Two months after launch, we have completed the biggest structural change to the EPFINDER catalogue since day one: every product in the Emirates Panel warehouse — over 72,000 SKUs — is now categorised, attributed, and searchable.

What “categorised” actually means here

Industrial-electrical catalogues are notoriously hard to navigate. A “contactor” can sit under power-distribution or motor-control. A “surge protection device” can be Type 1, Type 2, or Type 3, with very different applications. A “DIN-rail power supply” varies by output current, output voltage, input range, mounting type, and certification scheme. Without consistent attribute tagging, even an experienced engineer ends up scrolling through hundreds of similar-looking part numbers.

We rebuilt the EPFINDER taxonomy from the ground up:

• Hierarchical categories — Power Distribution → Circuit Protection → MCCB → 100A Frame, etc. Drill down as deep as the application demands.
• Brand archives — each manufacturer has a complete in-stock listing (ABB, Schneider Electric, Weidmuller, Siemens, Phoenix Contact, Eaton, Lovato, Theben, Hager, Al Fanar, and others).
• Attribute filters — current rating (A), voltage (V), poles, coil voltage, frame size, certification (IEC / UL / CSA / SASO), mounting style, and dozens more — applied consistently across every applicable product.
• Family pages — for major series (ABB AF contactors, Schneider Acti9, Weidmuller Klippon, Siemens SIRIUS), the entire family is grouped on a single page with side-by-side attribute comparison.

What this changes for procurement teams

The practical impact is fewer dead-ends. Type the rating you need (“25 A, 24 V coil, 3-pole, AC-3”) and EPFINDER returns the in-stock contactors that match, ranked by closest specification, across every brand we carry. The filters narrow further. The product page tells you stock-level and price. The whole flow goes from “I need a 25 A contactor” to “added to quote cart” in under 30 seconds.

What this enables next

A consistent attribute structure is the foundation for everything we are building afterwards. Conversational search needs structured attributes to translate “ABB 25 A contactor” into a real query. Image-based search needs attribute targets to match against. Intelligent BOM matching needs attributes to find equivalents when an exact part is out of stock. The catalogue rebuild was a necessary first step.

Browse the re-organised catalogue, or jump straight into a brand archive for the manufacturer you specify most.