Add value to your First Article Inspection with the combination of IMDS and material.one
Both material.one (Supply Chain Collaboration Platform) and the International Material Data System IMDS (mdsystem.com) play an important role in the initial sampling process in the automotive industry supply chain.
Despite their different focus points, the two complement each other excellently and provide companies with a highly valuable source of information regarding their parts and materials.
One of the strengths of material.one is the digital creation of test plans for the materials used on the basis of the manufacturer's technical and physical standards (VDA Volume 2, IATF 16949). The test plans can be delegated to laboratories or suppliers for processing and quickly and automatically transmitted back to the client in material.one.
For many years, IMDS has been the platform for the global automotive industry to exchange data on assemblies, parts, semi-finished products and materials.
The use of materials in parts and semi-finished products and their pure composition in particular, enable automotive manufacturers and their supply chain to comply with national and international standards, laws, and regulations. Examples include the GADSL (Global Automotive Declarable Substance List), TSCA, REACH and SCIP.
material.one thus contains material information regarding the technical and physical content, while the IMDS manages, among other things, the pure composition of materials.
The use of IMDS in the automotive industry is more or less mandatory for suppliers. Without the documentation of assemblies (assemblies, parts, semi-finished products and materials) in the IMDS, it will not be possible to achieve complete sampling.
The IMDS interfaces make it possible to download the information stored there and supplement it with the corresponding information in material.one.
Conclusion
Companies that use both the IMDS and the material.one platform for their products for FAI thus have the excellent opportunity to combine the technical, physical world of the materials used with the regulatory view via the material.one platform.