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February 17, 2026

Product Carbon Footprint: Batch-wise calculation and logging

Many products are made from powder and liquid raw materials. OAS AG supports such production processes with their MES (Manufacturing Execution System) pronto. Starting with the product BOM (Bill Of Material) as provided by the ERP (Enterprise Ressource Planning) system pronto controls all material bookings on the shop floor level. At choice, customers can log the entire material flow on incoming batch number or even SSCC (Serial Shipping Container Code) level to the full complex extent as given by the specified production workflow. This also includes any manual dosing and material handling e.g. from bags or drums. “Automation Islands” such as Big Bag units, tank farms, silo plants and any kind of machines, i.e. technical units which have not been integrated into the production network yet become part of MES control. Thus, the ERP’s production orders (POs) become available on the shop floor level and material consumptions as well as yield and non-good materials will be reported back from MES to the ERP system in due time. Details on the production process can be retrieved from The MES batch logs. 

As a result of the PSS-Pass project pronto’s capabilities of data processing intend to be extended with respect to the Product Carbon Footprint (PCF), a major KPI for sustainable resource usage. In this context pronto benefits from Digital Product Passport (DPP) infrastructure as specified and provided by PSS-Pass project. The DPP from incoming raw materials which include their PCF as input data shall be processed along the production workflow chain resulting in the product PCF on batch level. For the time being the raw materials PCF could also be defined as editable input value by material type. The batch protocol intends to be deployed as the DPP for manufactured products at customer’s will respectively according to future legal regulations as issued by the European Union. For battery manufacturers this kind of information provision is mandatory from early 2027 already. 

To improve DPP services, OAS has joined the PSS-Pass consortium. PSS-Pass will add all kinds of services to the DPP that presently omits any process (service) activities that have been applied to the product. In other words: The production process represents a service that will be made available to the DPP too. That extends the DPP to DPSSP (Digital Product Service System Passport) which may provide a representation of the entire batch protocol including raw material consumptions (as possible today in the DPP) as well as all process steps during production (new in DPSSP). 

It should be clearly emphasized that the DPSSP owner and publisher may restrict access rights to any content for different stakeholders, to the extent permitted by law.

MES pronto users would take benefit from the knowledge of batch referenced energy consumptions throughout the entire production process. PCF values may be published to the general public, corresponding to end customers, or any other stakeholder at will or according to future regulations.