DIGITAL PRODUCT PASSPORT FOR ELECTRONICS
The Digital Product Passport for electronics. One record for the whole life.
Specifications, energy efficiency, materials, battery data, and hardware and software versions sit in different files and formats, held by different teams. The Digital Product Passport brings them into one standardised record, available across the whole product life to manufacturers, retail, service partners, and customers.
Scattered across files. Missing when it counts.
A single electronic product carries specifications, test certificates, firmware histories, repair instructions, and material data. Each sits in its own file or system, often with a different team. When a service partner, an auditor, or a customer needs one of them, someone goes looking.
The requirements are growing at the same time. Right to Repair, ESG reporting, and the coming Digital Product Passport rules all ask for this data in a structured form. Gathering it per request does not scale.
Data domains in one record
Specifications, repair, software, compliance, ESG, and circular economy.Audiences, one source
Manufacturing, retail, service, and customers work from the same record.Per product, per lifetime
One record from production to second life.WHAT THE PASSPORT HOLDS
One record, every job on the product
The passport captures the data once, quality assured. From there it serves the teams and the rules that need it. Four examples.Specifications and technical data
Performance data, energy efficiency, material composition, battery capacity, and hardware and software versions, held centrally in a standardised form. One reliable basis for manufacturers, retail, service, and customers.
Repair, service, and software transparency
Digital repair instructions, spare part catalogues, and tool lists, plus firmware states, update history, and security patches, documented in an audit proof way. This supports Right to Repair and cybersecurity requirements, and it keeps products serviceable for longer.
Sustainability, ESG, and compliance
Material origin, carbon footprint, energy use, and recyclability, alongside certificates, test reports, CE declarations of conformity, and EMC records. The same record feeds ESG reporting and simplifies audits.
Circular economy and new business models
Take-back, disassembly, reuse, and recycling data in structured form. It supports refurbishment, trade-in, leasing, and second life, and raises the long term value of the product.
WHY IT PAYS OFF
Three things the passport makes easier
One passport, used in different ways. Each benefit below comes from the same record.
Transparency across the whole life
Every stakeholder reads the same product data, from the factory to the repair shop to the recycler. No one reconciles versions by hand.
Ready for the next regulation
Right to Repair, ESG reporting, software transparency, and the coming passport rules all ask for structured product data. When it is already structured and versioned, meeting a new rule is mapping, not gathering.
More value from every product
Repairable, updatable, and traceable products last longer and support second-life models. The passport turns product data into a basis for refurbishment, trade-in, and leasing.
Technology and Interoperability
Built on open standards
The Digital Product Passport for electronics is an application on the CORENATE platform, built on the Asset Administration Shell, the international Industry 4.0 standard for the digital twin. Your electronics data is described with clear semantics and moves between an ERP, a PLM, and a service or recycling system, across company boundaries. That is what lets a supplier, an auditor, or a recycler use the same record without translation.
What You Get Out of It
Beyond the obligation
Meeting the requirement is the starting point. The same structured record makes daily work on electronics leaner and opens data-driven services on top.
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Trace components and materials end to end
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Pass audits and compliance checks faster
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Earn partner trust with verifiable device data
Circular Economy
From proof to keeping value
The circular economy does not start with recycling. It starts with keeping devices in use. Clear data on components, spare parts, and repair supports a longer service life.
When a device reaches its end, material and disassembly data guide the recovery of copper, gold, and rare earth elements. That is where lower material costs and better supply security begin.
Frequently asked questions about the Digital Product Passport for electronics
What is the Digital Product Passport for electronics?
A standardised digital record for an electronic product. It holds specifications, repair and service data, software and firmware history, compliance documents, and ESG data, available across the product life.
What data does it hold?
Does it support Right to Repair?
How does it help with ESG reporting?
What about software and firmware transparency?
Do we have to replace our PLM or ERP?
What is it built on?
The Asset Administration Shell, the international Industry 4.0 standard for the digital twin. That makes electronics data exchangeable between systems and across company boundaries.
How do we get started?
Get in touch and tell us which products you want to cover and what data you hold today. We take it from there.
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See the Digital Product Passport for Electronics in action
Every requirement asks for the same product data, and every service case asks for it again. Tell us which products you want to cover.-
Built on open Industry 4.0 standards
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Connects the systems you already run
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One record for specifications, repair, compliance, and ESG