Electronics – Femto cell
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1. Plastic parts marking Where technologically possible plastic parts of the femto cell weighing 2 25 g shall be marked in accordance with the ISO 11469 and ISO 1043 Part 1 2 3 4 SPI or other international standard label to facilitate their identification and recovery at the end of life Plastic packaging materials marking The Plastic packaging materials shall be labeled on the parts with SPI or other international standards for ease of sorting 11 Recycling information The recycling information shall include information such as dis assembly instructions which parts components are suitable for recycling such as metal cases or not suitable for recycling The information which the EU WEEE Directive requires the end product manufacturer to provide may also be included in the product declaration information for femto cell products If practical information for the parts which can not be recycled and therefore should be disposed of properly during the end of life stage may also be included 12 Other environmental information Optional The EPD may cover information including technology adopted site of product manufacturing and assembly as well as information on other working environment health and risk related aspects If this PCR is to be used for product carbon footprint declaration purpose in the declaration information regarding commitment on GHG reduction should be included and shall ensure that the commitment is measurable2. 3 Other components e g CD user manual The data quality requirements for the main components are described in Section 9 on calculation rules and data quality requirements The EPD shall also include the other components of the product but their data quality requirements are different from those of the main components 2 3 Product technical description The product technical description part of the EPD may include but not limited to the following information Product name amp model number Total weight and dimension Connecting devices CPU or major chips Memory capacity Power consumption 3G 4G network interface WAN interface LAN or WLAN interface Count of interfaces and speed and Product service lifetime fe O20 SON ER a eS 3 List of materials and chemical substances The contents of the following materials and substances in the product shall be declared All materials of the product with weight ratio material weight product weight gt 1 All materials substances in the product including packaging regulated by legal customer and environmental requirements The following materials in the product components flame retardants lead content in solder lead and flame retardant content in solder masking agent and substances regulated by EU s RoHS Directive the latest version The declaration of halogen free flame retardants lead free solders and no RoHS regulated substances may only be made whe
3. is in idle mode 10 hours a day each year the total time in idle mode is 3 650 hours Connect Working Mode The power state in which the product is connected to the 3G 4G mobile phones or devices and the power consumption of the product varies with the distance between the product and the mobile phones devices The farther the mobile phone device is away from the femto cell the greater the power output thus power consumption of the femto cell and vice versa Therefore the power consumption of the femto cell during this mode can be divided into high middle and low power output Assume each day the femto cell is connected to the 3G 4G mobile devices 6 hours for data transmission everyday with two hours each at the high medium and low output power state respectively Thus every year the product will be under each of the three power output states for 730 hours Basic Working Mode The power state in which the product is not connected to the 3G 4G mobile phones or devices Instead the product is communicated with the Internet through the wired or wireless local area network LAN or WLAN It is assumed that the product is under the basic working mode for 8 hours a day and 2 920 hours a year If there are other energy consumption assumptions or usage scenarios they should be described with reference to applicable international national or industrial standards The estimated annual time hours the product spent in each power consumpti
4. reportable and verifiable The organization may also list environmental and energy management related information such as awards commendations and system certifications e g ISO 14001 ISO 14064 1 IECQ HSPM etc 13 Information about the certification The information on PCR review EPD verification and verification organization shall be included EPD Certification is valid until 20XX _ According to the Requirements for the international EPD system General Programme Instructions Version 1 2008 www environdec com The PCR review for PCR 201X was administered by the Environment and Development Foundation and carried out by an LCA expert panel chaired by Dr Ning Yu ningyu edf org tw Independent verification of the declaration according to ISO 14025 2006 Internal m External Third party verifier Environment and Development Foundation in Taiwan Accredited by Name Title Organization Signature Name Title Organization Signature Name Title Organization Signature Environmental declarations from different programmes may not be comparable 14 References Energy Star Computer Specification Version 5 2 The EPD shall make reference to the following documents EPD General Program Instructions Version 1 0 2008 02 29 The International EPD Cooperation downloadable from http www environdec com Relevant PCR documents The underlying LCA report When ava
