Knowledge Management · Artificial Intelligence · Digital Product Passport
Consulting for Businesses and Organizations
Starting this year, KMAIC has been supporting circulardata, an independent initiative for the exchange and coordination of sustainable activities—particularly in the context of the Digital Product Passport. For details, visit https://circular-data.org/o/f2df6055-7f34-4766-addd-ca8a6c171f25
The Digital Product Passport requires access to all relevant data as well as the“semantic interconnection”of this data within a company. In addition, interconnection 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 Asset Administration Shell standard (IEC 63278-1). Furthermore, full interoperability requires seamless integration with existing business processes and models within the company—for example, in product engineering and model-based system 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 in use in many areas of the enterprise. The complete interconnection of these complex relationships and aspects can be achieved using a semantic enterprise model based on web standards (W3C), thereby contributing to further value creation within the company.
Note: I gave this presentation in November 2025 at the tekom Annual Conference (Arena) in Stuttgart.
The Semantic Web represents a stage in the evolution of the World Wide Web. It extends the Web to make published information and data machine-readable, exchangeable, and usable. The information is assigned unique meanings and supplemented with additional details so that both humans and machines can recognize the meaning, context, and other relationships within the information (the semantics).
The Semantic Web is based on knowledge modeling or knowledge representation (for a specific knowledge domain).
Tim Berners-Lee (founder of the World Wide Web) described his proposal in 2001 as follows:“The Semantic Web is an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work together.”