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3The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is emerging as a key solution in enhancing product transparency, sustainability, and traceability. A DPP serves as a digital record containing vital information about a product's lifecycle. As regulations tighten on sustainability and product circularity, the digital product passport is gaining prominence in sectors like electronics, fashion, and automotive. However, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face significant challenges in implementing DPPs. These challenges stem from various factors, including the complexity of integrating digital systems with existing workflows, unawareness on how to use DPP to develop sustainable products, what are the data and information that must be recorded in the DPP, limited resources, a lack of expertise, and more. Moreover, SMEs often operate in industries with varying regulatory requirements, making the task of ensuring compliance even more complicated. The necessity of collaboration among different stakeholders adds further complexity. This research project seeks to explore these challenges by interviewing a limited number of SMEs. The objective is to understand the awareness and specific barriers SMEs encounter and provide finding that students, researchers, and companies can address in future research projects.
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Abstract Digital Product Passports (DPPs) can play an essential role in accelerating the circular economy. However, the process of DPP implementation and adoption in the Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) sector remains slow and unclear, highlighting a critical gap in the existing research. This study aims to understand how transition dynamics impact DPP adoption in the EEE sector. Based on a multi-level perspective on socio-technical transitions, DPPs are positioned as a technological niche innovation that influences actors, transition dynamics, and the corresponding adoption of DPPs. Through a literature review, expert interviews, and case studies, two socio-technical transition pathways are proposed to explain the evolution of the EEE sector and their implications for DPP adoption. The designed pathways illustrate how multiple factors at the landscape, socio-technical regime, and niche innovation levels interact and shape the EEE sector’s response to macro pressures and the mandatory implementation of DPPs by the European Union. A critical insight here is that DPPs should not be viewed solely as a technological concept. Rather, a broad set of interconnected factors plays a decisive role in the successful adoption of DPPs by the EEE sector.
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Abstract. The rapid increase in e-waste poses significant environmental challenges. Most disposed Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) products, including computers, mobile phones, and household appliances, are currently recycled for materials rather than reused, due to perceived low residual value. This approach conflicts with circular economy goals, which emphasize extending products’ lifetime. Many disposed EEE items are “end-of-use” rather than “end-of-life,” indicating potential for reuse after refurbishment or repair. However, effective lifetime extension is hampered by inadequate data sharing and complex data systems within the EEE sector. This research addresses the data sharing problem, which is essential for circular strategies and improving EEE lifetime extension. Digital transformation, particularly through the Digital Product Passport (DPP), can facilitate comprehensive product life cycle management, supporting sustainable practices. We propose an EEE ecosystem modelling approach to compare traditional and circular business models through e3-value models, focusing on washing machines. We investigated the applicability of DPPs to aid decision-making for lifetime extension at collection points.
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The transition to a circular economy presents significant challenges for high-tech manufacturing, particularly among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which often face resource constraints. Digital Product Passports (DPPs) have emerged as pivotal tools for enhancing transparency, traceability, and lifecycle management in support of circularity. This study, conducted in collaboration with TechValley—a consortium of Dutch high-tech SME suppliers and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs)—explores the barriers and opportunities associated with implementing DPPs. The research employs a multi-phased methodology comprising literature reviews, stakeholder interviews, and collaborative workshops with industry professionals. Participants identified key opportunities for circular design and business strategies, including cost reduction through optimized material use, improved spare parts management, and modular design standardization. Business benefits such as enhanced customer relations, increased revenues from refurbished products, and Product-as-a-Service models were also highlighted. However, several barriers hinder DPP adoption, including high implementation costs, regulatory complexities, and data integration challenges across supply chains. To address these issues, a co-created roadmap was developed, comprising five stages: technology assessment, business model analysis, collaborative workshops, pilot testing, and an innovation agenda for scaling DPP adoption. By leveraging emerging technologies such as AI and digital twinning, the roadmap prioritizes scalability and cost-effectiveness for SMEs. The study contributes to the discourse on digital longevity and circularity by providing actionable strategies for integrating DPPs into SME operations. Future work will involve implementing the roadmap in case studies to evaluate its efficacy in promoting circular value creation and sustainability in high-tech manufacturing.