5. A report shall be defined Boundary towards nature If the manufacturing processes are located within Taiwan the solid waste categories as defined in Taiwan s Waste Disposal Act shall be adopted If the processes are located in other countries equivalent legal requirements shall be considered The natural boundary of the system shall describe the boundary where the materials and energy resources flow from nature into the system and where the water and air emissions and waste are released out of the system Only the waste which is required to be disposed of needs to be considered land filling process does not need to be included If the waste is generated through wastewater treatment or incineration process such waste should be included into the wastewater treatment or incineration process Boundaries in the life cycle The boundaries in the product life cycle are described in Figure 1 The construction of the site and infrastructure as well as the production of manufacturing equipment and activities of the workers does not need to be included Boundaries towards other technical systems Boundaries towards other technical systems describe the inputs of material and other components towards other systems as well as outputs of materials towards other systems For the inputs of recycled materials and energy towards the product manufacturing stage the transportation between the recycling process and use of recycled materials shall be includ
6. Product Category Rules PCR for Preparing an Environmental Product Declaration EPD for Femto Cells PCR 2011 1 0 SerComm Corporation Version 1 0 2011 12 31 Nn amp Ww oO NO 9 Table of Contents General information Company and product description 2 1 Product group function 2 2 Product components 2 3 Product technical description List of materials and chemical substances Declared unit System boundaries 5 1 Specifications for different boundary settings Cut off rules Allocation rules Units Calculation rules and data quality requirements 10 Parameters to be declared in the EPD 11 Recycling information 12 Other environmental information Optional 13 Information about the certification 14 References Appendix I Generic data sources to refer to Appendix II Reporting format for the EPD Appendix III Abbreviations 1 General Information This document is to be used as the product category rules PCR for the global production and manufacturing of femto cells The requirements specified in this PCR are intended to be used for EPDs certified in accordance with ISO 14025 standard This document shall be valid until December 31 2013 This PCR was prepared by SerComm Corporation Representatives from major Taiwanese manufacturers of similar products and stakeholders were invited by the Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers Association TEEMA to the open consultation meeti
7. anization Recycling information see Section 11 Other environmental information see Section 12 Information regarding certification Names of certification and verification organizations Validity of certification certificates Compliance with legal and relevant requirements References see Section 14 relevant PCR documents EPD General Program Instructions Version 1 0 2008 02 29 underlying LCA study other supporting documents for LCA information other relevant documents regarding company organization s environmental activities Appendix III Abbreviations Acronym Common Name ACPI Advanced Configuration amp Power Interface APLAC Asia Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation CFP Carbon Footprint of Product EPD Environmental Product Declaration ErP Energy Related Product ILAC International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation ILAC MAR Mutual Recognition Arrangement IsO International Organization for Standardization LCA Life Cycle Assessment PCR Product Category Rule The Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances in RoHS i electrical and electronic equipment SPI Society of the Plastics Industry TAF Taiwan Accreditation Foundation TEC Typical Energy Consumption Trpt Transportation WEEE The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive
8. ed in the data set For the production of recyclable products during the manufacturing stage the transportation towards the recycling process shall be included Note Further explanations are provided in Section 7 on open loop recycling Boundaries regarding geographical coverage The manufacturing stage may cover manufacturing processes located on any sites around the world For processes located in a specific region the data used should be representative of the region The data for the main components shall be the specific regional data for the region where the process takes place see Section 9 For ease of comparison no matter where the emissions are generated the same environmental impact parameters should be used for life cycle impact assessment see Section 10 6 Cut off rules For any impact category if the sum of various impacts from a specific process activity is less than 1 of the impact equivalent in that category such a process activity may be neglected during the inventory analysis Nonetheless the accumulated impact of neglected process activity may not exceed 5 Components and materials omitted from the LCA shall be documented Note This judgment for this 1 Rule is based on the environment relevance assessment of material input to the system and does not consider special and exceptional environmental impacts 7 Allocation rules The main allocation rules shall be valid for the entire product system For ot
