Customer & Industry Requirements
Substances on the AD-DSL (Version 9.0, 2025)
Declaration levels: E (Product Statement), F (DSL), G (Full Disclosure)
Supply chain substance data required from sub-tier through OEM
Regulation Overview
IPC-1754 is the industry standard for exchanging material and substance declaration data between suppliers and their customers in aerospace, defense, heavy equipment, and adjacent industries. For supply chain compliance teams, IPC-1754 defines how substance data—including CAS numbers, concentration levels, and process chemicals—must be structured, reported, and communicated across multi-tier supply chains using a standardized XML schema.
The standard supports reporting against multiple Declarable Substance Lists simultaneously, including the IAEG AD-DSL, which now contains over 2,000 substances as of Version 9.0. OEMs use IPC-1754 to consolidate compliance with EU REACH SVHC obligations, RoHS substance restrictions, TSCA PBT requirements, and PFAS reporting mandates into a single declaration workflow. Suppliers must generate Class E (product statement), Class F (DSL substance disclosure), or Class G (full substance disclosure) declarations depending on customer requirements.
IPC-1754 compliance requires BOM-level compliance intelligence—substance data mapped to every material, component, and sub-assembly—from every supplier across every tier of your supply chain.
Aerospace and defense OEMs requesting substance declarations from suppliers
Tier 1, Tier 2, and sub-tier suppliers providing materials, components, or sub-assemblies to A&D customers
Heavy equipment manufacturers adopting IPC-1754 for material compliance reporting
Electronics manufacturers supplying components into A&D programs
Raw material and chemical suppliers required to report process substance data
Any company in the supply chain receiving an IPC-1754 declaration request from a customer
Key Thresholds
IAEG releases new AD-DSL versions with expanded substance coverage and updated regulatory criteria. Each update means re-collecting declarations from hundreds of suppliers—but your existing data was gathered against Version 7.0 or 8.0. Your team must identify which suppliers need to re-declare, issue new requests, and reconcile incoming responses against the updated list. Without automated supplier data collection, this cycle consumes months.
One OEM requests Class E. Another demands Class G with full substance disclosure including process chemicals. A third requires Class F against a custom DSL. Your suppliers are submitting data in PDFs, Excel spreadsheets, and freeform emails—none in valid IPC-1754 XML. Your compliance team is manually translating every response into structured data, one declaration at a time.
IPC-1754 requires substance data across the full product hierarchy—materials, sub-products, and process chemicals at every tier. Your Tier 1 supplier provides a declaration, but their Tier 2 data is incomplete. A critical coating contains a process chemical on the AD-DSL, but no one declared it. Without multi-tier supply chain transparency, your declaration to the OEM is incomplete before you submit it.
A single IPC-1754 declaration must satisfy REACH SVHC, RoHS, TSCA, Prop 65, and emerging PFAS reporting obligations simultaneously. Each regulation has different substance lists, thresholds, and exemption structures. Suppliers submit separate responses for each framework. Without centralized compliance data backbone, reconciling five frameworks into one XML file requires specialized substance reporting solutions and weeks of manual effort.
Certivo In Action
Certivo in Action — IPC-1754 Workflow
Features Tabs
Aerospace & Defense
Your Pain Point
OEM-mandated AD-DSL declarations; multi-tier process chemical reporting; ITAR-sensitive data handling
Industrial Machinery & Heavy Equipment
Your Pain Point
Deep supply chains; legacy materials; AD-DSL adopted for heavy equipment substance reporting
Electronics Manufacturing
Your Pain Point
Complex BOMs; substances in capacitors, connectors, coatings flowing into A&D programs
Automotive Manufacturing
Your Pain Point
IMDS requirements intersect IPC-1754; shared suppliers across A&D and automotive programs
Chemical Manufacturing
Your Pain Point
Raw material suppliers required to declare process chemicals and substance compositions
Medical Devices & Equipment
Your Pain Point
Biocompatibility intersects substance concerns; shared supply chains with A&D sector
From Manual Translation to Automated Generation
CORA extracts substance data from any supplier format and generates IPC-1754-compliant XML automatically. Your team focuses on exceptions that need human judgment—not manual data entry across specialized substance reporting solutions.
IPC-1754 Declaration Acceleration
Generate complete, audit-ready Class E, F, or G declaration packages in hours—not the 4–6 weeks of manual compilation and XML formatting.
Proactive Regulatory Intelligence and Horizon Scanning
When IAEG updates the AD-DSL, Certivo reassesses your portfolio instantly. Know which products and suppliers are affected before your OEM customer issues the next declaration request.
Frequently Asked Questions
What companies and suppliers are subject to IPC-1754 declaration requirements?
Any company receiving an IPC-1754 declaration request from an aerospace, defense, or heavy equipment customer must respond at the requested class level. This includes Tier 1 and sub-tier suppliers, raw material providers, component manufacturers, and chemical suppliers. OEMs increasingly require IPC-1754 XML declarations as a condition of supplier qualification, making automated declaration generation through platforms like Certivo essential for maintaining program eligibility.
What are the consequences of failing to provide IPC-1754 declarations to OEM customers?
While IPC-1754 is an industry standard rather than a regulation, failure to provide requested declarations results in direct commercial consequences. Suppliers risk removal from approved vendor lists, disqualification from new program bids, and suspension from active contracts. Defense primes and major aerospace OEMs treat incomplete substance declarations as a supply chain risk factor that can trigger supplier risk scoring downgrades and program delays.
How does Certivo handle AD-DSL version updates and multi-regulation validation?
Certivo maintains continuous sync with the IAEG AD-DSL, incorporating new substance additions and classification changes within days of each version release. When the AD-DSL is updated, CORA reassesses your entire product portfolio and alerts you to affected parts, triggering automated supplier recollection campaigns. The same declaration data is simultaneously validated against REACH, RoHS, TSCA, Prop 65, and PFAS requirements through Certivo's centralized compliance data backbone.
What declaration formats does Certivo accept from suppliers for IPC-1754 reporting?
Certivo accepts any format: PDF declarations, Excel spreadsheets, IPC-1752A XML, AD-SRT exports, IMDS data, and freeform responses. CORA's AI document parsing extracts substance data to CAS-number precision regardless of format or language, eliminating the need to standardize supplier inputs before generating valid IPC-1754 AM2-compliant XML declarations.
Does Certivo support all three IPC-1754 declaration classes (E, F, and G)?
Yes. Certivo generates Class E product statements, Class F DSL substance declarations, and Class G full substance disclosures—all in IPC-1754 AM2-compliant XML format. CORA maps extracted substance data against the specified DSL and Query List, populates the XML schema automatically, and produces OEM-ready declaration packages with full audit traceability from supplier evidence through final output.