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In deze studie is onderzocht hoe kleine en middelgrote ondernemingen (MKB) in de hightech maakindustrie Digital Product Passports (DPP’s) kunnen toepassen om hun business te versterken met circulaire economie-praktijken.
Op basis van een literatuuronderzoek, interviews en workshops met zes Nederlandse MKB’s verkent dit onderzoek
• Hoe MKB’s de uitdagingen en kansen van DPP’s ervaren
• Hoe adoptie kan evolueren van naleving naar circulaire businessmodellen
• De rol van digitale technologieën.
Hoewel DPP's centraal staan in het actieplan voor de circulaire economie van de EU, blijven de praktische trajecten voor mkb's onduidelijk. Mkb's staan voor uitdagingen: onduidelijke regels, onzekerheid en gebrek aan instructies met betrekking tot de praktische vereisten belemmeren het maken van investeringen. Het aanpakken van deze uitdagingen is cruciaal om ervoor te zorgen dat mkb's worden betrokken bij de circulaire transitie.
Workshops lieten mkb’s zien hoe DPP’s kunnen worden ingezet om de operationele efficiëntie te vergroten en tegelijkertijd mogelijkheden voor circulaire innovatie te bieden. Eenvoudige technologieën zoals QR-codes en microsensoren bieden hierbij kansrijke oplossingen voor onder andere predictive maintenance, refurbishment, remanufacturing, modulaire upgrades en leasevormen.
De studie presenteert een roadmap voor technologie- en businessmodelinnovatie, waarmee de bedrijven op korte termijn stappen kunnen
zetten, óók wanneer de wettelijke kaders nog niet volledig ontwikkeld zijn.
Zo laat deze studie zien dat DPP’s niet alleen nuttig zijn voor compliance, maar juist kunnen worden ingezet als hulpmiddelen voor circulaire waardecreatie en competitief voordeel
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Expectations are high for digital technologies to address sustainability related challenges. While research into such applications and the twin transformation is growing rapidly, insights in the actual daily practices of digital sustainability within organizations is lacking. This is problematic as the contributions of digital tools to sustainability goals gain shape in organizational practices. To bridge this gap, we develop a theoretical perspective on digital sustainability practices based on practice theory, with an emphasis on the concept of sociomateriality. We argue that connecting meanings related to sustainability with digital technologies is essential to establish beneficial practices. Next, we contend that the meaning of sustainability is contextspecific, which calls for a local meaning making process. Based on our theoretical exploration we develop an empirical research agenda.
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To be successful in a circular economy, it is important to keep the cost of operationalizing remanufacturing processes low in order to retain as much value of the product as possible. Optimizing operations for disassembly, as a key process step, is therefore an important prerequisite for economically viable circular manufacturing. The generation of fit-to-resource disassembly instructions is labor-intensive and challenging because (digital) product information is often lacking at End-of-Life. With upcoming EU regulations for Eco-design for Sustainable Products in mind, including the future use of Digital Product Passports, it is time to think about standardized methods to capture disassembly information for products. First requirements from small and medium-sized remanufacturing companies have been collected and compared with available frameworks for modeling product topology, parameters, and (dis)assembly process rationale. Based on this, the disassembly hypergraph is presented as a concept for recording ‘resource-agnostic disassembly guides’ in (machine-readable) product models to determine required disassembly actions and tools ‘smartly’. The concept builds upon existing models. Additionally, suitable methods for the collection of disassembly information are explored, resulting in preliminary insights from disassembly data collection workshops. Although the approach is promising, future work is needed to expand the concept of the disassembly hypergraph with both guidelines for setting up disassembly ontologies and further systematic disassembly knowledge extraction in order to apply this as a useful means for companies to rationalize their disassembly operations.
