Implementing a Digital Product Passport starts with understanding your product data, where it lives, how it's structured, and who needs access to it.
Here's a practical roadmap for manufacturers:
- Map your data sources. Identify where sustainability, material, and production data sit (spreadsheets, QA records, supplier certificates).
- Standardise data formats. The EU DPP requires structured, machine-readable information.
- Assign unique identifiers. A persistent identifier on a data carrier links each product or batch to its record. Traced gives each one a 16-character trace ID, shown as a QR code.
- Create the digital record. Hold a record against each identifier, with the lifecycle data for that product or batch.
- Update the record. Upload a new version when production, certification or material data changes. Traced keeps earlier versions.
With TraceID.io, these steps sit in one place. Traced holds a product's certificates, manuals and batch records together. Traced does not yet check a passport's fields against the regulation, because the rules for iron, steel and aluminium are still being finalised.
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