Digital Product Passport trials to support the concept's introduction in industry

The European Union is introducing the concept of the Digital Product Passport (DPP) to the manufacturing industry. The first domain areas are batteries and textiles, but regulation will soon reach all manufacturing domains. In this paper, we briefly discuss the requirements of the DPP and its contributions to the circular economy and sustainable decision making through the product lifecycle and manufacturing value chain. Some preliminary architectural viewpoints are explained, aligned with the intention to exploit the International Data Spaces (IDS) reference architecture for secure data sharing among actors. A practical way to manage the complex innovation process of how to co-create and implement the DPP via several iterative minimum viable DPP deployments is also outlined. It contains the proof-of-concept process with the build-measure-learn circles and the sprint model.