Digital Product Passport: practical instead of complex.

Last week I spoke with an entrepreneur. Co-owner of a company that only makes unique end products, with small margins.

He got stuck on a number of questions:

→ Does each unique product get its own ID?
→ How will that ID still be linked to the product in ten years’ time?
→ And how do I prevent this from becoming a cost item that gets out of hand?

Relatable questions – and they feel bigger than they are, because you’re trying to solve everything at once.

Often the solution is closer than expected.

In a two-hour session, we went through the problems step by step. The key turned out to be the existing bill of materials of the end product: from it, the Digital Product Passport can be generated automatically, and the unique ID easily builds from what is already known. No new layer, no extra administration – just a different view of an existing process.

After the holidays, we plan a follow-up meeting with his Management Team, a competitor and a few suppliers, to coordinate whether and how we will easily share the associated data via www.1Left1Right.com.

The lesson: Introducing a Digital Product Passport doesn’t have to be complicated.

Connect to the current way of working, and the approach automatically becomes practical.