NEWS

06-Mar-2023

We are glad to announce that TVS Motor has joined the IMDS as OEM (Company ID 157337).

03-Mar-2023

A new IMDS Steering Committee guidance document is now available in the FAQ section System Usage. 

27-Feb-2023

Recommendation 001 General Rules and Guidelines was updated and will be valid in IMDS from May 27, 2023. You can find the Recommendation after login to the IMDS under Help -> Recommendation.

17-Feb-2023

On March 3, 2023 the latest Update of the GADSL will be carried out in IMDS.

GADSL Update

15-Feb-2023

Two changes to SC90 checks were implemented in IMDS. These changes are already listed in the check message document (which also includes the IMDS Release 14.0 check changes) available in the IMDS FAQ.

Allow Silver >80% in glass (classification 7.2)

Currently, a warning is shown in the check result in case a material of classification 7.2 contains >80% metallic substances (substance group “Chk: Classification 1-4”).
To allow the creation of conductive glass materials, which may contain more than 80% of silver, the following change will be implemented: 

• A new substance group “Chk: Classification 1-4 w/o silver” will be created, which will contain all metallic substance except for silver.
• The existing check will be adapted to refer to this new substance group. Thereby, silver will be excluded from the existing check and materials of classification 7.2 may contain an unlimited portion of silver.

Allow Iron >14% in all metals (classifications 1.x – 4.x)

Currently, a warning is shown in the check result in case a material of classification 2.x – 3.x or 4.1 contains >14% iron.
To allow a reasonable portion of iron in different alloys (e.g., nickel alloy classified as 3.4), all metallic classifications (1.x – 4.x) will be allowed for iron portions >14%.

03-Feb-2023

Mazda updated their IMDS Supplier information. You can find more information in the section "OEM Specific Information" > Mazda.
 

01-Feb-2023

With the changes of IMDS Recommendations 007, 008, 011 and 012 in September 2022, the IMDS Steering Committee removed several published materials from these recommendations, which were not defined by any norm. In a next step, these materials were decided to be hidden, as the IMDS Steering Committee can only take responsibility of materials that are described in norms. The Zentralverband Oberflächentechnik (ZVO), who supported in the creation of the surface treatments, offered to take over the responsibility and maintenance of the surface treatments they supported for the above mentioned Recommendations.

In January 2023, the surface treatments from ZVO have been moved to the company Zentralverband Oberflächentechnik [10216] and all other materials that have been removed from the above mentioned Recommendations have been hidden and cannot be further used in new MDSs. As the MDSs moved to ZVO are issuing warnings for used ranges, the IMDS Steering Committee decided to temporarily exempt the moved MDSs from IMDS checks, similat to the IMDS Standard Material suppliers. Therefore, Zentralverband Oberflächentechnik [10216] is temporarily added to the IMDS Standard Material suppliers and their MDSs are exempt from the IMDS checks.

The IMDS Steering Committee asks all suppliers in IMDS to not reject MDSs for the used ranges in materials by Zentralverband Oberflächentechnik [10216]. 

27-Jan-2023

The Joker-Playbook was added to the VW supplier guideline with background and application information on the IMDS function “confidential pure substances”.. More information can be found under OEM-specific info > Volkswagen.

20-Jan-2023

The following file contains a list of substances which were added to the REACH Candidate List of SVHCs and will be marked SVHC in IMDS on 3rd February 2023.

REACH Candidate List Update (SVHC) February 2023

12-Jan-2023

IMDS Helpdesk China Service Arrangement during Spring Festival

As 2023 Spring Festival approaches, we would like to inform you that the IMDS Helpdesk Service in China will be closed from Saturday, January 21st to Sunday, January 29th and will resume normal operation on Monday, January 30th, 2023. 

Spring Festival greetings to all of you and all the best in the Year of the Rabbit.