Component Substances

You can use the Component Substances tab to view, edit, add, and remove substances from the material or compliance process.

For a compliance process, there is no quantity information for the component substance. Materials Compliance Management uses "Unknown" as the quantity value.

Required access roles:

  • Baseline: Author, Leader
  • App-specific: Compliance Engineer, Senior Compliance Engineer

To access this page:

  1. Open the Composition PowerView for the required material or compliance process. For more information, see Composition PowerView Tabs.
  2. Click the Component Substances tab.

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If any component substance uses the Unknown quantity type, none of the other component substances can use the Fill quantity type. If any component substance uses the Fill quantity type, none of the other components can use the Unknown quantity type.

For a compliance process, you only see the Name/title, CAS Number, and EC Number columns.

Column Name Description
Name/Title The substance or compliance process name or descriptive title.
CAS Number The CAS number of the substance or compliance process.
EC Number An identifier used as an alternative to the CAS number.
Confidential Yes or No to indicate whether the substance is confidential.
Target Weight The target weight of the substance. When the unit of measurement is range, shows min and max. When the Quantity Type is Fill and the unit of measurement is range, the min and max values show the same value as the calculated target quantity.
Weight U of M The weight unit of measurement.

Value Description
% (range) Allows you to enter min and max target weight values. If Target Weight contains a single value, an error is displayed. The target value is computed and saved in addition to the min and max values for the substance.
% (percent) Allows you to enter a single target weight value. If Target Weight contains min/max values, an error is displayed. The app uses the target value to set the min and max values for the substance.
PPM Parts per million.

Quantity Type How the Target Weight is calculated:

Value Description
Fill The app calculates the target weight when you click Save. Only one substance in the list can have Fill selected.

When using Fill, all components must use either percentage, range, or PPM as the Weight Unit of Measure.

Specified Enter a value for target weight.
Unkown Only shows if IPC 1754 is enabled and your Business Administrator has enabled Unknown as a quantity type. When selected, the app uses the minimum and maximum values for rolling up compliance.

Type The type of object, which is Substance.
Intentionally Added Indicates whether the substance is intentionally added.
Compliance Type and its Applications The compliance type and any applications (exceptions) for a compliance type. To select the multiple exemptions use the Ctrl key.
Purpose The purpose of substance in a material can be one of the following: Intended Use, Reactive Residue, or Impurity.
Intentionally Released Indicates whether the substance is intentionally released.
REACH Reg Status Indicates whether the substance has been registered for REACH.
REACH Pre-Reg Status Indicates whether the substance has been pre-registered for REACH.
Description The description of the substance.

Actions/Toolbar Commands

Action Description
Add Existing Adds an existing substance. You must first click Edit All .
Remove Removes the substance from the list but does not delete it from the database.
Edit All / View All Toggles between edit and view mode.