Evolving product passports for effective and efficient (re)commissioning

Abstract

The process of commissioning in production environments is concerned with the assessment of the operability of assets and their conformity to specified requirements. The utilisation of product life cycle data enables the scope of commissioning to be expanded to encompass not only the immediate fit-for-purpose of an asset, but also its potential for fit-for-repurpose or even fit-for-future-purpose. In this expanded approach, product passports play a pivotal role by isolating asset-specific data. This allows for assets to be embedded within new environments, and facilitates recommissioning. A case study on robotic manipulators explores the gap between physical assets and their digital representations in order to argue potential product passport content for (re)commissioning purposes. Evolving product passports thus offer a means to isolate asset data that support, amongst others, recommissioning for varied operational demands and environments.