Concepts and benefits of the German ISO 13584 compliant online dictionary www.DINsml.net

Data management is determined nowadays in most enterprises by classification or numbering systems and master data records. The description depth achieved with these methods does not meet the requirements of product lifecycle management (PLM). Each product classification structure is always created from only one viewpoint. The user has to know the structure of the product classification schema in order to search successfully. Another still not completely satisfying approach are class lists of characteristics (CLC). To resolve the problems in data management and exchange, the ISO 13584 is a suitable standard. It uses a property based approach for a product model which is used for product classification. The major challenge in property based product classification is clear semantics of the properties. To ensure this, www.DINsml.net a cross-industry online dictionary with the purpose of making standardized product properties available was created. Both trade and industry combine their efforts to compile standardized properties for the description and naming of products and make these available in an online database.