Machine-Readable Documents: Challenges and Opportunities for Labs/CABs

Explore how machine-readable documents are evolving within international standardization, metrology, and QI, including DPP, DCC, DRM, DRMD

Recent regulatory developments and digital initiatives, including the implementation of Digital Product Passports and the broader transition toward Digital Quality Infrastructure, are accelerating the need for technical and regulatory information to be available in structured, standardized and interoperable digital formats, essential to ensure reliable data exchange, traceability, and trust between systems.

Machine-readable documents provide the foundation for this transformation by enabling automated processing of technical information, reducing administrative burdens, and improving transparency across value chains. They are already being implemented in emerging tools and frameworks such as digital calibration certificates (DCC), digital product passports (DPP), smart standards, and smart regulatory documents.

This webinar will explore how machine-readable documents are evolving within international standardisation, metrology, and quality infrastructure communities. It will bring together experts from national metrology institutes, standardization bodies, and digital innovation initiatives to discuss practical implementation, ongoing standardization efforts, and future opportunities.

The session aims to facilitate exchange across technical, regulatory, and digital communities to provide an overview of current tools, guidance, and case studies. The session will also include a Q&A session to foster dialogue.

Objectives:

- Provide an overview of machine-readable documents used in quality assurance and conformity assessment

- Present current tools and case studies, including DPP, DCC, DCR and DRMD

- Discuss how machine-readable documents support data trust, traceability, and integrity across digital quality infrastructure ecosystems

- Explore future applications, including their potential relevance for AI

- Facilitate cross-community discussion on interoperability challenges and opportunities for collaboration

Confrimed speakers:

• Kruno Milicevic, Croatian Metrology Society (HMD).
• Benjamin Helfritz, German National Standards Organisation (DIN).
• Claudia Koch, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM).
• Johannes Van de Kreeke, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM).
• Oksana Baer and Shanna Schönhals, German National Metrology Institute (PTB).
• Tobias Pflock, AUDITTRAILS.