Periodic Reporting for period 1 - DigiPass (Harmonization of Advanced Materials Ecosystems serving strategic Innovation Markets to pave the way to a Digital Materials & Product Passport)
Periodo di rendicontazione: 2024-04-01 al 2025-09-30
The overarching objective of DigiPass CSA is to pick up European materials and intermediate product developing communities at their respective digital maturity level and advice clear routes for providing for their input and profiting from digitalized circular business models based on save and sustainable materials and product manufacturing, while simultaneously enhancing their level of digital maturity. The overarching key result of DigiPass is to advice a sustainable platform which includes support for Digital Product Passports (DPP) and for collaborative innovation-by-design processes in a circular economy based on advanced materials. A business model for operating such a platform completes the overarching objective. The DigiPass project is set to bolster the digital maturity of European stakeholder from materials development communities, with a particular emphasis on small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This will be achieved through the harmonization and synergy of collected materials data sources, ensuring the interoperability of data exchange and standardization of advanced materials data at all maturity levels. DigiPass envisions a new digital data object, namely the Digital Material and Product Passport (DMPP), which consists essentially of two sub-objects: a data sub-object related to a Digital Product Passport (DPP) as enforced by upcoming legislation/regulation which is openly accessible, and a second sub-object, the Digital Material Passport (DMP) with finetuned access rights set by the producer, which may be used in co-innovation processes involving many stakeholders.
This way, the DMPP serves two requirements simultaneously: support of regulatory-confirmation and sustainability reports (via the DPP) and support of co-innovation processes (via DMP) in circular ecosystems. A further advantage is that that the DMP may be implemented at any digital maturity level and serves in DigiPass CSA as digitalization on-boarding vehicle for stakeholder currently at very low digital maturity level but interested in co-innovation processes. DigiPass’s aim leads to 6 Objectives crucial to realise the overarching project ambition:
Enhance communication and cooperation among advanced materials developing communities; Promoting the Exchange of Materials Data and Knowledge; Facilitate the creation and utilisation of DMPP; Demonstrate coordination and support achievements on four case studies; Establish collaborative digital skills training schemes; Ensure sustainability of DigiPass platform.
This way, the DMPP serves two requirements simultaneously: support of regulatory-confirmation and sustainability reports (via the DPP) and support of co-innovation processes (via DMP) in circular ecosystems. A further advantage is that that the DMP may be implemented at any digital maturity level and serves in DigiPass CSA as digitalization on-boarding vehicle for stakeholder currently at very low digital maturity level but interested in co-innovation processes. DigiPass’s aim leads to 6 Objectives crucial to realise the overarching project ambition:
Enhance communication and cooperation among advanced materials developing communities; Promoting the Exchange of Materials Data and Knowledge; Facilitate the creation and utilisation of DMPP; Demonstrate coordination and support achievements on four case studies; Establish collaborative digital skills training schemes; Ensure sustainability of DigiPass platform.
In the reporting period, the consortium delivered the inventory of materials data and information systems, including a gap analysis for four demonstration cases. Requirements for the design of Ideal DMPP, synthesising user needs into a conceptual framework have been collected from different stakefolders. Data requirements for DMPP, consolidating mandatory and optional attributes by Use Cases, have been considered and analysed. Life Cycle Inventories of advanced materials, assessing data quality, accessibility, and IPR were prepared. The consortium also focused on materials modelling and advanced characterisation approaches,physics-& AI-based methods, using the MODA and CHADA frameworks across four demo-cases. Recommendations for harmonised documentation procedures were formulated for materials characterisation and fabrication. Existing ontologies, including EMMO, OCES, etc., as well as common language for data documentation and exchange approaches were evaluated recommending vocabularies and SHACL forms for DPPs. DigiPass CSA demonstrated the following technical achievements in the development of a DMPP: data requirements for DMPP using FAIR principles, RESTful APIs, and SHACL validation. The investigation covered four Use Cases: Advanced Composite Materials, Nanomaterials Safety, Organic Photovoltaics (OPVs), and Prepainted Metals. Data sources and inventories were identified for each case, key data categories were defined, and a gap analysis was conducted. The results also incorporated feedback from stakeholder workshops and questionnaires, providing an integrated foundation for consistent data generation, improved knowledge management, and robust environmental assessment across the demonstration cases. An initial digital platform to implement a DPP for advanced materials has been created. The work required ensuring semantic and technical interoperability through ontologies, metadata, and catalogue schemas. The further development will be provided during the second part of the project.
DigiPass provides essential digital tools to accelerate advanced material research, development and deployment:
A first set of tools for creating and utilising DMPPs has been developed and tested in case studies, enabling their integration into industrial and research workflows;
An initial data management system has been implemented, supporting interoperability, flexibility, and secure sharing across stakeholders;
in harmonized methods for modeling and characterization, MODA and CHADA frameworks has been applied in practice to provide structured descriptions of materials models, enhancing comparability and reproducibility;
Ontologies and vocabularie ave been evaluated and partially implemented in a common data catalogue, supporting semantic interoperability and transparency.
Over the first 18 months, DigiPass has made substantial progress towards overcoming hurdles in using digital tools for improved data access and valorisation. The project has delivered tangible outputs that directly improve how materials data is accessed, shared, and exploited.
Prototypes of DMPPs have been developed and validated in case studies, demonstrating their value in providing structured and transparent access to data across product lifecycles. A flexible and secure data management system has been implemented to support FAIR principles. At the same time, standardised data formats, APIs, and ontologies have been extended to ensure interoperability and semantic consistency. These technical developments are complemented by training activities and stakeholder workshops, which address knowledge gaps and promote the adoption of new tools.
A first set of tools for creating and utilising DMPPs has been developed and tested in case studies, enabling their integration into industrial and research workflows;
An initial data management system has been implemented, supporting interoperability, flexibility, and secure sharing across stakeholders;
in harmonized methods for modeling and characterization, MODA and CHADA frameworks has been applied in practice to provide structured descriptions of materials models, enhancing comparability and reproducibility;
Ontologies and vocabularie ave been evaluated and partially implemented in a common data catalogue, supporting semantic interoperability and transparency.
Over the first 18 months, DigiPass has made substantial progress towards overcoming hurdles in using digital tools for improved data access and valorisation. The project has delivered tangible outputs that directly improve how materials data is accessed, shared, and exploited.
Prototypes of DMPPs have been developed and validated in case studies, demonstrating their value in providing structured and transparent access to data across product lifecycles. A flexible and secure data management system has been implemented to support FAIR principles. At the same time, standardised data formats, APIs, and ontologies have been extended to ensure interoperability and semantic consistency. These technical developments are complemented by training activities and stakeholder workshops, which address knowledge gaps and promote the adoption of new tools.