Product Information Management
Speak ETIM, ECLASS and UNSPSC without giving up your own taxonomy.
Map your classes and attributes to the industrial standards your customers and partners require, convert values to their units and manage new releases deliberately.
The capability
Semantic compatibility, not just a category code
Industrial buyers, wholesalers and procurement systems increasingly expect product data structured to recognized standards. ETIM and ECLASS define classes with specific technical features and units, while UNSPSC provides a commodity hierarchy used widely for procurement and spend analysis. Your internal taxonomy, built for your business, rarely matches any of them exactly.
Autonera maintains crosswalks between your local classes and each standard's classes, and between your attributes and the standard's features. Values are converted to the units the standard expects when data is exchanged, while your source values and units are preserved. Attributes with no standard equivalent are clearly identified so you can decide whether to map, extend or omit them.
Standards publish new releases. Each release is loaded as a version, compared with the release you have adopted, and the changed features are surfaced for review before mappings are updated, so syndication does not break when a standard evolves.
Functional capabilities
What Industrial Classification & Standards Mapping includes
- Versioned standards
- Load and track releases of ETIM, ECLASS, UNSPSC and other classification standards your organization licenses.
- Class crosswalks
- Map local classes to standard classes, including one-to-many and many-to-one relationships.
- Feature and attribute mapping
- Map local attributes to standard features with value lists and units.
- Unit conversion for exchange
- Convert values into the standard's units at export while keeping source values intact.
- Release impact review
- Compare releases and review affected mappings before adopting a new version.
- Coverage reporting
- See which classes and attributes are mapped and which remain gaps.
How it works
Crosswalk a local class to three standards
Choose a local class and a standard. Review feature mappings and converted values, map an unmapped attribute, then switch to the new release to see what changes before adoption.
| Local attribute | Local value | ETIM feature | Exchanged value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Max pressure | 600 psi | Max. operating pressure | 41.4 bar |
| Max temperature | 400 °F | Max. medium temperature | 204.4 °C |
| Port size | 1 in | Nominal connection size | 25.4 mm |
| Body material | Bronze | Housing material | Bronze |
| Port type | Full port | Bore type | Full port |
| Handle color | Red | Not exchanged |
CROSSWALK COVERAGE
5 / 6
- 3 values converted to the standard's unit
- Unmapped: Handle color
Standards content is used under each organization's licensing terms. Supported releases are confirmed during evaluation.
In industrial operations
An electrical and fluid-power wholesaler supplies European partners
A wholesaler expanding into Europe must deliver ETIM-structured data to buying groups while its North American catalog uses an internal taxonomy and imperial units.
- Local classes are crosswalked to ETIM classes, and attributes to ETIM features.
- Pressure, temperature and size values are converted to metric units for exchange.
- Unmapped attributes are reviewed: some are mapped, others are kept internal.
- When a new ETIM release is published, changed features are reviewed before mappings are updated.
Result: Partners receive standards-structured data from the same master that feeds the domestic catalog.
Problems it solves
Where this work usually breaks down
- 01
One-off exports per standard
Each customer request for ETIM or ECLASS data becomes a spreadsheet project that is repeated next year.
- 02
Category codes without features
A class code alone does not satisfy partners who require structured technical features and units.
- 03
Unit mismatches in exchanged data
Pressures in psi and temperatures in Fahrenheit are sent where bar and Celsius are required.
- 04
Releases that break mappings
A new standards release renames or adds features and existing exports fail validation.
Related capabilities
Works alongside
Product Hierarchies & Taxonomy
Classification trees with inherited category requirements and controlled reassignment.
Feature guideProduct Data Modeling
Configurable entities, typed attributes, groups and calculated values for technical products.
Feature guidePackaging & Trade-Item Hierarchies
Each, inner, case and pallet levels with quantities, weights and identifiers.
Feature guideSchema Drift & Data Contracts
Detect source schema changes, assess mapping impact and approve controlled updates.
Capability areaProduct Information Management
See where Industrial Classification & Standards Mapping fits in the wider Product Information Management capability.
Autonomous operations
How autonomous execution changes industrial classification & standards mapping
Agents propose class and feature mappings from product data and standard definitions, and prepare release-upgrade plans for review.
Agents carry out
- Suggest standard classes for local classes and products
- Propose feature mappings with value-list alignment
- Detect values that cannot be converted to the required unit
- Prepare release comparison and remapping plans
People decide
- Approve crosswalks and feature mappings
- Decide release adoption timing
- Own licensing and standards scope
Evidence recorded
- Basis for each proposed mapping
- Release comparisons and decisions
- Conversion applied to every exchanged value
Buyer FAQs
Questions evaluators ask
Which standards are supported?
Autonera is designed to manage ETIM, ECLASS, UNSPSC and similar classification standards as versioned reference data. Specific supported releases and formats are confirmed during evaluation.
Do we need licenses for these standards?
Some standards require membership or a license to use their content. Autonera manages the content you are entitled to use; licensing remains your organization's responsibility.
Do we have to replace our internal taxonomy?
No. Your taxonomy remains your primary structure, and crosswalks translate it to each standard for exchange.
How are units handled?
Source values and units are preserved. Values are converted to the standard's required unit when data is exported or syndicated.
What happens when a new release is published?
The release is loaded as a new version and compared with the adopted one. Changed features are reviewed before mappings are updated.
Your next step
See Industrial Classification & Standards Mapping on data like yours.
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