EDA tool suite optimized for RoHS, WEEE

"EDA vendor EMA Design Automation Thursday (Dec. 8) released a tool suite designed to help engineering teams create products complaint with the European Union's restriction of hazardous substances (RoHS) and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) directives. The Engineering Data Management (EDM) suite is a database management system that provides detailed control over all product design data, with specific emphasis on environmental compliance material content, according to EMA (Rochester, N.Y.). The EDM environment supports various versions of RoHS data including both RoHS 5 (NIE exemption) and the general RoHS 6 requirements, EMA said. The EDM system can manage all relevant product design data including both electrical and mechanical computer aided design with the capability to create RoHS/WEEE reporting documentation, the company said." SOurce: eetimes.com