Build a product model
For a unified view of your product world
We help you build a digital product model that unifies your product information – the key to efficient processes, seamless data integration, and the creation of your digital twin. With our product model service, we help you bring structure and consistency to your product world.
A product model is a structured digital representation of a company's products, including product families, variants, components, properties, and functions. It establishes a shared understanding of all aspects of the product world and ensures future-proof digitalization.
Today, companies have valuable product information scattered across departments and systems, such as ERP, PIM, PLM, and the product configurator on their websites. Each department contributes its own valid perspective, whether from a sales, marketing, or technical viewpoint.
While this diversity offers opportunities, it also poses a key challenge. Without a shared, overarching understanding of the product structure, digital information flows remain inconsistent, automation potential goes untapped, and building a digital twin becomes difficult.
We model your products
We transform your product world into a unified digital product model. We analyze existing data sources and systems (e.g., PIM, ERP, and PLM), extract implicit models from technical and other documentation, and develop a consistent, machine-readable product model based on OWL (Web Ontology Language) and SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System).
We follow established standards, such as the Industrial Data Ontology (IDO, ISO/CD 23726-3) and the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO, ISO/IEC 21838-2:2021).
The product model is created collaboratively with your company’s experts and with the support of AI using natural language processing (NLP).
To ensure the product model is maintained in the long term, we develop a custom governance concept. This is how we work
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Product models for the digital twin
Creating product models. This is how we work
- Data analysis and expert interviews. We examine your existing systems and speak with your experts to identify relevant product structures.
- AI-based ontology creation. We use natural language processing (NLP) methods for extractive ontology generation or ontology learning from technical documentation and data sheets.
- Modeling. Based on the gathered information, we model your product world as a formalized, machine-readable ontology.
- Governance concept. To maintain an up-to-date product model over time, we develop a governance strategy incorporating roles, processes, and rules for change management.
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FAQs – Frequently asked questions about product modeling
FAQs – Frequently asked questions about product modeling