:Synapsis Technology, Inc., a provider of environmental compliance and product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, today announced the next release, version 2.5, of its patentpending Environmental Material Aggregation and Reporting System (EMARS(TM)), which completely supports the IPC-1752 Material Declarations standard for the RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) directive. “The IPC-1752 materials directive is a critical industry standard to help control the data formats and forms involved in complying with RoHS,” said German Avila, Synapsis’ product manager for environmental products. “Thoroughly understanding IPC-1752 is extremely important for OEMs and suppliers trying to streamline their processes and reduce the cost and burden of exchanging data related to RoHS. Our new version of EMARS has been designed to support IPC-1752 and ease the pain of gathering, organizing and storing the mass amounts of data involved in compliance.” Source: chron.com