SOCIETAL SUSTAINABILITY
From designers through material sourcing providers, manufacturers and retailers – the Trace4Value project brings together stakeholders to tackle the complex challenge of transforming global value chains to be more sustainable, climate-neutral, and circular.
65 partners across industrial sectors have collaborated to develop key tools for the circular economy.
Digital product passports
Swedish industries, like many others worldwide, are embedded in global supply chains that need to meet upcoming European regulations.
– Anyone who launches a product on the European market will need to be able to share data about the product’s origin – a digital product passport, says Trace4Value project leader Malin Rosqvist from the strategic innovation programme PiiA, Processindutrial IT & Automation.
The digital product passports will allow businesses to share essential product data about, ensuring transparency and compliance. Different materials will need different solutions, ex steel is very different from textile.
Open traceability lab
The Trace4value system demonstrators have showcased practical solutions for digital product passports, providing stakeholders with insights into how a federated traceability system could be turned into reality.
– We are building on existing systems within the companies, and use meta-data to tag data for a distributed or federated system to enforce interoperability between different existing systems. ID carriers can come in different shapes and formats where QR codes is one, Malin explains.
The team’s work is not only about compliance but also about making industries more competitive, sustainable, and resilient.
– System development and interoperability is still a challenge that needs to be addressed in different ways in different industrial sectors.
Trace4Value will be presenting at Processteknik in Gothenburg, October 8th. and the PiiA Impact & Innovation Summit in Västerås, October 16th. Sign up>
Trace4Value is a partnership initiated by Swedish Mining Innovation, Re:Source, BioInnovation, PiiA, Smart Built Environment and Metalliska (national strategic innovation programmes) which are represented in the project steering committee to ensure synergies and to bring results to their respective sectors. Funding comes from Vinnova through the Sustainable Industry program.
