Insights & Perspectives
Guides, analysis and industry news on the Digital Product Passport and the ESPR regulation.
One stream, one direction: how data flows into the passport
ERP, MES, PLM and PIM feed the Digital Product Passport yet keep control. Data flows in one direction only, and all that comes back are receipts.
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Disclosure doesn't cost you the signature
Anyone shown protected fields usually has to trust the platform. We sign each field on its own, so those fields carry their own proof.
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From AAS Submodel to Published DPP: The Checklist
A Digital Nameplate plus Asset Administration Shell gets you far, but not all the way to a passport. The seven steps still missing.
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The AAS Is the Foundation of the Digital Product Passport
The Asset Administration Shell provides the structure, the Digital Product Passport the published output. Where exactly the gap between them sits.
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EN 18223 Is Verbose - Open Semantics Turns It Into a Formatting Exercise
EN 18223's expanded serialization turns three lines into twenty. The verbosity is not a flaw in the standard - it is the price of a closed dictionary.
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Shaping the global standard: our six comments on the UN Transparency Protocol
Six comments on the public review of the UN Transparency Protocol. Two drew a reply, and one changed our own verifier.
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Trust that outlives the product: signatures and certificates in the DPP
A DPP has to stay verifiable for ten years; a platform rarely lasts that long. So trust attaches to the record, not to the provider.
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One DPP, many standards: why the vocabulary decides interoperability
The DPP invents no new language; it brings several existing ones together. How GS1, OpenEPCIS and the sector vocabularies fit together.
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Why GS1 Digital Link is the right standard for DPPs
Proprietary QR codes or an international standard? A technical comparison and what GS1 Digital Link means for interoperability.
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ERP integration in 2 weeks: a playbook for your own API integration
From SAP to Odoo - this is how you connect Transpareo to your existing system via our REST API, in two weeks instead of a six-month project.
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