Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZMCIRPASS – Setting ground for the European Product Passports
In order to evaluate the sustainability of products, information is needed along the entire value chain and its actors. Often the information is lost between the individual users, so that important decisions regarding sustainability, circular economy, value retention for reuse, remanufacturing and recycling cannot be made.
A digital product passport (DPP) will help to collect this product-related data in a structured way, with agreed ownership and access rights, before being transmitted via a unique identifier and made accessible electronically via a data carrier.
The "CIRPASS" project aims to lay the foundations for the future implementation of digital product passports in the EU. Tasks include creating a forum to develop a common understanding of cross-sector DPPs and building stakeholder consensus on prototypes of the DPP in the sectors: Batteries, Textiles, and Electronics.
Goals:
1 - description
Present an unambiguous cross-sectoral definition and description of the DPP
2 - green-economy
Define a cross-sectoral product data model for the DPP with demonstrated usefulness for the Circular Economy
3 - feature-selection
Clarify the requirements related to product identification
4 - touch
Propose an open DPP data exchange protocol adapted to the needs of circular economy stakeholders and propose such a protocol based on up-to-date digital technologies
5 - dictionary
Build stakeholder consensus on key data for circularity and related open European and global vocabulary standards to be included in the DPP for the batteries, electronics, and textiles value chains
6 - roadmap
Develop use cases and roadmaps for piloting, deployment and circular business value generation of cross-sectoral DPPs
Together with 31 European partners, Fraunhofer IZM's Environmental and Reliability Engineering (ERE) department is contributing its know-how in the field of sustainability for electronic products to drive future concepts of circular economy in the European Union.
In this context, Fraunhofer IZM supports the latest and future developments of digital product passports with many years of expertise in various public and industrial projects.