Term

Meaning

BOM

Bill of Materials. A comprehensive inventory of the raw materials, assemblies, subassemblies, parts, and components, as well as the quantities of each needed to manufacture a product.

BOM Leaf

BOM component which does not have any sub-assemblies

Circular Economy

An economic model that aims to minimize waste and maximize resource efficiency by promoting the recycling, reuse, and repurposing of materials.

CoC

Certificate of Compliance. A document confirming that a product meets a specific regulatory standard.

Ecodesign

Ecological design is an approach to designing products and services that gives special consideration to the environmental impacts of a product over its entire lifecycle.

EHS

Environmental, Health, and Safety. In simple terms it is what organizations must do to make sure that their activities do not cause harm to anyone.

EMS

Environmental Management System. A framework used by organizations to identify, manage, and continuously improve their environmental performance.

EOL

End of Life. End of life impacts include demolition and processing of waste or recyclable materials.

EPA

The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent executive agency of the United States federal government tasked with environmental protection matters.

EPD

Environmental Product Declaration. An EPD is a so-called type III environmental declaration that is compliant with the ISO 14025 standard.

FMD

Full Material Declaration/Disclosure. List of substances and their proportions in a given product.

GHG

Greenhouse Gas Protocol provides the accounting standards for greenhouse gas emissions.

GWP

Global Warming Potential. Developed to allow comparisons of the global warming impacts of different gases.

IPC

The Institute of Printed Circuits (IPC). IPC maintains a schema for material data exchange for the electronics industry. A file that pertains to that schema is called an IPC file and comes in XML format.

LCA

Life Cycle Assessment/Analysis. LCA is a methodology for measuring the environmental impact of a process, product, or service.

MCDA

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis. MCDA is concerned with structuring and solving decision and planning problems involving multiple criteria, which is useful when performing a Life Cycle Assessment.

PCF

Product Carbon Footprint

PCR

Product Category Rule. Defines rules on how to prepare an Environmental Product Declaration for a given product category. Keep in mind that PCRs can be either documents uploaded to Makersite from a trusted third-party, or objects defined within Makersite itself – typically when no third-party definitions exist.

PEF

A methodology by the European Commission’s Joint Research Center (JRC), essentially a proposed EU standard for Life Cycle Assessment.

PLM

Product Lifecycle Management. The process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its inception through the engineering, design and manufacture, as well as the service and disposal of manufactured products.

REACH

Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals. European RSL related to chemical substances, considered at a product level.

RoHS

Restriction of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment. European directive aiming to restrict harmful substances in electronic components.

RSL

Restricted Substance List. This is an act of law by a regulating body, which defines substances completely or partially banned from use, as well as possible exemptions from these rules.

You can verify both product groups as well as substances and substance groups against RSLs in Makersite.

Scope 1

These are the emissions from operations that are owned or controlled by the company that’s doing the reporting.

Scope 2

Emissions that a company causes indirectly and come from where the energy it purchases and uses is produced.

Scope 3

Scope 3 Greenhouse gas emissions are all indirect emissions (not included in Scope 2) that occur in the value chain of the reporting company, including both upstream and downstream emissions.

SKU

Stock Keeping Unit. A distinct type of item for sale, purchase, or tracking in inventory. Typically tracked using bar codes. In Makersite, a Product is an SKU.