The planning and operation of manufacturing and production facilities brings a variety of challenges. Reliable material master data based on ECLASS sustainably supports the entire life cycle of a production plant. With eptos™ master data solutions, you can not only map ECLASS BASIC and ADVANCED in all versions, but also integrate a variety of other classification standards as well as company-specific structures, workflows and extensions.

Why ECLASS, the cross-industry standard for product classification, on the one hand, and eptos™, one of the leading solutions for material master data management, on the other, are an unbeatable duo...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has only been familiar to us for a few years, but its influence is growing rapidly.

When a data standard such as ECLASS is being continuously developed up to version 14, this indicates a steady demand on the market. But what are the advantages and have they already arrived on the market? Josef Schmelter from Phoenix Contact, Peter Oel from Ingenieurbüro Peter Oel and Stefan Mülhens, Managing Director of AmpereSoft, discuss this and more.

More than 150,000 Change Requests were submitted by the deadline of April 30, 2024. Since mid-June, the ALPHA version is available for testing by experts in the ECLASS community.

Over 150,000 change requests and nine additional languages for ECLASS Release 15.0: ECLASS will be the only data standard to offer a total of 26 languages, reaching over 60% of the world's population and covering both European and international markets.

The newly founded ECLASS Expert Group “Robotic” met on April 30, 2024 for the kick-off meeting.

Interoperability plays a central role in digital transformation and is essential for an efficient data economy. The "2nd Interoperability Summit - Efficient through the digital transformation" brings together various industries and promotes dialogue on solutions.