The Substance Risk Detection app is a heuristic based approach to grade Bills of Materials, IPC files, and supply chains for regulated substances. It is a fast track to identify substance risk not only in the foreground system but along the entire supply chain.

The Substance Risk Detection app highlights all substances that are included in a regulatory list and are part of the supply chain of the analyzed Product Group.

If a substance is detected, it does not automatically mean that a noncompliance is present, it only determines a likelihood. E.g. Teflon might be regulated in several RSL’s but if it is not bio-available, it is fully compliant. Makersite offers the user therefore a simple tool to immediately identify risks and to assess them. The concentration of a substance is not considered in this application, but in the Chemical Grading app. More information can be found in the Chemical Grading article on the Makersite FAQ pages.

More than 30 substance regulatory list such as Prop 65, REACH, Rohs… are included in Makersite and are updated regularly, when changes to the list are made publicly available.

Custom / organization specific / domain specific lists can easily be added by the user through the RSL Importer. In the case lists are publicly available and accessible for update automation Makersite can take over the maintenance of the lists. For more information on the RSL Import please see the Import a Compliance List article on the Makersite FAQ pages.

The complete overview of all RSL lists and the regulated substances is available in the Data Explorer in the folder called 'Regulatory lists'.

Open the Ball Pen Product Group in the 'Substance Risk Detection' app in Makersite and review the results.

Import the 'Ball Pen' BOM. If this tutorial has been completed already, skip to Step 2, if not please follow the Import a BOM tutorial in the Makersite FAQ pages.

Note: A BOM import before conducting the Substance Risk Detection is not necessary. You might be interested in analyzing a generic supply chain already in Makersite or a model a colleague has set up. Just search and open the Product Group and change to the Substance Risk Detection app.

Once the Ball Pen BOM has been imported and mapped, you can select the 'Substance Risk Detection' app from the 'Regulations' section of the Makersite apps, on the Dashboard.

Or you can open the Product Group by using the Search Bar at the top of the Makersite page. With the Ball Pen Product Datasheet page open, click on the Makersite app menu in the top left corner of the page, choose the 'Regulations' heading and then select the 'Substance Risk Detection' app from the list.

Type the Product Group name into the search bar, for this example we will use the Ball Pen.

After selecting the Product Group the Substance Risk Detection app will open and show the Graph view. There may be a lot of information shown depending on the size of the model, each entity in the Graph view can be moved by clicking and dragging.

The key for the graph is located in the lower left corner of the page.

Green: Product Groups

Yellow: Processes

Red: Regulations are present

If you click on any regulated substance or on the red regulation marker the Information and Tool panel will provide you with detailed information about the applicable regulations for the material/substance.

The whole view is intended to give you fast overview about areas of significance and to allow you to focus on relevant areas in your supply chain. Like the Sankey functionality you can use the Information and Tool panel to drill into more details of your supply chain.

The structure of the graph view starts from the centre, this is the top level of the Product Group, in this instance it is the Ball Pen. The Graph then moves outwards by BOM level, the next level down contains the components that make up the Ball Pen assembly, Cap, Grip, Ink Chamber etc.

The final level in this example contains the materials which the components are made from, Polyethylene, Latex etc. this is where regulations will be attached as they usually refer to individual materials.

The structure will match the imported BOM, this example has three levels, a more complex product may have many more, but the Graph structure can be easily traced between levels and components using the arrows that connect each level.