Main colour fitting - EF016081

Hi all, Hi Marc, We're having difficulties to map materials against EF016081 (see value domain for EC003024 below). Any guidance and inputs are highly appreciated! Thanks! Example 1 Material: Unalloyed steel Main colour fitting: a) others, or b) stainless steel? Example 2 Surface galvanised Main colour Fitting: a) stainless steel, b) aluminium, c) other Example 3 Surface chromium-plated Main colour fitting: a) stainless steel, b) aluminium, c) other Example 4 Surface nickel-plated Main colour Fitting: a) stainless steel, b) aluminium, c) other Example 5 Material: CuNiFe Main colour Fitting: a) brass, b) bronze, c)other Example 6 Material: Copper Main colour Fitting: a) brass, b) bronze, c) other 1 EV000072 Aluminium 2 EV000206 Black 3 EV000149 Brass 4 EV000082 Bronze 5 EV000083 Brown 6 EV000235 Green 7 EV000270 Grey 8 EV000236 Orange 9 EV000166 Stainless steel 10 EV000202 White 11 EV000234 Yellow 12 EV000154 Other

Hi Nico, as the ETIM guidelines chapter 7.5.8. Colours in ETIM dictate: "Only “basic colours” are allowed in ETIM. Also, wood colours (like “Oak”) and material colours (like “Copper”) are permitted to be used in ETIM." See list of allowed metal basic colours attached.  So it seems that the list requested (by Aquatherm in Germany) is not complete and should be extended with at least several values. If the proper value is not listed, then I always advice to use "Other", never an incorrect value just to have something! If needed, please hand in a request to a local ETIM office (or take the step to join us a Global Industry Member 😊) One more comment: this main colour of course is most relevant for actual coloured fittings, to me it has no added value to say that a copper fitting is copper coloured. So maybe the best option would be to just leave the feature blank/empty as 'not applicable'. Customers looking for a copper fitting will look for material copper, not for copper coloured.