Klaus Bröhl has been supporting medium-sized companies in their digital transformation for more than 40 years. He is the founder and CEO of Integrated Worlds GmbH, a service provider that supports hundreds of projects along the entire value chain and operates e-business service provider for companies across Europe. With more than 1,000 connected companies, the B2B platform IWOfurn is an important SaaS service provider for the European furniture industry. As a co-initiator of Furtnutire-X, he and Integration Worlds GmbH are involved in the development of a sovereign and technically open data ecosystem for the provision and integrated use of digital twins and, in the future, the DPP. Always on the lookout for innovative concepts and with a practical eye for the needs and expectations of his customers, he and his team combine technology and process know-how to create holistic concepts. Fore more than thirty years, he has always been committed to the standardization of B2B communication along the value chain. In addition, he develops digital business models with Integrated Worlds GmbH through the use of business intelligence and the future use of artificial intelligence as well as on the digital aspects of a circular economy. In addition to all the technology, he always relies on a healthy mix with the company's understanding of roles and strengths in their traditional core business.
10th International ECLASS Congress
Cologne | September 24, 2025
Agenda
10:00 a.m.
Welcome
10:45 a.m.
Semantics for electric devices, Best Practice from Schneider Electric
11:15 a.m.
Coffee break & networking
11:35 a.m.
Data management with ECLASS in the product life cycle
Heiko Gebhardt
Director Product Data Management PDM | B.Braun SE
12:05 p.m.
ECLASS as semantics in data exchange
Artur Bondza
Head of Product Information & Content Management | Pepperl+Fuchs Group
12:35 p.m.
Lunch break & networking
14:00 p.m.
A journey through 25 years of ECLASS
Thorsten Kroke
General Manager ECLASS Head Office | IW Consult GmbH
14:30 p.m.
Furniture-X - The path to building a date ecosystem based on AAS for a circular furniture industry
Klaus Bröhl
Founder & Managing Director | Integrated Worlds GmbH
15:00 p.m.
Coffee break & networking
15:40 p.m.
Break-out sessions I + II
I
ECLASS in sales-oriented data management
Frank Scherenschlich
CEO | Class.Ing
Use your own property-based product data for efficient mapping in accordance with ECLASS. Benefit from the automated creation of earlier versions of the classification standard and simple mapping to other standards. Easily export your data to formats such as BMEcat, CIN, Excel and AAS - the latter with a special focus on the Technical Data submodel.
II
Benefits of ECLASS in product master data
Reinhard Pohn
CEO | Paradine GmbH
16:15 p.m.
Break-out sessions III + IV
III
D&TS at the cutting edge: AI meets ECLASS, AAS and SAP in the master data management of the future
Paulo Ferreira
Managing Director | D&TS GmbH
IV
Digital Product Passport (DPP) meets ECLASS - Create thousands of DPP based on ECLASS and Neoception
Dr. Jörg Nagel
Managing Director | Neoception GmbH
Adrian Grüner
Director of Sales Excellence | Neoception GmbH
Join our session to learn step by step how to create your very first own DPP plus how to automate the creation and maintenance of thousands of DPPs. Perfect Session for mid- and big size manufacturing companies, struggling with the DPP creation due to their wide product portfolio including a wide range of variants and the pure quantity of products produced. The session will additionally be framed with an insight into the regulatory process (timelines and minimum requirements).