9. em 8 Units The base units and derived units of the International System of Units SI Syst me International d unit s shall be used preferentially Power amp energy units power unit W energy unit J Specification units length unit m capacity unit m area unit m weight unit kg If necessary prefixes may be used before the SI units 10 giga symbol G 10 mega symbol M 10 kilo symbol k 10 centi symbol c 10 milli symbol m 10 micro symbol u 10 nano symbol n 9 Calculation rules and data quality requirements Date quality requirements for the raw material acquisition stage Generic data may be used for the acquisition production forming and refining of raw materials used for the components of the femto cell products Please refer to Appendix I for the common sources of generic data Date quality requirements for the manufacturing stage Site specific data for example specific data for manufacturing plant or transportation shall be used for the manufacturing of major components and assembly of the femto cell products If other types of information are used description of the information and rationale for using the information shall be provided For site specific data of main component manufacturing plants specific data from a plant representative of such a site may be used Generic data may be used for the manufacturing of othe
10. he section numbering the information in Italics are the recommended data information for inclusion Introductory part Each EPD should have an introduction part on the top part of the EPD which includes the following information Company organization name Product name EPD registration number Description of the company organization and product service Company Organization Description of company organization Description of overall working environment existing quality system and environmental management system Product and services see Section 2 Product s main applications Description of product specification manufacturing process manufacturing sites if there are several sites For product s environmental performance aspects characteristics which may improve the usefulness of product Other types of relevant information for example special manufacturing processes with special advantages to the environment List of materials and chemical substances Content declaration see Section 3 Presentation of the environmental performance Outline of the LCA methodology for example period of LCA declared units system boundaries graphical presentation cut off and allocation rules and data sources Manufacturing stage see Section 10 Use stage see Section 10 Geographical region for product delivery Transportation data End of life information Information about Company and Certification Org
11. he site specific data for the recycling waste disposal system can not be obtained Then generic data and recycling rate may be used to calculate environmental impact Please refer to Appendix I for the common sources of generic data 10 Parameters to be declared in the EPD The following parameters shall be declared in the EPD Energy use The energy consumption during each product life cycle stage shall be declared If the product is intended for end users the power consumption during the use stage shall also be declared The following units shall be used preferentially kW or W for power J or MJ for energy Resource use The information on resource input during the product life cycle stages shall be declared Impact equivalents expressed as potential environmental impacts Global warming kg CO2 equivalent Acidification kg SO2 equivalent Photochemical oxidant formation kg C2H4 equivalent Eutrophication kg PO equivalent Ozone depletion kg CFC 11 equivalent Note For characterization factors of each impact category please refer to EPD Supporting Annexes Version 1 0 2008 02 29 The International EPD Cooperation downloadable from www environdec com Additional information Recyclable materials optional Information on secondary materials optional Waste classification Hazardous waste as defined in Taiwan s Waste Disposal Act Follow host countries laws for sites outside Taiwan Other waste
12. her secondary processes other allocation rules may be defined however the use of these rules should be justified Product specific information should be preferentially collected in order to avoid the need for allocation While selecting allocation rules the following principles are recommended Multi output The allocations are based on the changes in the resource consumption and pollutant emissions for example adopted quantity allocation for some main component or surface allocation for some components following the changes in the studied system s output product or function or economical relationship Multi input The allocation is based on actual relationship For example the manufacturing process s emissions may be affected by the change in waste flow input Open loop recycling For the input of recycled materials or energy during the manufacturing stage of the product system the transportation between the recycling process and the recycling to material use shall be included in the dataset For the product which shall be recycled during the manufacturing stage the transportation towards the recycling process shall be included Notes Allocation may be avoided through avoidance of dividing processes for example as described in Section 6 3 of ISO TR 14049 or through expansion of system boundary for example as described in Section 6 4 so that the amended system shares the same product exchanges as the original syst
13. ilable the following documents shall also be referenced Other documents and recycling instructions which verify and complement the EPD Appendix I Generic Data Sources to Refer to For processes located within Taiwan Taiwan generic data or the data published by the commercial industrial and energy competent authorities of the Republic of China ROC government may be used However for other regions such as EU if there are more relevant generic data available these data should be used instead The following generic databases are recommended for use Packing materials Steel Primary copper Copper products ELCD version Electricity Fuels Aluminum Chemicals Transports Waste EIME Environmental Information and Management management Explorer EcoBilan PE Plastics Europe Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe Plastics ELCD EIME Environmental Information and Management Explorer EcoBilan EIME Environmental Information and Management Explorer EcoBilan Electronic components Ecoinvent The Boustead Model General Database PE GaBi DoITPro Taiwan Appendix II Reporting Format for the EPD This appendix provides guidance information for the titles of sections types of data and required information to be reported in the mandatory reporting part of the EPD As a generic reporting template the following titles and sub titles are recommended Refer to the PCR manual for t
