“I am glad we managed to build consensus with so many of the leading Industry 4.0 consortia and institutes to create this better-together architecture”, said Erich Barnstedt, Senior Director & Architect Industrial Standards, Corporate Standards Group at Microsoft Corporation. “With this approach, companies can use their existing investment in OPC UA technology and use it to easily build Digital Product Passports for their industry, while making them available in their supply chain via standardized interfaces, data models, data formats and semantics. I believe this will give the DPP technology the necessary adoption boost it will need to meet the 2027 deadline set by the European Commission.”
“CESMII is delighted to see this extraordinary alignment of global semantic interoperability initiatives – based on industry standards! This harmonization is the result of a multi-year effort, and will pave the way for manufacturers to build more robust, more open and resilient architectures”, says John Dyck, CEO of CESMII – The Smart Manufacturing Institute. “While this will certainly impact Digital Product Passport use cases, it will also have enormous impact in enabling manufacturing operations to participate more effectively in a real time supply chain data exchange!”
