TÜV Rheinland Compliance Platform (TCP)

Stay on Top with Clear Product Compliance

Whether you are in the automotive, electronics, chemical or food industry, you are facing a continuously growing landscape of environmental directives and regulatory requirements. RoHS, REACH, food traceability laws, and other regulations have almost become household terms – with stakeholders and consumers demanding greater transparency of the products you manufacture and the processes you use.

The TÜV Rheinland Compliance Platform (TCP) is a Web-based compliance analysis and risk management tool. It ensures that your products’ compliance stays up-to-date with environmental laws and regulations throughout the product development process.

For the food industry, the TCP also offers a traceability tool that enables you to keep perfect track of any ingredients used throughout the entire food chain. The tool is based on food safety requirements, e.g. as specified in the HACCP/ISO22000 standard, and in conformance with globally accepted traceability standards, such as those stipulated by GS1.

Benefits at a Glance

Using the recognized TÜV Rheinland Compliance Platform for compliance of your development processes, you can:

  • Increase the transparency of your products’ compliance status throughout the product life cycle
  • Improve your environmental balance sheet by avoiding hazardous substances throughout product development process
  • Ensure compliance with statutory and voluntary requirements
  • Simplify your food safety product data and claim management processes and enhance their transparency, with improved traceability throughout the food chain
  • Streamline compliance reporting to authorities, business partners, and other stakeholders
  • Reduce cost along the entire product life cycle significantly through savings in personnel, work hours, and R&D
  • Improve compatibility of products and services with market demands
  • Provide consumers with safe and tested products
  • Expedite time-to-market and gain a competitive lead

Streamlined and Automated Compliance Management

With the TÜV Rheinland Compliance Platform (TCP), you profit from our many years of experience with compliance management processes. In addition, with our one-stop solution, your initial investment stays low and you benefit from various complementary services under one roof (for example, food traceability combined with auditing for Food Safety Management Systems (FSMS) and food safety testing).

TCP comes with an elaborate set of compliance management tools:

  • Efficient handling of regulatory compliance requirements and easy data acquisition regarding critical requirements.
  • Facilitated product data management, enhanced internal and external communication.
  • Creation and support of various, industry-wide accepted compliance reporting formats.
  • Continuous updates on new compliance requirements and exemptions.

Three Steps to Compliance Management with TCP

TCP implementation is done using an SaaS (Software as a Service) approach. You are facing a minimum initial investment (no hardware investments are required), and all maintenance and support work is carried out by TÜV Rheinland Group, including regular updates depending on the regulatory requirements.

The SaaS approach consists of the following steps:

  1. Customer Requirements Evaluation
    Our TÜV Rheinland experts determine which product development processes require which compliance testing.
  2. Implementation and Training
    The TCP is implemented in accordance with your company’s product compliance requirements. Our experts then provide training for your employees to maintain the system.
  3. Go-Live (ongoing training and support)
    Upon launching the system, our experts provide continuous training and support at regular intervals, ensuring that your employees can fully benefit from our compliance management and traceability tool’s advantages.