The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is reshaping how product data must be structured across the EU.
Concepts like unique identifiers, material composition, conformity datasets and end-of-life metadata will soon become standard requirements. Most companies should expect to provide structured data across these areas, not a PDF brochure.
If you manufacture anything physical, metalwork, furniture, textiles, plastic products or wood, this is the moment to start structuring your product data.
The DPP is not a document. It is a data obligation. Companies that already hold clean, structured product data will adapt with minimal effort. Companies relying on scattered spreadsheets and tribal knowledge will feel it the most. The work to get ready is the same work that makes your operation run better anyway: define your products as data, and keep a single source of truth.