Release 8.0

General information

A license for ECLASS Release 8.0 includes all available languages in the export formats BASIC (csv and XML) and ADVANCED (XML).
 

ECLASS 8.0 was released on Dec 2, 2012.

The ECLASS Release 8.0 is an enhancement and modification of Release 7.1 and contains in comparison:

  • approx. 320 new classes
  • numerous re-structured classes (240 moves, 230 joins, 160 splits)
  • approx. 6,000 edited classes by re-naming all 90-classes from "unclassified" to "unspecified"
  • approx. 500 new properties
  • more than 100,000 new class-property-relations (BASIC and ADVANCED)
  • approx. 370 new values
  • approx. 70 new value lists
  • 900 new relations of values to value lists
  • 300 constraints (limitation of values in a value lists in the context of a class)
  • approx. 130 new keywords
  • ONLY IN ADVANCED:
    • 32,000 new ADVANCED application classes for all ECLASS classes
    • incl. Assignments of the aspects Commercial, Identification, Information and – where necessary - REACH, RoHS, Battery designation, WEEE
    • incl. the mapping of all BASIC properties to ADVANCED properties
    • 75 new property blocks
    • > 500 new relations of properties to blocks

These changes of the content are based on the following measures

  • Re-structuring of adhesives from segment 24 to segment 23
  • Re-structuring of the 90/91/92-classes ascording to the new concept as a pilot in segment 32 (complete re-structuring of the ECLASS classification system is planned for 9.0)
  • New content and re-structuring in segment 34 in the areas of desinfection, implants, ostomy care and above all medical clothing and gloves from segment 40
  • Requests for the finalization of the harmonization with the classification system PROLIST as preparation for the organizational merge (the PROLIST association will merge into the ECLASS association)
  • Requests by the expert group on CAx
  • Product description of the classes in segment 29 in the area of small and large household appliances
  • Correction of the properties concerning the topics REAH, RoHS, Battery designation and WEEE (removal of the properties from the basic sets of properties lists and assignment to only relevant classes)
  • Correction of invalid descriptive codes (CodedNames) and re-naming of the 90-classes to "unspecified" incl. a generic definition
  • Correction of class duplicates
  • Correction of mismatches between units and related DIN quantities of a property
  • Introduction of value lists (No change in the BASIC version)
  • Changes in ADVANCED:
  • Values were moved from the templates into the dictionary and therein assigned to value lists
  • Open value lists: ECLASS interpretes its value lists as open, i.e. as suggestions that cannot guarantee exhaustiveness. As the ISO defines value lists as restrictive and exclusive, i.e. only those values of a value list are valid for a property and no others, ECLASS had to change its structure to be ISO-compliant. Therefore ECLASS distinguishes now between restrictive value lists (in the ISO-sense) that include on the one side only BOOLEAN property-value-relations and values creating a polymorphism and on the other side suggested lists (proposed "open" lists that are neither exclusive nor exhaustive and only in the context of a class).
  • Introduction of constraints: with release 8.0 ECLASS introduces constraints, i.e. the limitation of a set of values of a property in the context of a class.

E.g. a property "colour" might have the value list [red;yellow;green]. For a class "traffic light" all colours are valid, but for class "pedestrian traffic light" only [red;green] might be valid, i.e. a constraint is created for the value "yellow".

  • Therefore all values (except restricted values, see 3.1.5) are to be seen in the context of a class

   

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