Digital Product Passport seminar

Understanding regulations. Managing data. Preparing for implementation

A seminar with Roland Schmeling and Ulrike Parson

The Digital Product PassportDigital Product Passport (DPP) will fundamentally change how product information is provided and exchanged. For companies, the question is therefore not only which regulatory requirements they will need to meet in the future. Equally important are questions such as: What data is required? Where is it currently stored? How do systems and processes need to work together? And who is responsible within the organization?

Roland Schmeling (Schmeling & Consultants) and Ulrike Parson (parson) provide an introduction to the fundamentals of the Digital Product Passport and show how companies can prepare for its implementation. The seminar covers regulatory and technical requirements as well as data, information quality, and organizational prerequisites.

Using practical examples and working together with the participants, they explore the challenges companies face in practice and identify useful first steps on the path toward implementing the DPP.

Seminar topics

• Fundamentals and regulatory framework: What is the Digital Product Passport, what is its purpose, and which regulatory requirements and standards are relevant to companies?
• DPP data and system: What information needs to be included in the DPP? What are the requirements for the technical infrastructure, and what roles do identifiers, access rights, interoperability, and data exchange play?
• Data within the organization: Where does the required information come from—for example, data on materials, recycled content, carbon emissions, conformity, or technical product characteristics? What data sources are available, and how can information from different systems and suppliers be brought together?
• Implementation challenges: How can companies deal with fragmented data, different formats, issues with data quality and granularity, legacy systems, or dependencies on suppliers?
• Opportunities and benefits: What opportunities does the DPP offer beyond regulatory compliance—for example, for service, the circular economy, customer communication, and new digital services?
• Practical examples and emerging solutions: Early implementations, for example for batteries and textiles, as well as existing DPP demonstrators, show how Digital Product Passports are already being implemented today. The seminar also examines different technical approaches and the criteria companies can use to select suitable solutions and service providers.
• Strategy and roadmap: Where should companies start today? How can they assess their current situation and level of digital maturity and use this as a basis for defining concrete next steps for data, IT infrastructure, processes, and responsibilities?
• Exchange and discussion: Participants apply the topics to their own organizations: What data and initiatives are already available? Which departments need to be involved? And where are the biggest challenges?