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Digital Product Data Excellence for Lighting Manufacturers

One governed source of truth for product, photometric, BIM, compliance, and channel data. Model a fixture once and publish it correctly to every channel, specifier tool, and rebate program the same day.

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Biggest Challenges in Lighting? Pimcore Has the Answers.

Specifiers expect live digital data rather than static PDFs, and compliance baselines continue to evolve. Pimcore replaces manual work with a governed catalog built for the way lighting actually sells.

Configuration Complexity at Scale

A single fixture family can yield hundreds or thousands of valid SKUs across CCT, lumen package, beam angle, finish, driver, housing, and sensors, far more than spreadsheets or a flattened ERP can represent.

No Single Source of Truth

ERP, spec-sheet database, website, rep portal, and BIM library each contain a different version of a fixture, so a mismatched aperture or lumen value can result in the wrong product being shipped and trigger a return.

Photometric & BIM Drift

IES files and Revit families linked by file name fall out of sync with the live product, so an architect specs a stale family and the fixture is silently cut from the job.

Hand-Built Spec Sheets & Submittals

Cut sheets, photometric plots, and beam tables, maintained file by file in InDesign and Illustrator, cannot keep pace and quietly disagree with the tested data.

Moving Compliance Baselines

DLC, QPL, and ENERGY STAR listings expire and must be re-listed by hard deadlines. A single missed update drops products from rebate-eligible lists.

Channel & Connected-Data Sprawl

Every destination, from IDW and GS1/GDSN to BIM libraries, rep portals, and marketplaces, wants a different cut of data. At the same time, connected fixtures add protocol, firmware, and security attributes a traditional catalog never carried.

Built for how lighting actually sells

Key capabilities for lighting manufacturers

Configurable Fixture Modeling at Variant Scale

Model a fixture family once with rule-based valid-option logic across CCT, lumen, beam, finish, driver, and sensor. Hundreds of valid SKUs are resolved from a single canonical record, driving error-free ordering.

Photometric & BIM Asset Management

IES files, Revit families, AutoCAD blocks, EPDs, and test reports tie directly to the product record, versioned and flagged when it changes. Syndicate to ARCAT, BIMobject, and BIMsmith.

Spec Sheets Generated from the IES File

Pimcore parses the IES LM-63 file to generate the polar candela plot, beam tables, and cut sheet. The spec sheet, the plot, and the tested file can never disagree because they share a single record.

Compliance & Certification Workflow

DLC IDs, QPL categories, certification dates, and ENERGY STAR ratings live as structured data. Workflow flags expiring listings and produces catalog-wide gap reports as soon as requirements change.

Multi-Channel Syndication from One Source

Publish one master record to IDEA's IDW, GS1/GDSN data pools, BIM libraries, rep portals, print, and your headless storefront, each with channel-specific transformation rules.

Connected & Smart Lighting Data

Model protocol support across Matter, Zigbee, Bluetooth, DALI, and 0-10V, plus sensor specs, firmware channels, and security data as first-class attributes, built for connected lighting rather than bolted on.

Outcomes lighting manufacturers see with Pimcore

50%

faster launch

Publish a new fixture family to electrical wholesale, retail data pools, BIM libraries, rep portals, and your commerce site at once.

75%

less catalog time

Catalog and spec-sheet production, generated from the product record. One manufacturer cut it from 4 months to 1.

Days

not weeks

Compliance re-listing, surfacing every affected SKU the moment DLC, QPL, or ENERGY STAR requirements change.

Zero

silent spec losses

Revit families, IES files, and BIM content stay in lockstep with the live record, so fixtures are not cut silently.

Several

FTEs freed

Recovered from spreadsheet maintenance and file wrangling, redeployable to higher-value product work.

Customer spotlight: LEDVANCE

LEDVANCE is one of the world's leading suppliers of general lighting, with a portfolio spanning LED luminaires and advanced LED lamps for both professional specifiers and end consumers. Its product data had grown across a best-of-breed stack of disconnected commercial systems, with complex product structures, numerous third-party interfaces, and demanding import and export rules. Working with Pimcore partner asioso, LEDVANCE consolidated PIM, DAM, and website content management onto Pimcore as a single-source publishing platform, with bidirectional SAP integration that automatically creates products from the ERP. The result is a simplified architecture with far fewer interfaces, lower licensing costs, and shorter time-to-market for new products across every channel.

“We broke new ground with a very complex project, and the new territory quickly became a new home.”

Florian Reiter

Head of Data Management, LEDVANCE

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Ledlenser GmbH & Co. KG

Manufacturing
- 6 000 MediaAssets
- 1 300 DataObject
- 3 MonthsTOT
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Etap Lighting

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- 42 600 ProductAttributes2
- 150 000 DataObject
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Frequently asked questions

Can Pimcore generate spec sheets and photometric plots from our IES files?

Yes. Pimcore treats the IES LM-63 file as structured data, parsing it to generate the polar candela plot, beam tables, and cut sheet, so the published spec sheet and the tested file can never disagree.

How does Pimcore handle a fixture family with hundreds of configurations?

You model the family once with rule-based valid-option logic across CCT, lumen, beam, finish, and driver. Hundreds of valid SKUs are resolved from a single canonical record, driving error-free ordering.

Can Pimcore keep our Revit families and BIM content in sync with the live product?

Yes. IES files and Revit families tie to the record and are flagged when it changes. Publishing rules can require a current family before an update goes live, and content syndicates to ARCAT, BIMobject, and BIMsmith.

Does Pimcore manage DLC, QPL, and ENERGY STAR compliance?

Compliance data lives as structured fields on the record. Pimcore flags expiring listings and produces catalog-wide gap reports, so re-listing against a hard deadline is a query, not a spreadsheet scramble.

Is Pimcore SaaS or self-managed?

Pimcore is not classic multi-tenant SaaS. Run it in your own cloud or on-premises, or choose the Pimcore enterprise PaaS for a managed option without having to re-platform later.

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