14. l Material acquisition phase Manufacturing phase Marketing phase Use phase phase I 7 Mandatory inclusion of energy mandatory inclusion L Jd consumption Voluntary inclusion Trpt transportation gt Figure 1 System boundary of the product system As noted in Figure 1 above the life cycle of a femto cell covers five life cycle stages raw material acquisition product manufacturing distribution product use and waste disposal The data quality requirements for the main components and other components are described in Section 9 on calculation rules and data quality requirements Raw Materials Acquisition Stage The LCA shall include information for the following unit processes Material extraction and manufacturing of main components and other components Production generation of energy used for raw material manufacturing The inclusion in the LCA the information on the forming and refining of raw materials and transportation of raw materials is optional voluntary Manufacturing Stage The LCA shall include information for the following unit processes Manufacturing of main components and generation of associated process waste Assembly of products and generation of associated process waste Transportation of main components to product assembly plant The inclusion in the LCA the information on the input output of packaging material during main components manufacturing process and the man
15. n appropriate evidences are available for example test reports from accredited laboratories testing facilities The following organizations may provide accreditation for testing facilities Tatwan Accreditation Foundation TAF Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation APLAC International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation ILAC or ILAC Mutual Recognition Arrangement ILAC MRA For definitions of testing methodology and confirmations of regulated hazardous substances based on the accredited laboratories product testing methods please refer to IEC 62321 Standard 4 Declared unit The declared unit is one unit of femto cell This unit is chosen because the femto cell products are marketed and sold in such a unit The power rating of the product shall also be declared 5 System boundaries The main system boundaries for the declared product system are presented as follows Emission Waste scrap Trpt Emission Waste Manufacturing emission Waste scrap of main scrap components Trpt Trpt od Assembly Marketing of pi Femto Cells Femto Cells of Femto Cells F Femto Cells 7 l use waste disposal Material Material production i forming energy auxiliary extraction refining 1 material AE ET EE ER E iana ii Trpt ki Trpt p Manufacturing HI t t energy up ofother enensy auxiliary ia auxiliary components material material Waste T te Emer Disposa
16. ng on December 20 2011 to participate in the discussion and review of this PCR Environment and Development Foundation EDF then reviewed and approved this PCR For further information and comments concerning this PCR please contact SerComm Corporation R amp D Division Isaac Wen TEL 02 26553988 ext 2634 FAX 02 26553966 email isaac_wen sercomm com 2 Company and product description The EPD shall include information about the manufacturing company organization The information may include manufacturing process related information and environmental related information such as the environmental management system information The information may also include special issues which the company organization would like to emphasize such as the products meeting certain environmental criteria or environmental safety and health related information This PCR is applicable to both business to consumer customer B2C and business to business B2B communications While conducting certification of product related environmental impacts the inventory shall also include product accessories and packaging 2 1 Product group function The femtocell or femto cell is a small cellular base station installed in a fixed location home or office setting to perform its specific functions including connecting 3G 4G LTE or WiMAX mobile phones and implementing functions such as data transfer or dispersion of bandwidth A femtocell may exist independentl
17. ocated in Taiwan For sites located outside Taiwan legal requirements for the host country shall be observed For the transportation of main components to the manufacturing plant the actual transportation modes used and distance traveled shall be considered Date quality requirements for the distribution and marketing stage For the transportation of products to the distribution sites or retailer sites the actual mode of transportation and distance traveled shall be considered Date quality requirements for the use stage The energy consumption of the product shall be determined based on testing methodology stipulated in applicable international national or industrial standards of the countries regions the product is marketed For the electricity mix for the use stage the official electricity mix for the country where the product is exported may be used as approximate value Please refer to Appendix I for the common sources of generic data Date quality requirements for the recycling end of life stage For transportation of end of life femto cells as post consumer waste for delivery to processors or recyclers the data from national or industry sources or consumer behavior surveys can be used When such data cannot be obtained evaluation based on assumed scenario can be made and the assumptions for such a scenario shall be reported in the EPD Generic data may be used during the recycling end of life stage if for specific reason t
