标准2025标准的协调对数字数据交换是个突破
作为电子电气设备标准制定及零部件检测体系领域（提供各类一致性检测并管理着四大电子电气设备及零部件检测体系）内最重要的全球性机构，国际电工委员会（IEC）和eCl@ss e. V机构（提供商品分类描述服务的行业协会组织）签署了一项合作协议，该合作协议旨在IEC共同资料字典数据库（CDD）和eCl@ss e. V数据字典之间实现数据内容的传输和共享。
此次合作主要是基于已经在全球范围内使用的IEC标准，着重满足人类对国际交流和数字信息交换的需求。在“d-m@p”项目框架内，IEC及eCl@ss e. V正组织专家全力制定一种商品分类体系，该分类体系可提高产品信息特征及其属性的可读性，伴随着数字化进程的推进，各企业面临着日益严峻的电子数据交换挑战。
该合作协议规定，此次分类体系的内容解释权归IEC61987-工业过程测量与控制.过程设备目录的数据结构和元素、IEC6130-电气元件标准数据元类型和相关分类模式以及eCl@ss Segment 27：电气工程及其自动化、过程控制工程所有。
为便于用户查看IEC和eCl@ss的共同数据资料，须保证资料形式统一、同时具有较高识别度。
马库斯.睿金是西门子公司技术管理和标准统一部的部门主管，他解释说：“市场导向型企业已经认识到，规范、结构化、明确分类并伴有对特性全面描述的产品数据，是在B2B，工业4.0和智能建筑等领域推进数字化的杠杆”。
IEC技术官马太.康姆鲁称：“该协议的签署标志着未来产品分类及描述体系不仅要符合IEC现行国际标准，同时也符合eCl@ss的分类特性。制定统一的产品描述体系和重合内容统一标准将减少人们对产品信息以及产品使用性能的误解，为产品终端用户创造便利”。
eCl@ss 标准体系下拥有超过40000个标准信息组合以及17000多条产品性能描述，可为各企业提供有效的产品信息传达途径，这些信息传达方式基本获得全球认可，同时可避免传媒的不一致性导致的信息损失。到目前为止，全球范围内有超过3300多家企业认识到eCl@ss 标准的优势，因而采用了这一标准。
此次与IEC的合作进一步凸显了eCl@ss产品分类描述标准的重要性及其未来发展潜力，表明eCl@ss标准日益成为独立于各行各业之外的全球性产品数据及分类标准。
International cooperation between the IEC and eCl@ss e. V.
Harmonization of standards a breakthrough for digital data exchange
The IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) the world’s foremost organization that prepares and publishes globally relevant International Standards for all electric and electronic devices and systems supports all forms of conformity assessment and administers four Conformity Assessment Systems that certify that components, equipment and systems, and eCl@ss e. V., the industry association providing the classification and description system eCl@ss, have signed a cooperation agreement which aims to facilitate the automatic transfer of shared content between the IEC Common Data Dictionaries (CDD) and eCl@ss dictionaries.
The cooperation between the IEC and eCl@ss e. V. centres on the requirements of international and digital information exchange based on globally implemented Standards of the IEC. In the framework of the project “d-m@p,” experts from the IEC and eCl@ss e. V. are developing a mapping system that makes product data characteristics and attributes reciprocally readable. As digitization proceeds, companies are increasingly faced with the challenge of electronic data exchange.
Under this Cooperation Agreement the content for mapping belongs to IEC 61987, lndustrial-process measurement and control – Data structures and elements in process equipment catalogues; IEC 61360, Standard data element types with associated classification scheme for electric components; and eCl@ss Segment 27: Electric engineering, automation, process control engineering.
For the benefit of eCl@ass and IEC CDD users, common content shall be identified and easily accessible in a harmonized form.
Markus Reigl, head of the central department of technical regulation and standardization at Siemens AG, explains: “Market-leading companies have recognized that normatively structured product data, unambiguously classified and accompanied by a comprehensive description of characteristics, is the lever by which to advance digitization in highly diverse applications in such areas as B2B, Industry 4.0, and smart buildings.”
“This agreement means that classifications and product descriptions will conform to both current IEC International Standards and eCl@ss properties. Mapping and long-term harmonization of content overlap will benefit end-users through reduced misunderstandings in interpretation and in the use of product properties,” said IEC Technical Officer Matei Cocimarov.
With over 40 000 groups and more than 17 000 characteristics, the eCl@ss standard provides companies with a means of product data communication that is internationally recognized and free of media discontinuity. Already, more than 3 300 companies worldwide are convinced of the advantages and are using the eCl@ss standard.
The cooperation with the IEC underscores the importance and steady further development of eCl@ss as an international and sector-independent standard for product data and classification.