Driving Digital Transformation: Insights from the ECLASS Congress 2025
With a strong focus on the Digital Product Passport, semantic interoperability, and smart manufacturing, the ECLASS Congress 2025 delivered actionable insights and global perspectives. Experts and practitioners from 17 countries came together to explore how standardized data is driving innovation across industries — and how ECLASS continues to evolve as a cornerstone of digital transformation.
Insights into the work of the ECLASS Expert Group 34 | Interview with Dr. Oliver Heinemann
How does ECLASS integrate industry-specific requirements into its standard in such a precise and practical way? In this interview, Dr. Oliver Heinemann, Head of Expert Group 34, "Medical Devices," offers fascinating insights into the importance of expert knowledge, the development of healthcare classification, and his personal motivations for getting involved with ECLASS.
Digital Product Passports made easy - with BCON² & BEATS
Save time, comply with regulations, and stay in control. With BCON² and BEATS, you can quickly create Digital Product Passports (DPPs) that are legally compliant and free of technical hurdles. This is ideal for SMEs and test runs in departments of large companies that want to work smart and future-proof.
Many companies are unprepared for the digital product passport, which will bring with it major challenges.
In the latest issue of iwd, the German Economic Institute reports: 'The EU is pushing ahead with the introduction of digital product passports (DPPs) in numerous industries.' However, many companies are neither informed nor prepared for this development. The article goes on to explain why sharing standardised product data is now crucial and what role standards such as ECLASS can play.”
Further News
AI-powered search revolutionizes the ECLASS Standard
The new AI-powered search solution from ECLASS subsidiary BCON² GmbH is a powerful technology that takes the application of the ECLASS Standard to a new level. This impressive solution offers high speed, precise results and a wide range of applications, from product classification to standard development.
BCON² - Standards made easy: From ECLASS modeling to DPP infrastructure
BCON² stands for Business, Content, Consulting - and with BEATS offers a scalable, web-based platform that not only makes standards such as ECLASS, BMEcat and AAS accessible, but also user-friendly. The subsidiary of ECLASS e.V. is thus making a decisive contribution to digital transformation along the entire product data chain.
New version of the IDTA submodel Technical Data – Structure and use of the submodel with ECLASS
Technical group work on linear technology and robotics
Work in the field of linear technology is in full swing for the release of ECLASS 16.0.