ETIM
ETIM Germany e. V. is an initiative to standardize the electronic exchange of product data in the field of electrical engineering (electrical installation products, household appliances and consumer electronics) and related industries (currently HVAC / sanitary technology ) to enable electronic trading of these products. ETIM originally stood for European Technical Information Model or Electrotechnical Information Model . After the inclusion of further industries and the distribution beyond Europe, the Ein ETIM today no longer for a specific term. The standard is specifically geared to the requirements of these selected industries and allows the uniform, technical description of goods and assignment to a product class. Products are assigned to article classes without hierarchy. The higher-level product groups summarize article classes thematically, but only serve the internal organization of the data model, although they are also published.
Comparable products are then classified in the article class. The name of the article class can also be found using assigned synonyms that refer to the class. Each class is assigned technical characteristics that describe the product. This is how the ETIM classification is created .
The standardization allows supplier-independent engineering products on the basis of class or technical characteristics recover. ETIM is used for the transmission of technical product data (e.g. for online catalogs). This transfer takes place via XML in an extended BMEcat format, a standardized data format for electronic product data exchange.
ETIM is basically a free standard, i. H. the data model can be used by anyone without license fees.
ETIM versions
The data model and all content are exactly the same in all countries.
- ETIM Version 2.0 was released on June 16, 2002.
- ETIM Version 3.0 was published on May 30, 2005 in German and English.
- ETIM Version 4.0 was published on January 15, 2008 in German, English and Dutch. A corrected version was published on March 27, 2008. The changes only apply to some units.
- After the establishment of ETIM International in 2008, the following versions are in German, English (British English), Dutch, Belgian Dutch (Flemish), French, Belgian French, Swiss French, Spanish, Polish, Swedish, Italian, Swiss Italian , Norwegian, Finnish, Danish and successively other languages available.
- ETIM version 5.0 was released on June 6, 2011.
- ETIM version 6.0 was released on April 25, 2014.
- ETIM version 7.0 was released on September 1st, 2017. For the first time, in addition to the electrical sector, the SHK (sanitary, heating, air conditioning, ventilation) sector is also included.
There are also assignment tables between the individual ETIM versions and the classification standard eCl @ ss .
internationalization
On October 24th, 2008 the international association "ETIM International" was founded in Barcelona at a meeting of the national ETIM organizations from Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. The new organization is based in Brussels . Every national member is automatically a member of ETIM International.
As of February 2018, there are independent ETIM organizations in the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Great Britain, USA / Canada, Slovakia and Russia.
In addition, ETIM is used in a number of other countries in which no independent organization exists.
Cooperation with other organizations
ETIM cooperates with a number of associations and standardization initiatives, including a.
- eCl @ ss eV - there are also assignment tables (mapping)
- proficl @ ss International eV
- PI - the standard of the household appliance industry (ceced association)
- ZVEI , VDMA
literature
- Wolfgang Brenner / Tina Galuschka: Classification in Practice . A. Bernecker Verlag, Melsungen 2008, ISBN 978-3-87064-129-0 .