Vent-Axia’s Richard Paine Joins EDA Data Services Board

Leading British ventilation manufacturer Vent-Axia announces that Richard Paine, its Product and Marketing Director, is now on the Electrical Distributors’ Association (EDA) Data Services Board. Here, he will be leading the strategic development of the EDATA data pool.

The Board comprises volunteer representatives from EDA wholesalers and manufacturers with an involvement in the EDATA data pool. EDATA, which was launched by the EDA in 2020, offers EDA wholesalers free access to information on hundreds of thousands of products from 60+ leading manufacturing brands that have signed up to date, with the data pool expanding rapidly.

Richard’s election to the Board comes as Michael Wright, Product Development Manager at Aico Ltd, steps down after serving his term.

Richard will take his place on the Board alongside:

  – Edgar Aponte, CEO at Rexel – Chair
  – Richard Baxter, Systems & Procedures Director, Edmundson Electrical Ltd
  – Ian Hunter, Head of Sales and Marketing, Electrium Sales Ltd (A Siemens Company)
  – Richard Moyes, Marketing, Intelligence & Development Manager, Prysmian Cables & Systems Ltd
  – Margaret Fitzsimons, CEO at the EDA
  – Richard Appleton, Head of Digitalisation, EDA

Speaking of his appointment, Richard says: “As a business, Vent-Axia has put considerable effort into harnessing the value of our product data and the extensive benefits this has, delivering Gold standard data has opened new conversations with our customers and is leading to new commercial opportunities.

“Like many we are on a journey and still have plenty of work to do, but I want to share our experience and collectively raise the standard in relation to digital transformation for the good of this sector. 

“I am convinced of the huge potential that digitised product information offers the UK’s electrotechnical supply chain. As a Vice Chair of BEAMA’s Digital Transformation Strategy Forum, I can also help build knowledge and consensus along the supply chain.

“Everyone wants to run more efficient businesses, powered by consistent, coherent and dependable information about the products that are traded, but also because wholesalers and their customers and end users benefit from quick and easy access to up-to-the minute information and images which everyone needs during the sales process.”

Easy as possible

Vent-Axia is dedicated to making it as easy as possible for its customers to find the product information they need. This is possible thanks to a continued digital transformation that includes the company’s Knowledge Hub app and a website upgrade with improved search functionality and downloadable BIM models.

Vent-Axia was also delighted to be a Founder Member of EDATA and is now an EDATA sponsor. Vent-Axia’s data has also cleared EDATA quality benchmarks to achieve Gold Standard.

As a data pool, EDATA offers electrotechnical manufacturers the opportunity to share their product data with multiple wholesalers.

EDATA currently holds information in three categories

 – Manufacturer Master Data, the core data needed to identify a product
 – Digital Assets such as images and data sheets
 – Technical Attributes including dimensions, suitability and performance characteristics.

The Technical Attributes held in EDATA are structured in accordance with ETIM, the international data model for the standardisation and classification of technical product data enabling wholesalers to enhance their web sites with powerful product searches and filters. 

For further information on all products and services offered by Vent-Axia, telephone 0844 856 0590 or visit www.vent-axia.com.