The Digital Product Passport requires access to all relevant data as well as the "semantic interconnection" of this data within a company. Furthermore, connectivity with external data from suppliers and partners is also necessary. This interoperability—which also supports the exchange of Digital Twins—can be achieved through the use of the open standard of the Asset Administration Shell (IEC 63278-1). In addition, full interoperability requires seamless integration with existing business processes and models within the company, such as in Product Engineering / Model-Based Systems Engineering, as well as the orchestration of relationships at the data, model, and process levels. Model-based methods and descriptions (BPMN 2.0, SysML v2, AutoML, LLM, Predictive Maintenance) are already applied in many subareas of companies. The complete networking of these complex contexts and aspects can be realized using a semantic enterprise model based on World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) web standards, thereby contributing to further value creation within the company.
Note: I held this presentation in November 2025 at the tekom annual conference (Arena) in Stuttgart.