The digital product passport is coming!
The Digital Product Passport (DPP) will become mandatory for all companies across Europe in the next few years. But how do you go about it? The SKZ Plastics Center supports companies in the plastics industry with a wide range of digitalization issues, such as setting up a digital infrastructure, data analysis or selecting the right technology.
The digital product passport, application in everyday life.(Photo: SKZ)
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The Green Deal will place specific requirements on products in the coming years. These include durability, parts interchangeability, repairability, reusability, resource efficiency, and carbon footprint. The digital product passport will be the central element for exchanging this data throughout the lifecycle. When this becomes mandatory, companies in the plastics industry will need to have the necessary infrastructure in place to provide the required data.
High socio-political interest in plastics products
There are clear impulses from many sides for the transition to a circular economy in the EU. Digital Product Passports (DPPs) are a particularly important part of this. Batteries for electromobility will be the first to be included from 2028, with many products to follow. For plastic products, whose recycling is currently of particular socio-political interest, the issue is relevant in a wide range of applications.
Many companies not ready for the change
The digital product passport will place specific demands on the provision of data by all companies in the value chain. In SKZ's experience, many companies in the plastics industry are not yet ready. As in many parts of the economy, data collection is based on legacy systems that often consist of numerous islands or silos.
To efficiently meet the expected challenges of the Digital Product Passport, a data management and infrastructure is required that enables information to be transferred directly from the production process to the DPP without media disruption. SKZ is a provider of proven solutions for the systematic organization of process data and its use for internal and external processes. "During development, we learned about the many different approaches and developed best practices for data organization. We use this knowledge to support companies in the plastics industry on their way to DPP-compliant data," explains Christoph Kugler, Head of Digitization at SKZ.
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