Data Lakehouses for Enabling Digital Product Passport Orchestration

Data lakehouses could enable a structured approach to managing and exchanging product life cycle data, supporting regulatory compliance and collaboration. The emerging data lakehouse architecture unifies heterogenous data within a single environment that supports consistent storage, processing, and exchange. This paper explores the role of data lakehouses for digital product passports (DPPs) orchestration by presenting a conceptual data lakehouse architecture deployment, exemplified by considering product life cycle data exchange in the electric vehicle battery value chain. The concept development was based on a literature review enabling the identification of regulatory DPP data requirements and data requirements to support CE strategies. A preliminary consultation with data engineering experts supported the development of the conceptual data lakehouse-based architecture. This paper complements sustainability research on digitalization by exploring the potential of data lakehouse architectures for product life cycle data management. It further holds practical relevancy in providing impulses for DPP orchestration and implementation.