Asset Administration Shell Driven (Product) Carbon Footprint Exchange with Data Management Systems

Sustainability is one of the key challenges of our time. With regard to products and their development, there are currently a large number of approaches that deal with the various aspects of sustainability in the sense of the circular economy with the identification, avoidance and optimization of en...

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Main Authors: Weber, Sebastian, Forte, Sven, Savarino, Phillip, Dickopf, Thomas, Apostolov, Christo
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Asset Administration Shell (AAS)
Carbon footprint
Companies
Digital Product Pass (DPP)
Documentation
Engineering
Green products
Guidelines
Manufacturing automation
Optimization
Software
Sustainability
Sustainable development
Systematics
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Summary:Sustainability is one of the key challenges of our time. With regard to products and their development, there are currently a large number of approaches that deal with the various aspects of sustainability in the sense of the circular economy with the identification, avoidance and optimization of environmental impacts under disruptive influences. This is also already being discussed intensively at various levels in politics. Directives such as the EU's Green Deal are one example that particularly addresses the reduction of harmful environmental impacts and the promotion of a circular economy. Approaches such as Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) or the Digital Product Passport (DPP) are intended to provide customers and users with a tool to support purchasing decisions by taking these sustainability and circularity-oriented aspects into account. The data-based implementation and support of such approaches presents companies and suppliers with challenges around technical documentation. Particularly in the case of heterogeneous and globally distributed value chains, companies face highly complex challenges when creating the relevant documentation to comply with the guidelines. This article deals with the Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) as the first step and part of an Environmental Product Declaration and focuses in particular the integration and export of corresponding footprint data and documents across company boundaries along the value chain using Asset Administration Shell approaches. An industrially implemented use case is used to demonstrate a systematic structure in a modular and platform-based sustainable data integration approach using CONTACT Software platform technology.
ISSN:1946-0759
DOI:10.1109/ETFA61755.2024.10710683