Give every product a trustworthy digital identity Digital Product Passport Solution Powered by NovaDB
NovaDB consolidates information from PLM, ERP, sustainability platforms, supplier systems and other data sources into a consistent and structured content model. This creates a unified content hub that provides all relevant information required for creating a Digital Product Passport.
What Is a Digital Product Passport
A Digital Product Passport is a structured, machine-readable identifier that travels with an item across its entire lifecycle, from manufacturing and logistics to reuse, repair, and recycling. It consolidates traceable, verified, and regulated product data from PIM, PLM, ERP, and sustainability platforms, offering a single source of truth on materials, components, certifications, origin, and environmental metrics.
Depending on the product group, a digital product passport typically covers the following areas:
- Product identity, a unique, persistent digital identifier for the product
- Materials and raw materials, including material composition and origin
- Production and supply chain
- Environmental and sustainability aspects
- Usage and maintenance
- Repair and recycling
- Compliance and certification information
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Further Reading on the Digital Product Passport
The Challenge Digital Product Passport Solves
Full Transparency into Materials and Origins
Products become fully traceable, offering reliable insights into the origin, composition, and supply chain journey. The passport ensures auditable and verified data on each component from source to end of life.
Unified Product Data Foundation
By aggregating structured data from systems like ERP, PIM, PLM, and supplier platforms, the solution eliminates data silos and supports interoperable, scalable workflows that streamline data integration.
Clear Proof of Sustainability and Compliance
Centrally managed sustainability attributes, certifications, and regulatory information help ensure EU compliance, promote transparency, and simplify audits, all while advancing circularity goals.
Persistent Product Identity Across the Lifecycle
Every product receives a unique, persistent digital identity linked to materials, manufacturing, usage, service, and recycling, key to long-term traceability and circular business models.
Consistent Information Across All Touchpoints
APIs and digital identifiers ensure that customer-facing channels show the most up-to-date, verified, and accessible data, improving trust and reducing misinformation.
Better Support for Repair, Reuse and Recycling
Technicians and service teams can instantly access component-level data, repair instructions, and recycling guidelines, supporting circular economy principles through efficient reuse and repair.
Improved Partner Visibility in the Supply Chain
Suppliers and logistics partners benefit from seamless access to structured, compliance-ready information, increasing collaboration, traceability, and inventory visibility.
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Core Capabilities of NovaDB Digital Product Passport Solution
Complete visibility across all required data
NovaDB brings together information from ERP, PLM, sustainability systems and supplier platforms. This creates a reliable foundation from which all essential DPP content can be assembled.
Flexible and Scalable Data Model
Designed for complex product structures, evolving regulatory standards, and diverse material attributes with minimal rework.
Robust Data Orchestration Across Systems
Ensures reliable integration, validation, and synchronization of information across PIM, ERP and PLM.
API-First Distribution to All Touchpoints
Built for modern integrations, this solution supports machine-readable formats accessible through secure APIs, ensuring interoperability with devices, apps, and partner systems.
Versioning, Auditability, and Compliance Features
Supports data history tracking, regulatory alignment, and trustworthy, verified documentation for standards like ESPR and EU Green Deal.
Central management of sustainability and compliance relevant content
Certificates, material data, origin documentation, consumption values or repair related information can be managed and versioned in a structured way. This significantly reduces the effort needed to meet future DPP requirements.
Persistent and lifecycle based product identity
NovaDB supports the consistent management of product master data, component relationships and lifecycle relevant information. This creates the persistent identity required for a DPP to map a product across its full lifecycle.
Content delivery portal & self-service portals
NovaDB provides DPP and product-related information via APIs specifically for a content delivery portal and self-service portals—e.g., for customers, partners, or service applications. This means that repair instructions, documents, certificates, and sustainability information can be provided in an up-to-date, consistent, and versioned manner throughout the entire product life cycle.
Digital Product Passport Integrations and Ecosystem
A Digital Product Passport only delivers value when systems across the supply chain work in unison. Our solution seamlessly connects PIM, PLM, ERP, sustainability tools, and supplier platforms into a coordinated, transparent data flow. With API-based integrations, every stakeholder, internal teams, partners, logistics providers, and customer-facing platforms can access the exact information they need.
From Passport to Platform
A digital product passport bundles and structures the relevant product data, from material composition to carbon footprint. For this data to be accessible online to customers, authorities, or partners, it takes a platform that structures it, makes it searchable, and delivers it on the web with the appropriate access protection. That is exactly what the NovaDB Content Delivery Portal does, it is the solution through which your aggregated product passport data actually reaches the user.
A Digital Product Passport bundles verified information on material composition, origin, environmental impact, durability, and repairability, along with recycling and end of life guidance. The exact data fields are not fixed uniformly in the ESPR but are defined separately for each product group through delegated acts of the European Commission.
A fixed legal date exists so far for two product groups. Industrial batteries above 2 kWh as well as electric vehicle and light means of transport batteries will require a battery passport from 18 February 2027, based on the EU Battery Regulation. For toys, the Digital Product Passport becomes mandatory from 1 August 2030, based on the new EU Toy Safety Regulation (EU) 2025/2509, which has already been in force since 1 January 2026. For all other product groups, the ESPR Working Plan 2025 to 2030 only sets indicative years for the respective delegated acts, for example steel for 2026 or textiles, tyres and aluminium for 2027. The actual obligation takes effect no earlier than eighteen months after the relevant delegated act enters into force.
In principle, the ESPR can cover almost any physical product placed on the EU market, regardless of where it was manufactured. However, the passport only becomes binding for a specific product group once the European Commission has adopted a dedicated delegated act for it. Some sectors are additionally covered by their own separate regulations with their own timeline, such as the Construction Products Regulation for the construction sector or the new Toy Safety Regulation for toys.
The central legal basis is the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, ESPR, Regulation (EU) 2024/1781. It should be understood as a framework law that does not by itself create an obligation for a Digital Product Passport. In addition, product group specific regulations with their own timeline exist, such as the EU Battery Regulation for the battery passport, the Construction Products Regulation for the construction sector, or the new Toy Safety Regulation (EU) 2025/2509 for toys.
NovaDB consolidates product data from ERP, PLM, sustainability platforms, and supplier systems in a structured content hub. This allows the information required for a Digital Product Passport to be managed centrally, versioned, and distributed to different output channels via APIs, once a delegated act for the relevant product group takes effect.