18. on mode is listed as follows Usage Mode Normal Time Ratio hours Idle mode 3 650 41 67 High output 730 8 33 power Medium output 730 8 33 Connect working mode power Low output 730 8 33 power Basic working mode 2 920 33 33 The power consumption for each state can be denoted as follows PI Power consumption during idle mode power consumption PCH Power consumption during connect working mode with high output power PCM Power consumption during connect working mode with medium output power PCL Power consumption during connect working mode with low output power PB Power consumption during basic working mode The product s total power consumption MJ during the use stage can be calculated using the follow equation Erec 8760 1000 x PI x 0 4167 PCH x 0 0833 PCM x 0 0833 PCL x 0 0833 PB x 0 3333 3 6 x service life A service lifetime of three years is assumed for the product The reporting of maintenance during the use stage and the transportation of end of life product to waste disposal facility is optional voluntary Note Assume a product lifespan of three years Recycling end of life Stage Reporting of recycling information such as recycling and dis assembly report or information on recycling channels is mandatory in the EPD 5 1 Specification of different boundary settings Boundary in time The validity period for the LCA results presented in the LC
19. r components for the femto cell products and based the calculation on actual consumption Please refer to Appendix I for the common sources of generic data When generic data are used the equivalence between the chemical and or physical process of referred systems shall be considered Moreover it is also recommended to consider the date or geographic aspects of the data quality when feasible Generic data may also be used when suppliers refuse to provide specific data or when even if generic data are used in place of specific data there is only minor impact to the results The general rule is that if generic data are used in place of specific data their combined contribution for all life cycle stages shall not be greater than 20 of total impacts for each impact category But there may be certain exception to specific products and such exceptions shall be explained The data shall be representative for the average of a specific year If the average data for a specific time period of less than one year is used the reason for using such data shall be provided The electricity mix for the manufacturing stage should be site specific data If site specific data cannot be obtained the official electricity mix for the country where the site is located may be used as approximate value The electricity mix should be documented For the definition of hazardous waste the definition as defined in Taiwan s Waste Disposal Act shall be used for sites l
20. ufacturing of minor secondary components parts is optional voluntary Distribution and Marketing Stage The LCA shall include information for the following unit processes Transportation of products to the distribution sites or customer designated locations Inventory and reporting of energy resource input and waste generation during the marketing process is optional voluntary Inventory and reporting of transportation from sales distribution sites to users is optional voluntary Use Stage Product manufacturer shall provide the energy consumption information for this stage based on the highest most energy consuming product technical configuration specifications and conduct environmental impact assessment based on this information while brand name manufacturer shall conduct environmental impact assessment based on the product s technical specifications as shipped The definitions of energy consumption test standard and product usage scenario are described as follows Product shall declare its power consumption during each of its power consumption mode A femto cell s power consumption modes can be defined as idle mode connection working mode and basic working mode Each mode is defined as follows Idle Mode The power state in which the product s operating system and other software have completed loading a user profile has been created and activity is limited to those basic applications It is assumed that the product
21. y or it can be connected to the Internet through its external wired or wireless local area network LAN or WLAN function and connected to a router or gateway in order to transfer data The router or gateway can also be integrated with the femtocell into a single device to achieve the above functions Thus this PCR defined the following types of femtocells 1 Femto cell micro base station Feature one or more 3G 4G function and connection function through wired or wireless local area network LAN or WLAN 2 Femtocell with integrated router function Feature one or more 3G 4G functionality connection function through wired or wireless local area network LAN or WLAN and router function 3 Femtocell with integrated gateway function Feature one or more 3G 4G functionality connection function through wired or wireless local area network LAN or WLAN and gateway function including various WAN interfaces e g ADSL ADSL2 ADSL2 VDSL Cable Fiber etc 2 2 Product components The femto cell s main components include the following Main board Electronic components e g CPU memory control chips Communication components e g communication chip built in antenna module Mechanical components Input output device interface External case Packaging and External power supply OO ONO Pe tO The femto cell may also include the following components 1 External wireless antenna 2 Connector cables and
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