Simone Brinkmann-Tewes

Digital Product Passport: Making Product Data Interoperable with ECLASS and AAS

Many industrial companies need to provide product data for procurement, engineering, and service across multiple systems (ERP/PLM/PIM) — and in the future additionally in the context of the EU Digital Product Passport (DPP). The podcast demonstrates how missing semantics and inconsistent terms (e.g. “height” vs. “depth” depending on the CAD/CAE context) lead to interpretation effort, errors, and manual rework. The approach involves standardized data containers and clear feature definitions: the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) structures the exchange, while ECLASS provides the semantics for classification and features. WAGO, together with Neoception, uses a mapping of source system data to ECLASS (Advanced) to provide information consistently and, in the future, deliver it to various targets (including CAD portals, the website, and the DPP). For IT/OT decision-makers, this creates a scalable way to reduce integration costs, maintain data sovereignty, and meet regulatory requirements using reusable data building blocks.