The fact that companies using ECLASS avoid redundancies in product master data, in addition to other advantages of the standard, has long been known. But what about redundant structural elements within the Standard? For example, we find " Salad servers" both in segment 29 " Home economics" in class 29090401 and in segment 50 " Interior furnishing" in class 50100206.

What is Manufacturing-X and what is it used for?

D&TS proposes an innovative way to integrate high-quality real-time data directly into engineering tools and leading systems.

Fabian Schwanitz manages the release process for ECLASS. In an interview, we ask our questions about the upcoming Release 14.0, which is scheduled to be launched in December 2023, and the major changes in the release process.

The BMEcat format is established worldwide for the exchange of electronic catalogs. We have now published a revised technical specification for the full implementation of ECLASS in BMEcat.

In order to further strengthen the ECLASS Standard internationally and to represent the interests of the association and its members in a bundled manner, ECLASS e.V. increasingly engages in global and national standardization organizations. The joint standardization projects benefit from the exchange of expert knowledge and strengthen the level of awareness of ECLASS.

We are introducing a new XML Schema! The new Schema is to be used starting with BETA Release 14.0, which will be made available to the ECLASS developers community for testing mid-August, 2023.

In the Beta Phase of Release 14.0 we are providing full translations of the ECLASS content, besides English, for the first time in several additional languages.