Ariel Data Manager™ (ADM)

An Ariel EH&S Decision Support product, Ariel Data Manager (ADM) enables integration with a customer's EH&S applications, facilitating increased operational efficiencies and informed decision-making.

Comprehensive, centralized global regulatory information is essential for overall product and facility compliance. ADM can provide the relevant information required for making critical decisions related to a number of business issues that have to be considered when manufacturing and shipping products, such as:

• Making sure Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) are compliant within the markets in which the products are sold
• Identifying regulatory authorities who require notification when exporting
• Knowing which agencies have to be notified in the event of a chemical release or spill
• Ensuring safe storage, handling, transport and disposal of substances
• Ensuring products can be sold in the intended markets

How to Use

Ariel Decision Support Products have been proven to increase efficiencies, streamline processes and save EH&S professionals valuable time. Regulatory Compliance Specialists, Toxicologists, Industrial Hygienists, MSDS Authors, Material and Emission Specialists and Transportation and Logistical Specialists rely on Ariel content everyday. A variety of professionals with a wide range of EH&S responsibilities can enjoy the benefits of ADM. For example, the classification according to EU Directive 67/548/EEC for zinc powder may be reviewed within ADM. Depending on whether the chemical has been stabilized or is in a pyrophoric state at your company, the appropriate classification can be selected in ADM and served to downstream applications allowing the MSDS Author, Transportation Specialists and others to consistently reference the appropriate classification. As needed, substance variants may be maintained to support chemical and hazard differences such as the hazards that are applicable when a substance is in a free flowing state and those that are applicable when the same substance is in an encapsulated state. Features that support the review of Ariel content at a component level or at a product level and the export of information into common applications such as Microsoft® Excel are also provided.

How it Works

Regulations are constantly changing. EH&S professionals are required to track hundreds of regulations in many jurisdictions as they apply to thousands of substances. Not only are they required to track the information, but to act on it, making informed decisions. Ariel Data Manager provides users with easy and efficient change management and impact analysis. It also supports security and privacy by serving as a single repository of regulatory content residing inside your firewall. Accessing content from a single source for use in multiple applications within your enterprise also enables data integrity.

ADM retrieves the content relevant to your business via the web utilizing secure HTTPS protocol XML messaging. Prior to loading Ariel content into your system, the content may be reviewed and arranged for viewing in a variety of formats, such as by regulation (regulatory tree) or by component (component tree). Loading decisions are recorded at the substance level in a local centralized database so that future data maintenance is efficient and painless. Impact analysis offers a complete view of changed elements by displaying the latest Ariel regulatory data along-side the regulatory information previously stored, providing additional insight into the impact of regulatory change on your business. For example, as regulatory changes occur and the corresponding content updates are processed, the recorded loading decisions are used to determine whether content changes are filtered or are passed to downstream applications.

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The Foundation of Ariel Products - Regulatory Content

The core of Ariel products is the massive aggregation of global regulatory content that is delivered by the products within the EH&S Decision Support family. These products provide accurate, up-to-date, comprehensive global regulatory information containing hundreds of searchable chemical lists covering more than 60 countries. The data includes product safety, EH&S legislation and directives on import/export, hazard communication, workplace safety, notification, reporting and prohibitions on the marketing and use of hazardous substances. 3E's Ariel Global Research Team supports research for more than 700 regulatory lists covering nearly 4,000 data elements. Regulatory lists that could directly influence your business processes and your compliance practices are available for integration via Ariel Data Manager. Informational regulations and access to the full-text of regulations and compliance guides are available through a subscription to Ariel WebInsight, 3E's flagship online reference product, which seamlessly integrates with ADM.

Accurate, Up-to-Date Content

3E's team of regulatory researchers updates Ariel content quarterly, but data can be pulled at any time into a customer's system via ADM. In addition, ADM is supported by Ariel Generics, which is information that helps identify regulatory requirements for chemicals that are not specifically named in the regulations but are regulated as members of a broad group of chemicals, such as "cadmium compounds." 3E supports over 5,000 broad classes of chemical substances.

Content Modules

Regional Regulatory Coverage

Ariel Data Manager's regional regulatory modules provide extensive coverage of regulated chemicals throughout the world at multiple levels of jurisdiction, from international, U.S. federal and state, to European Union (EU) member and non-member states. From ADM, a context sensitive link is provided to WebInsight, providing access to the comprehensive collection of content. The native-language laws and regulations are provided for those countries where an official English translation is not available. To support compliance efforts, practical overviews and compliance guides provided by the Ariel Global Research Team are available in English. Reference data is updated monthly and the data served by ADM is updated quarterly to ensure currency. Users can subscribe to any or all of the regional regulatory modules, which include:

• North America
• Western Europe
• Central & Eastern Europe
• Middle East / Africa
• Latin America
• Asia-Pacific

Physical, Chemical, Toxicological and Eco-toxicological Content (PCTEC)

ADM's chemical property and hazard data provides in-depth physical, chemical, toxicological and eco-toxicological data for nearly 8,000 of the most common substances. Understanding the physical and chemical properties as well as the toxicity and eco-toxicity of substances used in product formulations helps EH&S professionals make informed decisions related to the impact of the chemicals, their processes and their products on their workers, the workplace and the environment.

What You Need

• Subscription to Ariel Content – Pick and choose based on the unique needs of your organization
• Software – Client software, loader application and maintenance contract
• Services – Installation, loader development assistance, training and content maintenance assistance

Each of 3E's services comes with a variety of options and enhancement modules that can be integrated into the leading EH&S systems, custom systems, or configured based on a customer's EH&S information management needs. Contact us for more information today.

Brochures and Additional Information

Features

• Regulatory and Component Filters

  User defined regulatory and component filters enhance the application workflow and make it easy to define regulatory scope, analyze regulatory changes and upload data into your host EH&S application.

• Regulatory Change Management

  Identify the impact of regulatory change on the substances in your EH&S database and streamline the process of performing regulatory updates. Create detailed reports on the changes in regulatory values and utilize those reports to significantly decrease the time it takes to keep your EH&S system up to date.

• Generics Support

  Make decisions regarding the applicability of regulatory groups (“generics”). Ariel generics support enables you to select the right group of chemicals and save your decisions for future use. You can automatically apply the same generics decisions to multiple chemicals.

• Data Sync

  A Data Sync mechanism provides the ability to schedule content updates via CD or over the Internet. The tool operates entirely in the background and synchronizes your local regulatory database win the Ariel central server.

• The Wercs® Loader

  ADM features tight content integration with The Wercs application. The Wercs user benefits from the enhanced decision support functionality, improved mapping and masking features and behind the scenes data loading mechanism.

• Highly Secure

  All product and formulation information remains inside the customer’s firewall. The local regulatory database is kept up to date using highly secure HTTPS protocol.

• Integration with Ariel Reference Products

  ADM seamlessly integrates with Ariel WebInsight, 3E’s Online web-based global chemical regulatory compliance tool.