Product Data Standards Glossary

The standards, formats, and directives that matter when you manage product data for industrial and technical catalogs. Concise, practitioner-focused.

Classification Standards

European Technical Information Model — the standard classification system for technical products in electrical, HVAC, and plumbing.

International classification standard for products and services, widely used in German manufacturing and procurement.

United Nations Standard Products and Services Code — a procurement classification used in SAP, Oracle, and government purchasing.

XML-based standard for electronic product catalog exchange between suppliers and buyers.

XML/JSON format for exchanging ETIM-classified product data between trading partners.

Global standards for product identification and data synchronization — the backbone of retail and FMCG supply chains.

The globally unique product identifier behind every barcode — EAN, UPC, and ISBN are all GTINs.

Digital representation of buildings and infrastructure — increasingly requires structured product data from manufacturers.

Open data format for BIM — the way building product data is exchanged between software systems.

EU directive governing the design and manufacture of pressure equipment — a common compliance attribute in industrial catalogs.

EU directives for equipment used in explosive atmospheres — critical compliance data for industrial and process industry products.

European conformity marking indicating a product meets EU safety, health, and environmental requirements.

FacetFlux classifies to ETIM, exports as BMEcat or your buyer's own template, and normalizes values — all from one catalog.