Product data for electronics and electrical equipment
One record per device model for the information that customers, repairers and regulators increasingly ask for.
Data
The data that matters
- Model and serial identification
- Components and bill of materials
- Substances of concern and their location
- Spare parts and their availability
- Repair and disassembly information
- Software and firmware support period
- Energy data
Challenge
The challenge: the data exists, in the wrong places
An electronic product combines hundreds of components from many suppliers. Material declarations arrive as PDF files, repair information sits in service departments, and substance data is kept for other compliance duties in yet another system.
Even without a passport date, the questions are already being asked: by business customers in tenders, by repairers and by retailers. Answering them from a single record is cheaper than answering each one separately.
Process
Use case: a small-appliance range
A manufacturer of kitchen appliances structures the data for twelve models.
Define the fields
Together we decide which information is recorded per model and who may see it.
Enter service data
Spare-part and repair information from the service department is entered once per model.
Query suppliers
The contract manufacturer receives requests for material and substance fields.
Publish selectively
A public page per model shows what is released today; more fields can follow.
Functions
How the platform supports electronics
- An electronics field set, configured with you
- Fields for components, repair, spare parts and substances are set up for your product category.
- Requests to component suppliers
- Contract manufacturers and component suppliers answer field by field instead of sending documents.
- Information for repairers
- Fields can be reserved for parties with a legitimate interest, separate from what the public sees.
Benefits
What you gain
- One source for tender, retailer and service questions
- Supplier answers in fields instead of attachments
- A head start when a passport act for your category arrives
Legal status
Legal basis
- Legal basis
- Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 as the framework
- Status
- No act requiring a product passport for electronics has been adopted. Energy-related products continue to be regulated product by product. Timing for passports is open.
- Platform
- Configured per project
Because no act has been adopted, any field set for electronics is a working assumption. We say so in the project and keep the fields changeable.
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Model, batch and item level
Three audiences per field
Versioned publication
Hosted in Germany