Digital Product Passports in 2026: The Data Gap a QR Code Cannot Fix
A practical look at product identity, evidence ownership, access, and corrections before a passport pilot becomes a permanent information obligation.
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10 analyses · Manufacturing, data & sustainability
Battery Passport 2027: The Readiness Gaps Hiding Behind the Deadline
Prepare for the battery passport with category checks, lifecycle records, evidence sampling, and access decisions that survive real service workflows.
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Agentic AI in Procurement: Who Is Allowed to Press Buy?
Separate supplier search, draft preparation, and purchasing authority, then test whether an agent can respect those boundaries when documents conflict.
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Digital Twins in 2026: Prove This Before Scaling Your Factory Model
A decision-first approach to data frequency, validation, uncertainty, and model maintenance, illustrated through production planning rather than visual demos.
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Your Supplier’s Carbon Number Looks Lower. Is It Actually Better?
Understand product boundaries, allocation, revisions, and evidence before turning a lower carbon figure into a purchasing decision or environmental claim.
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Manufacturing Data Spaces: Why Connected Does Not Automatically Mean Trusted
Explore identity, eligibility, permissions, shared meaning, and operating costs through a bounded supplier capacity exchange.
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Asset Administration Shells: The Interoperability Test Your Demo Might Miss
Move beyond successful imports to test whether asset identity, property meaning, units, revisions, and access remain usable across organizations.
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AI Supplier Onboarding: Faster Profiles, or Faster Mistakes?
A workflow for connecting extracted capability claims to evidence, supplier corrections, qualification decisions, and ongoing review.
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Manufacturing as a Service: Why Capacity Is Not a Delivery Promise
Follow a requirement from discovery to quotation, allocation, and quality evidence while accounting for the work required from both buyer and supplier.
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Supply Chain Resilience: Why Ten Suppliers Can Still Mean One Failure
Find common dependencies hidden behind supplier counts and rehearse realistic inventory, qualification, information system, and recovery decisions.
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