Achieving a Sustainable Economy with Digital Product Passports
This article has shown how synergies between digital product passports and supplier information of a modern Manufacturing as a Service ecosystem enable new applications and open up smart ways to integrate and complete information . The Smart Factory Web architecture has proved to be a flexible foundation for such an ecosystem and has emerged as a suitable environment for the seamless integration and extension of distributed digital product passports .
In our approach we linked information from DPPs , external sources for sustainability information as well as production and supply chain knowledge . This resulted in a number of challenges in semantic integration , the design of propagation rules for DPP information , entity linking , and the definition of currently unstandardized information fragments .
In the future , we will further deepen this approach in various pilot projects with different stakeholders from the domains MaaS , Supply Chain Management , Supply Chain Sustainability , as well as operators of digital infrastructures and risk management services to address these challenges . For this , the innovation projects Catena-X and its cross-sectoral successor Manufacturing-X [ 19 ] provide us with a valuable R & D framework .
At the same time , with the Sustainability AI , the prototype implementation of the Smart Factory Web and the various applications such as the Supply Chain Management Application and a MaaS marketplace , there is a suitable prototype technical infrastructure to test real scenarios and business models . Therefore , we will be able to present further evaluated concepts and best practices in the near future .
[ 2 ] [ Catena-X-2022-SUS ] Catena-X , 2022 Standard library , capability ‘ Sustainability ’ SUS-001- Product Carbon Footprint ( PCF ) Data Model SUS-002- Product Carbon Footprint ( PCF ) Aspect Model SUS-003- Product Carbon Footprint ( PCF ) Request API SUS-004- Product Carbon Footprint ( PCF ) Rulebook
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[ 3 ] [ Catena-X-2022-TRA ] Catena-X , 2022 Standard library , capability ‘ Traceability ’ TRA-001 SerialPartTypization TRA-002 Aspect Model : AssemblyPartRelationship TRA-003 Aspect Model : Batch TRA-004 Notification Process
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