Industry solution
Every plant is its own compliance jurisdiction
- 9,400+
- manufacturing obligations across states
- 180+
- Quality Control Orders tracked
- Per-plant
- scoping by state, category and process
Sector pressures
What makes manufacturing compliance hard
State fragmentation at plant level
Factory licence, consent to operate, shops and establishments registration, professional tax and labour welfare fund all differ by state — and sometimes by municipal corporation within a state.
Quality Control Orders arriving continuously
More than 180 QCOs now cover steel, chemicals, machinery and components. Each gives six to twelve months before non-certified goods become unsellable, which is less than most supplier qualification cycles.
Occupier liability is personal and criminal
Under the Factories Act and the OSH Code the named occupier faces imprisonment exposure for safety contraventions. That is a different conversation from a monetary penalty.
EPR and carbon obligations now have a price
Plastic packaging EPR shortfall is priced per tonne, and the Carbon Credit Trading Scheme brings verified emission intensity targets to nine energy-intensive sectors from 2026.
Coverage
Key instruments we track in depth for this sector
A representative sample, not the full list. Depth varies by jurisdiction and we will tell you exactly where it sits for your markets before you buy.
| Instrument | Jurisdiction | What it drives |
|---|---|---|
| Factories Act, 1948 + State Rules | State | Licensing, occupier nomination, safety officers, statutory registers |
| OSH Code, 2020 | Central + State | Consolidates 13 enactments; state rules still diverging |
| SPCB Consent to Operate | State | Site-specific conditions, renewal cycles, monitoring connectivity |
| BIS Quality Control Orders | Central | Mandatory certification per product per factory |
| Hazardous Waste Rules, 2016 | Central + State | Authorisation, manifests, annual returns |
| Legal Metrology Act, 2009 | Central + State | Packaged commodity declarations, state-level registration |
| CGST Act, 2017 | Central + State | Per-GSTIN returns, e-invoicing, e-way bills |
| CCTS, 2023 | Central | Emission intensity targets from the 2026 compliance cycle |
Use cases
How teams in this sector use Regulens
Plant-level obligation registers
Scope obligations to each plant by state, category, capacity and process, so the Gujarat unit is not assessed against Tamil Nadu rules.
Consent condition tracking
Extract the site-specific conditions from every consent order and treat them as obligations with owners and evidence.
QCO applicability against your catalogue
Map notified QCOs to your SKUs and bought-out components, with supplier certification status tracked against effective dates.
Occupier and manager accountability
A clear register of who is the named occupier for which site, and what personal exposure attaches to which obligation.
“We had a compliance calendar for the head office and three plant managers keeping their own spreadsheets. Nobody could tell the board what the group position was, because there was no group position.”
Other sectors
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See it scoped to a manufacturing footprint
We configure your legal entities, licences and jurisdictions and run live intelligence for two weeks. You compare it against what your team actually caught in the same period.