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An extract from article ‘Why Is Product Data Important To Manufacturers?’
Full article available at
https://communities.theiet.org/ blogs/948/6985
“When we talk about product data for manufacturers, we’re talking about the wide range of information generated about their products. “When products are made for construction projects, a vast amount of information is created, but only some is shared, and often in an inconsistent way. Some of this information may be published in Declarations of Performance but not all products are required to have a DOP. “The 2018 report ‘A Fresh Way Forward for
Product Data: State of the Nation’ set out some of the problems with the journey of product information through the construction supply chain. In essence it identified how information does not pass smoothly between manufacture, design, construction and operation stages. For example, a designer looking for information about a product they want to specify or assess, cannot know if the information they are looking at on a company website is current, or accurate. This creates risk. “If the information that is created about
products were to be made secure, was verified and was interoperable, the designer would not have to guess. They could access the accurate information about available products all the time, with confidence, and other members of the supply chain could access the same data.”
John Parsons, director digital, BEAMA, said:
“BEAMA welcomes the launch of this series of blogs. Making digital product data available is an increasingly urgent topic and industry needs to understand what to do.” Christophe Sykes of CPE had this to say on
regulation: “One of the characteristics of the European industry is that we have the Construction Products Regulation (CPR). It lays down harmonised rules for the Single Market of construction products in the EU. The Regulation offers a common technical language, allowing the assessment of the performance of construction products, and ensuring the delivery of reliable technical data to the market. More recently, our Smart CE marking initiative allows this regulated data to be delivered in a harmonised digital format.
“We welcome this initiative to help manufacturers understand how digitisation can help compliance.” Blane Judd, Chair of IET Built Environment
Panel, said: “One of the goals of the IET’s Built Environment Panel is to support the digitalisation of the built environment sector. This still has a long way to go and a better understanding and management of product data will make a significant contribution to this journey. Delivering built as designed buildings which will perform better and are safer can be a reality. I am pleased to see the culmination of a lot of effort in the launch of the “plain language guide”. We are excited at the prospect of new, fresh, open conversations on the topic of product data.” New International Standards published this
year make it possible for information to be provided in a standardised, interoperable way, and the project team believe that a simple process will allow manufacturers to make their products traceable and protect against fraud and incompatible product substitution.
The first discussion group was held on Zoom on 11 September. Those who want to participate can subscribe to the articles at
https://www.theiet.org/impact- society/sectors/built-environment/built- environment-blog-posts/subscribe-to- manufacturers-product-data-a-plain- language-guide/
For more information, visit
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