As companies become increasingly aware of the need to have a platform to support the handling of their Digital Product Passports (DPP), it's great sensing their relief when they realise that our system for Digital Product Passports – isPassport – is fully integrated with our system for product authentication – isAuthentic.
No need to buy, install, populate and maintain two different systems! You just supplement the unique digital ID of a manufactured item with the relevant DPP data and off you go!
Their relief at this is as palpable as ever it was about how unintrusive isAuthentic is in your production environment, as we've written about earlier.
Behind Both DPP and Product Authentication: A Digital Data Supply Chain
As we create the digital fingerprint for each produced item, we store it in our secure cloud for later comparison in the field; the actual authentication. But not in any old stupid database, of course. Instead, we use an agile proprietary "digital data supply chain" which can hold all kinds of other product data. DPP data, of course, but also life events for items to create a digital record of provenance, installations, use and maintenance, perfect for documenting the life of high value luxury products, for example.
It can also carry instruction and maintenance manuals, certificates of health & safety and loads of other kinds of data we haven't even thought of yet. But you might. A perfect basis for business development:
Adding digital value to physical products.
Vision On Target
When we started presenting our innovations to potential customers some years back, we met interest in either product authentication or, more rarely, in DPP. As the start of DPP late 2027 gets closer, we see an increasing interest in DPP, also from the C-suite.
With companies who have come some way on their path of understanding the scope and dynamics of DPP, we find an increasing appreciation of us offering highly compatible solutions, allowing you to handle both on the same platform.
They start to see now, what we saw when we started our work
Next: Simplifying Product Data Management Across the Board
A fundamental principle in our way of working with product data is to avoid monoliths, duplication and unnecessary maintenance. We strive to leave data where it is, as much as possible. Instead of copying data from one monolith to another, we point to the source and integrate verification of that source. That way, we leave the task and the responsibility of maintaining the data at the source.
We're convinced that this will shift the paradigm for product information management, leading to an era of increased agility and improved quality through removal of risks from transferring and copying data in cumbersome maintenance processes.
Actually, we've seen it happen already. In early deployments of DPP platforms, retailers have been able to reduce the number of databases, reducing both maintenance workload and the risks of errors from maintenance mishaps!
How much would that simplify your work?
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