Delivering safe, high-quality products at lower cost

With market pressure to deliver low-priced products on the rise, manufacturing companies strive to innovate more rapidly than ever before in order to ensure ongoing profitability. 

Product liability, a manufacturer’s top legal concern, is complicated by increasing consumer and regulatory pressures.  Compliance mandates negatively impact the time and costs of bringing a product to market.  Complex environmental regulations often lead to expensive management processes and/or heavy fines.  Additionally, the growing sophistication of counterfeiters further impacts a manufacturer’s revenues.

In today’s economy, manufacturing organizations are under great pressure to proactively control legal, compliance, and security risks in order to product integrity and customer satisfaction.  Consequently, they are looking for actionable risk management strategies to gain the competitive advantage.

How TeamConnect Helps

Mitratech’s TeamConnect solutions allow manufacturers to better manage the risks that impact corporate revenues, consumer confidence, and brand reputation.  Using TeamConnect’s single platform solution, Mitratech clients manage product liability and other legal matters, compliance concerns, and counterfeiting incidents.  Manufacturers gain visibility into high-risk products and geographies, and strategically oversee the product lifecycle with legal and compliance issues in mind.

TeamConnect allows internal departments to collaborate on a comprehensive risk management strategy with full visibility into:

Legal

• Product liability
• Mass Tort
• Intellectual Property
• Trademark, Patent, Licensing
• Environmental
• Tax
• Employment
• Advice & counsel

Compliance

• Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
• Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
• Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS)
• End of Life Vehicles (ELV)
• Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability, & Documentation (TREAD) Act
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations                                         
• National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)
• Particulate Matter (PM) standard

Security

• IP Piracy & Theft
• Product Integrity & Counterfeiting
• Product Diversion
• Supply Chain Security
• Labor & Union Unrest
• Securing Overseas Facilities