Como a certificação de um componente é avaliada

You never type a component's certifications in by hand — TexCloud works them out from what the component is made of. This is why uploading one company certificate can make part of your catalog qualify and leave the rest untouched.

What you pick in the Composition step depends on where you sit in the supply chain. A fiber supplier builds on TexCloud's base fiber components. A yarn producer builds on the fiber components of their own fiber suppliers. A weaver builds on yarn components from their spinners, and so on up the chain. Each link inherits from the link below it, so a fully mapped chain ends up resting on TexCloud's base fiber components several levels down — and your component's certifications reflect that whole chain, not only the suppliers you buy from directly.

How the evaluation works

1. TexCloud follows your component's composition down through every level to the base materials. Quantities are read as percentages and multiplied down, so a fabric that is 50% of a yarn which is itself 80% organic cotton contributes 40% organic cotton to the total.
2. Each certification's rules are checked against that breakdown. A rule compares a measure — the share of the composition already carrying a given certification, the share belonging to a category, the share of one specific fiber, or the number of subcomponents in a category — against a threshold, using a comparator like "at least 80%". Rules come in groups, and every rule in a group must pass for its certification to be granted.
3. The result is matched against your company's own certifications. A component can only carry what your company actively holds — so a composition that satisfies every rule for a certification still won't show it unless your company has a valid certificate for it on its profile.

The calculation runs again every time the component or its composition is saved, so changing your quantities updates the result immediately. It also re-runs across the catalog whenever the certification rules themselves change.

Previewing before you save

While creating a component, once you've picked your subcomponents and entered their quantities, you can preview which certifications the result would qualify for before saving it.

If a component shows fewer certifications than you expected

• Your company doesn't hold that certification yet, or its record is expired or still pending review — see How to add your certifications.
• Something further down the chain isn't certified, so the certified share falls below the threshold. It doesn't have to be a component you buy directly — an uncertified material several levels below still pulls the total down.
• The percentages are right but simply don't reach the threshold the rule requires.

Each certificate's own page on TexCloud shows the rules that apply to it, so you can check the exact thresholds you need to hit.