IMDS Supplier Group Any other business CLEPA IMDS

IMDS Supplier Group Any other business CLEPA IMDS supplier group 05 November 2009 / XSU / Druckdatum © Continental AG

IMDS Advisory Group (I) Tasks * Consideration of supplier interests in IMDS * Negotiation with IMDS Steering Committee (e. g. on use conditions, checks, application codes, . . . ) * Participation in (some) IMDS Steering Committee meetings What we do * Approx. monthly meetings (phone conferences) to discuss latest issues * Define common standpoints of suppliers and communicate to SC "speak with one voice" * Coordinate actions with AIAG and JAPIA What we reached * Consideration of suppliers interests in e. g. - Use conditions - Recommendation 001 -. . . * We established good contact with SC "our voice is heard" IMDS Advisory Group is the mouthpiece of the CLEPA IMDS Suppliers Group Volunteers to participate in the work are always welcome Automotive Divisions Environmental Management in Product Development Niels Warburg 2

IMDS Advisory Group (II) Members of Advisory Group Louis-Sylvain Ayral Rupert-Walter Baur Peter Flanker Rainer Kurzknabe Michael J. Smith Niels Warburg Sylvia Assmann Birgit Schmidt CLEPA Ruth Zschiesche BASF ZF Marco Buczilowski Faurecia Denso Thomas Hagedorn Hella Dupont Alfred Pristl Mann&Hummel Delphi Thomas Stier Delphi Continental Rainer Weber Henkel Bosch Bibiana Prazenicova JCI Brose Anne-Marie Lossy Pierburg Automotive Divisions Environmental Management in Product Development Niels Warburg 3 Kate Everitt GKN Helmut Bunke-Lude Daniel Hepp Woco Stephan Schöne Fred Twardon Peter Weidinger Zullo Lorenzo Valeo Faurecia Al-Lighting Brose ETRMA

Any other business (I) Rejections by FIAT (2% tolerance issue) Information from IMDS responsible person at FIAT (Mrs. Katia Zardo) FIAT reduced their IMDS tolerance to 2%. FIAT is automatically rejecting datasheet, if any assembly or subcomponents has more than 2% deviation (driven by requirements of local authorities) Workaround (proposed by FIAT) Mrs. Zardo offered to manually accept all those datasheets, where the (sub)components exceed 2% tolerance as long as the (sub)components weight is below 100 g. Please act as following in such cases: 1) submit IMDS datasheet as usual 2) next day call Mrs. Zardo and tell her the IMDS ID then she will accept it Remark: * This is an interims solution, until FIAT adapted their systems (timeline? ? ) * It is not necessary to change the "tolerance" field in IMDS to 2% - just the calculated deviation must be <2% No "official" statement from FIAT on this issue (in spite of several request) Automotive Divisions Environmental Management in Product Development Niels Warburg 4

Any other business (II) Experience exchange "Warnings" What are your experiences with the new "checks" in IMDS (https: //www. mdsystem. com/html/data/why_more_material_warnings. pdf) If you feel that a specific warnings is not appropriate, please communicate it to SC or helpdesk! We asked Steering Committee to publish a clarification on how to proceed with warning, including a clear message that a warning does not necessarily mean that a rejection is necessary SC promised (several times) to do so, but did not publish it until today In discussions with AIAG we learned, that the term "warning" has a very strong meaning in the US (e. g. "Tornado warning") that's for sure one of the reasons for so many rejections on warnings "Warning" has a stronger meaning than "error" in English we proposed to SC to change the word "warning" into "hint", but could not convince them Automotive Divisions Environmental Management in Product Development Niels Warburg 5