Digitalization and sustainability are two central issues of society and thus also of industry. For this reason, the Plattform Industrie 4.0 defined sustainability as one of the three pillars of its strategy in its guiding principle 2030 – Leitbild 2030 - presented in 2018. The comprehensive digitalization of the industrial value creation network opens up numerous opportunities to attain sustainability goals in an economically feasible way. Standardization plays a major role in expanding the different approaches under discussion. The SCI 4.0 takes up the developments and approaches under discussion, and coordinates corresponding standardization projects.
One approach under developemtn is circular economy. A consistent and cost-effective collection and distribution of information regarding the properties and material composition of goods and products enables the information to be used optimally over the entire product life cycle. One example is a digital battery product pass that enables the stationary reuse of used electric vehicles batteries. As soon as this reuse aka. “second-life” use comes to an end, information about the material composition of batteries allows safe and economical extraction and recycling of the materials.
Another important pitch is the minimization of energy and resource consumption through digitalization. Due to current legislation, many products must be accompanied by printed documents. In the industrial world many of these documents end up in the trash unread, as companies often buy and use a large number of instances of a certain type of product. A “digital nameplate” or a digital product passport can significantly reduce the amount of paper used. Here, too, standards play a central role, as they describe what a standardized digital product passport should look like and thereby ensures that there is no such thing as “just any arbitrary digital nameplate” based on proprietary data formats.
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