A Practical Guide to the Digital Product Passport

PLM Helps Companies Meet DPP Regulations, Design for Sustainability, and Strategically Transition to a Circular Economy

As the EU and its constituents continue to shape and refine the digital product passport, PLM will help set the precedent for establishing a solution that enhances product transparency, builds consumer confidence, and increases sustainability and circularity in product lifecycles. Passport technology will benefit not only European countries but the entire marketplace. Jörgen stated, “I think the most important thing about DPP is, it’s not only about regulation and the environment, it’s also about business opportunities. That’s looking at the positive side of it.”

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Arena PLM transforms ideas into products

As industries discover how to use PLM to aggregate DPP information and transition towards a circular economy, Arena is ready to help you drive innovation. With cloud-native connections and integrations, Arena programmatically gets DPP-related information from other systems—like CAD, ERP, MES—fast and accurate. Arena PLM links new product development, quality activities, and change processes to the complete product record and manages all your revision-controlled information including the information you make publicly available to support transparency.

With Arena, your entire team and supply chain partners can collaborate on everything product, from design to sustaining initiatives.

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