The Digital Product Passport

What industrial companies can expect

What initially appears to be just another compliance requirement is in fact a structural intervention in your organization. The DPP will determine how product information is recorded, structured, and made available transparently along the entire value chain in the future.

The key question is therefore not whether you take action, but how strategically you do so.

What is the Digital Product Passport?

The Digital Product Passport is a digital, standardized data collection that makes product-specific information available throughout the entire life cycle. It is part of the new European Ecodesign Regulation within the framework of the EU Green Deal.

Depending on the product group, information is required on, among other things:

• Material composition
• Origin of components
• CO₂ footprint
• Repairability
• Recyclability

This information must be structured, machine-readable, and accessible via defined interfaces for authorities, business partners, and, in the future, customers.

For industrial companies, this means that product data will be required by law to be made available externally in the future. Their information base will thus become an official verification tool.

A strategic management issue

The digital product passport is not purely an IT project. It affects product development, purchasing, sustainability, quality management, IT, and sales in equal measure.

Data that was previously maintained in different systems or departments must be consolidated consistently. Suppliers must be integrated, responsibilities defined, and data quality ensured.

This makes the DPP a touchstone for your data strategy:

• How organized is your product data landscape?
• Where are there media breaks?
• How reliable is your supplier data?
• Are there clear governance structures?

These questions are strategic—not technical.

Particularly affected: Industry and manufacturing

Companies with a wide range of products, complex parts lists, international supply chains, and long life cycles face particular challenges.

In practice, product data has often grown historically, is spread across different systems, and is not consistently structured. The Digital Product Passport exposes these weaknesses and forces consolidation.

Driver for data sovereignty and transparency

Used strategically, the DPP becomes a lever for modernization. Companies that centralize product information—for example, in a PIM system (Product Information Management, i.e., a central platform for managing all product data)—create:

• Data sovereignty
• Transparency along the value chain
• Consistency across all channels
• Scalability for future regulatory requirements

Transparency is increasingly becoming a competitive factor. Sustainability indicators are being incorporated into procurement decisions. Those who can provide valid data strengthen their market position.

Risks of waiting

The introduction will take place gradually, according to product groups. Those who only react when deadlines take effect will find themselves under time pressure.

The consequences are often:

• High project costs
• Provisional isolated solutions
• Additional manual effort
• Reputational risks

Data architectures do not emerge overnight. Early preparation reduces risks and creates structural stability.

From compliance project to strategic modernization

Our experience at asioso shows that successful companies use the digital product passport as an opportunity to review their entire digital architecture.

We provide technology-neutral support to industrial companies in analyzing existing system landscapes, identifying structural weaknesses, and developing scalable target architectures. The focus is not on individual measures, but on creating a robust digital foundation for sustainable business success.

The Digital Product Passport is coming – and it affects your entire value chain. It is a regulatory instrument, a driver of transparency, and a strategic management task all at once.

Those who act in a structured manner now will not only ensure compliance, but also strengthen their digital competitiveness in the long term.

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