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Elsewhere in the world, forests are being cleared to produce agricultural products for consumption in the European Union (EU). To combat deforestation and forest degradation worldwide, the European Union adopted the Deforestation Regulation in June 2023. In addition to timber, the regulation covers soy,  cocoa, coffee, cattle and rubber, as well as products made from them, such as furniture and seals.

Together with the experts of the ECLASS working group, Christian Block has published a Technical Specification for ECLASS as a Resource Description Framework (RDF). In this interview, he talks about the challenges of the project and the importance of RDF for the future of digital standards.

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.