One source of truth for your ETIM features, energy labels and EPREL registrations.
Luminous flux, colour temperature, UGR and DALI for the wholesaler, the energy label with the scale range and the product information sheet for every webshop, Recupel and Bebat for the DIY chains, manuals in NL, FR and DE. Every value once, with unit, and automatically in the format that Cebeo, bol and Brico ask for.
Product fiche · automatic
liveFour channels, four formats, one Excel that knows none of them.
The wholesaler asks why the UGR value and the DALI features of 40 downlights are missing from the BMEcat file. bol takes 23 products offline because the product information sheet is not attached to the listing. The DIY chain wants the Recupel contribution and the packaging weight per piece, box and pallet for the GS1 database. And the French manual on the webshop still refers to the previous generation.
Luminous flux in three columns
'1450', '1,450 lm' and '1450lm' in three files for three channels. ETIM wants one numeric feature in lm, EPREL the same value on the product information sheet, and your webshop a filter. Three columns are three chances for an error.
Offline because of the energy label
bol has been taking products without label and product information sheet offline since April 2026, MediaMarkt Saturn requires the EPREL ID as a mandatory field, and the Commission found in 2026 that 97 percent of inspected webshops did not display the label correctly.
Manuals in a folder
The Code of Economic Law requires the instructions in NL, FR and DE. One PDF 'manual_all_languages' in a folder, linked to nothing, is what customer service finds when the air fryer changes generation.
Product data in order in the electrical sector
A 33-page working guide for product and marketing managers at producers, brand owners and distributors of lighting, installation material and household appliances. No PIM theory, but what you actually do.
- A field model for the electrical sector you can adopt right away, from model identifier to photometric file
- ETIM for the wholesaler, EPREL and the energy label for the legislator, GS1 for the DIY chains: what is mandatory, what your customers already ask for and what can wait
- Energy label and EPREL registration, ecodesign for light sources, the right to repair, Recupel and Bebat, RoHS, USB-C and the new cyber rules for connected devices
- A one-month plan, from Excel inventory to a first channel fed automatically
- Excel works, until it doesn't
- The field model for the electrical sector
- ETIM and EPREL: the two languages of the electrical sector
- Energy label, ecodesign, repair and the CE directives
- From one source to every channel
- Live in one month: what it costs and returns
Every photometric value once, three channels fed.
Specifications with unit and decimals
Luminous flux, power, colour temperature, Ra and R9, beam angle, L70B50, PstLM and SVM: every value once in the specification library. The ETIM mapping translates them into EF codes and value lists; the EPREL link supplies them for registration.
EPREL assets on the model
Model identifier exactly as in EPREL, registration number and URL, class with scale range, and label (PNG, SVG, PDF) and product information sheet per language straight from EPREL as documents on the model. The variants inherit them; you never publish an outdated label.
ETIM to Cebeo, Rexel, Solar and Desco
Link your products to the ETIM classes, map your specifications to the features and export in BMEcat or ETIM xChange, with a short description of 80 characters, long text in HTML and images of at least 1000 by 1000 px as the Sonepar guidelines require. Or via the Techlink Data Portal.
Three manuals, one product
Manual NL, FR and DE, declaration of conformity, LDT or IES file and BIM object hang as documents on the product, with version and date. PimLayer is PIM and DAM in one, so they flow to every channel that asks for them.
What your product data must be able to do in the electrical sector.
A selection from the field model in the whitepaper, for lighting; for household appliances you replace the photometric specifications with those of the product group's product information sheet.
Identification
Article number, GTIN per packaging level, model identifier exactly as in EPREL and on the label, EPREL registration number and URL, ETIM class with version, GPC brick for the DIY chains, manufacturer and responsible economic operator in the EU.
Light
Useful luminous flux in lm, luminous efficacy, colour temperature in K, Ra and R9, colour consistency (SDCM), beam angle and light distribution, flicker PstLM and stroboscopic effect SVM, lifetime L70B50, UGR, dimmable with protocol (DALI-2, D4i, Zigbee), cap, replaceability of light source and driver.
Electrical
Power on, standby and networked standby, voltage and frequency, protection class I, II or III, IP rating (separate for front and rear in ETIM 10) and IK rating.
Energy label
Energy efficiency class with scale range, energy consumption in kWh per 1000 h or per 100 cycles, label as PNG, SVG and PDF and product information sheet per language, repairability score for smartphones and tablets.
Compliance
Applicable directives and EU declaration of conformity (low voltage, EMC, RoHS, RED, ecodesign), quality marks with number, manual and safety information per language, USB-C pictogram and charging power, radio frequencies and software support period, repair information and parts availability.
Producer responsibility and assets
Recupel category and contribution, battery with chemistry, capacity, replaceability and Bebat code, WEEE symbol, packaging levels with material and weight, packshot on white, ambience image, dimensional drawing, photometric file (LDT, IES, GLDF) and BIM object.
The complete field model, with level (product, variant), data type, unit and the channel for which each field is mandatory, is in chapter 3 of the whitepaper.
ETIM for the wholesaler, EPREL for the legislator, GS1 for the chains.
What each channel asks for, and what PimLayer exports per channel.
Live in one month, product group by product group.
No long IT project. This is the order from the whitepaper, as we apply it at Belgian lighting and electrical brands.
Inventory and data design
Which Excels, which channels, which customers. Product tree (model and variant on light colour, power, housing colour), specification library with units and decimals, taxonomy and validation rules.
Field model, ETIM and EPREL
Your Excel columns mapped to the specifications, products linked to the ETIM classes, model identifier checked against EPREL, label and product information sheet as assets on the model, energy class split into class plus range.
Documents and contributions
Manuals per language, declarations of conformity and LDT files on the product, Recupel and Bebat contributions as separate fields, support period for connected devices, price and stock from the ERP.
First channel live
The wholesaler, your webshop or the GS1 database fed automatically. Then you scale up, product group by product group and channel by channel.
Frequently asked questions from the electrical sector
Does PimLayer work with the energy label and the EPREL registration?
Yes. The energy label, the product information sheet and the EPREL registration number are linked to the model, with version control; the variants inherit them. That way you never publish a wrong or outdated label and you show the class with the scale range online.
Does PimLayer support ETIM for the electrical wholesalers?
Yes. You link your products to the ETIM classes and map your specifications to the features, and export in BMEcat or ETIM xChange to wholesalers and data pools. What the class asks for and you don't have shows up as a gap in your readiness before you deliver.
How do I manage manuals and declarations of conformity in three languages?
As documents that hang on the product, per language, with version and date. PimLayer is a PIM and a DAM in one, so the manual NL, FR and DE, the declaration of conformity and the LDT file sit on the product and flow to every channel that asks for them.
What if a marketplace takes my products offline because of the energy label?
Then the product information sheet, the EPREL ID or the scale range is usually missing. With product readiness per channel you see that before you publish; with the EPREL assets on the model you fix it in one export.
How long does an implementation take, and do I need IT?
You usually go live within a month, 27 days on average, with onboarding included and a first channel fed automatically. PimLayer is configured, not programmed; IT mainly comes in for the ERP link.
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Whitepaper electrical sector
33 pages with the field model, ETIM and EPREL, the CE directives and the step-by-step plan. Free as a PDF, in Dutch.
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