISO quality management system and ISO9001:2000. IECQ-HSPM is the general name of the hazardous substance process management system, and QC 080000 is the implementation standard for the system audit. The QC 080000 standard is based on ISO9001:2000, not on the basis of ISO14001 as we might think. Because the system requires that EU regulations and customer requirements are defined as product quality-related characteristics, ISO9001:2000 can better ensure compliance with EU regulations from the perspective of process management and systems. QC 080000 clearly pointed out at the beginning that this standard is a supplementary requirement based on the current ISO 9001:2000 standard, in order to achieve a complete, systematic and clear management and control process, so as to achieve the goal of non-hazardous substances. QC080000 is based on ISO 9001:2000. These two standards and management systems are completely compatible. This can be seen from the correspondence between the terms of QC 080000 and ISO 9001:2000 and the terminology. The ISO9001:2000 organization has been implemented, and the hazardous substance process management system can be established on the basis of ISO9001:2000 based on EIA/ECCB-954 and passed the QC-080000 IECQ-HSPM audit.

Question 14: Is the audit process of IECQ-HSPM QC 080000 the same as ISO 9001?

Yes. The factory inspection process is very similar to ISO 9001, and both include document review and on-site audit during the first factory audit. As long as all the found non-conformities are improved, the auditor will issue an audit report and recommend certification. The certificate is valid for three years. After the certificate is issued, a regular supervision and audit will be carried out every year, and the certificate will be renewed every three years.

Question 15: What is the relationship between IECQ-HSPM QC080000 and ISO 14001?

QC 080000 is based on ISO 9001, not ISO 14001. However, like the relationship between ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, although the management philosophy is based on the PDCA cycle, the specific terms and requirements are slightly different. During the implementation of QC 080000, companies can use some of the essentials of the ISO 14001 environmental management system to supplement the deficiencies of ISO 9001 in the control of hazardous substances.

Question 16: In the implementation of IECQ-HSPM QC 080000, is it required that all products of the company must be free of hazardous substances?

no. Although QC 080000 is aimed at reducing and exempting hazardous substances, this standard does not require all products of the company to be non-hazardous. For example, companies can produce RoHS/WEEE-compliant products for export to the EU market, and at the same time produce traditional products for sale in markets that do not require RoHS/WEEE directives. However, all products containing hazardous substances must be strictly distinguished from products that do not contain hazardous substances to protect them from mixing or mutual contamination, and customers must be informed about the status of hazardous substances. This point is emphasized in IECQ-HSPM QC080000.