Digital Product Passport: Catena-X and OPC Foundation in Dialogue
Catena-X and OPC Foundation webinar highlights collaboration on Digital Product Passport – A joint Reference Architecture for Interoperability
On October 14th, 2025, Catena-X and the OPC Foundation held a webinar detailing their joint effort to enable seamless industrial data exchange in support of the EU Digital Product Passport (DPP). The partnership aligns OPC UA standardization with Catena-X technology and semantics on cross-industry data interoperability to help companies comply with regional regulations, including the DPP requirement by 2027. The session focused on establishing trusted, machine-readable product data across entire value chains to accelerate standardized, cross-company data sharing in manufacturing.
Speakers: Thomas Obermeyer (Catena-X) and Erich Barnstedt (OPC Foundation)
Core areas of cooperation:
- Semantic Integration
- Open-Source Reference Implementations
- Reference Architecture Alignment
- Industrial Ecosystem Enablement