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The Internet and computers increasingly determine our daily lives. This goes for almost everyone in the Netherlands. Still, it is mostly teenagers who are well informed on how to use all the possibilities of new technologies. They are building a digital world of their own that parents usually know very little about. This booklet intends to inform teachers, parents and other interested parties on what teenagers are actually doing online and how important it is to keep abreast of the new developments that the Internet and computers bring into their world. On the basis of research into these issues in the Netherlands and abroad we attempt to indicate what the digital world of teenagers looks like and how it differs from that of grown-ups. What do they do, exactly, and why? We also look into teenagers’ ICT behaviour and into dangers and abuse of the Internet. Moreover we provide tips for parents and teachers on how to handle certain phenomena. This book does not pretend to provide an exhaustive overview of the digital world of teenagers. It is focused on some important characteristics and parts of that world. It reports on research of the INHOLLAND Centre for eLearning into various aspects of ICT behaviour among teenagers. The research was undertaken in the spring of 2006, focusing mainly on texting, networking, gaming, dangers and abuse on the Internet and the digital relation between school and the home. Ultimately we are especially concerned with the question of what teenagers really learn in their digital world, and how education can profit. This book also addresses that issue.
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Constante vernieuwingen op het gebied van digitale technologie in zowel prive- als publieke omgevingen kenmerken de huidige samenlevingen en benadrukken de alsmaar belangrijker wordende rol daarin voor socio-technische systemen. De uitdaging is om voorafgaand, tijdens en na de ontwikkeling van deze systemen de mens en zijn digitale, sociale en fysieke omgeving centraal te blijven stellen. Dit vraagt om een duidelijk inzicht in de behoeften, wensen en eisen van mensen, zodat deze vertaald kunnen worden naar digitale technologie die een positieve bijdrage levert aan gezondheid, welzijn en participatie. Toegepast onderzoek naar het ontwerp- en appropriatieproces van digitale technologie voor maatschappelijk welbevinden is nodig om succesvol gebruik, implementatie, evaluatie en opschaling te bevorderen. Een goede samenwerking en beter begrip van elkaars doelen, motieven en werkwijzen, tussen zowel ontwerpers en gebruikers als tussen onderzoek, onderwijs en het werkveld, zijn hiervoor absolute vereisten. Lector Digital Life dr. Somaya Ben Allouch pleit in haar rede voor meer aandacht voor een mensgerichte ontwerpaanpak van digitale technologie. Het onderzoek van het lectoraat richt zich op innovatieve, digitale technologie op het gebied van mens-systeem interactie, sensoren en hun data en creatieve methodes voor gezondheid, welzijn en participatie. In de rede zal nader worden ingegaan op hoe het onderzoek van het lectoraat Digital Life bijdraagt aan het (inter)nationale netwerk van onderzoek, onderwijs en praktijk op het snijvlak van technologie, gezondheid en welzijn.
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Airports have undergone a significant digital evolution over the past decades, enhancing efficiency, effectiveness, and user-friendliness through various technological advancements. Initially, airports deployed basic IT solutions as support tools, but with the increasing integration of digital systems, understanding the detailed digital ecosystem behind airports has become crucial. This research aims to classify technological maturity in airports, using the access control process as an example to demonstrate the benefits of the proposed taxonomy. The study highlights the current digital ecosystem and its future trends and challenges, emphasizing the importance of distinguishing between different levels of technological maturity. The role of biometric technology in security access control is examined, highlighting the importance of proper identification and classification. Future research could explore data collection, privacy, and cybersecurity impacts, particularly regarding biometric technologies in Smart Access Level 4.0. The transition from Smart Access Level 3.0 to 4.0 involves process automation and the introduction of AI, offering opportunities to increase efficiency and improve detection capabilities through advanced data analytics. The study underscores the need for global legislative frameworks to regulate and support these technological advancements.
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