For a manufacturer or distributor of construction materials, the technical datasheet is the product’s business card. And it is often these sheets that cause the most lost time and errors.
The problem with sheets in Word and Excel
A construction product sheet contains dozens of data points: dimensions, performance values, application areas, standard references and CE documentation. Once that lives in separate Word and Excel files, version drift is inevitable.
We see it often: a product manager, sometimes at director level, spends hours each week in an Excel template composing sheets. The file sits on a shared drive or SharePoint, opens slowly, and the result still doesn’t look professional.
Without a PIM
- Four versions of the same sheet
- Standards in separate documents
- Every language updated separately
- No audit trail at inspection
With PimLayer
- One source, identical everywhere
- Standards linked to the product
- All languages in one workflow
- Complete version history
A data model built for construction products
In PimLayer you define per product family which attributes are mandatory: strength, fire class, thermal conductivity, application area. Variants inherit that structure, so a series of a hundred dimensions stays consistent without a hundred manual copies.
- Structured attributes with units and validation
- Variants and families with value inheritance
- CE marking, declaration of performance and EN standards linked to the product
- Automatic saving and logging of every change
Print-ready sheets, automatic and multilingual
This is where the biggest gain sits. PimLayer generates commercial and technical sheets as print-ready PDFs, on the fly, in multiple languages and even with a different logo per market or brand. One source, and the right compliant sheet rolls out automatically for every language and channel.
Publishing to every channel
The same source also feeds your webshop, dealer portal and marketplaces, via a connector or the open API. A change appears everywhere and in all languages at once.
Source: Construction Products Regulation (EU) 2024/3110 (EUR-Lex).