The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the OPC Foundation (Open Platform Communications Foundation) are delighted to announce that they have signed a Liaison Agreement. The organizations will collaborate on the topic of Digital Product Passport (DPP) solutions.
As part of this liaison, the OPC Foundation will contribute directly to the work of CEN-CLC/JTC 24 ‘Digital Product Passport – Framework and System’ by providing added-value expertise and high-quality contributions through direct participation. The cooperation aims to harmonize digital twin modelling and promote interoperable frameworks for DPP solutions across cloud and embedded environments, ensuring high-quality data, compliance, and scalable deployment in sector-specific dataspaces.
The OPC Foundation has been promoting the development and adoption of the OPC information exchange standard since 1996. Its mission is to provide specifications, technologies, processes, and certification to ensure secure and reliable, semantic interoperability across vendors and platforms scaling from sensor to IT/Cloud enterprise level.
The agreement is set for an unlimited period, as long as the OPC Foundation continues to participate in the work of JTC 24.
This cooperation reflects the organizations’ shared ambition to advance a coherent and internationally aligned approach to Digital Product Passports. Bringing together strong industrial expertise and the European standardization system reinforces the commitment to open, interoperable, and globally relevant standards that support Europe’s digital transformation and sustainability objectives.
