The data layer for
European manufacturing.
Manufacturing-X. Digital Product Passport. EU Data Act. Europe is building the infrastructure for a unified industrial data economy. Manufacturers who enter it with structured, interoperable product data will move faster, qualify for more, and bear less risk. Pareo starts with compliance — the most immediate data problem you already have — and builds from there.
Built through 180+ conversations with compliance managers, RoHS engineers, and supply chain directors at European electronics and machinery manufacturers. Incubated at TUM & UnternehmerTUM.
A new industrial data economy is being mandated. Most suppliers aren't ready.
This isn't a future risk. OEM mandates are already written into supplier contracts.4BOMcheck — Siemens, Philips, Schneider Electric, TE Connectivity coalition↗5Intel IPC-1752A requirement — Intel Supplier Portal↗ Regulatory deadlines are fixed in EU law.7EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 — TÜV Rheinland↗ The data infrastructure gap — product data locked in ERP systems, shared drives, and email threads — is a qualification risk today.
The EU Data Act entered into force in January 2024.1EU Data Act — Morgan Lewis, Sep 2025↗ From September 2025, connected product manufacturers are legally required to make product usage data accessible and shareable across the EU single market.1EU Data Act — Morgan Lewis, Sep 2025↗ Structured, interoperable data is no longer optional — it is a legal obligation.
Manufacturing-X — backed by €140 million in federal funding from BMWK2Manufacturing-X — BMWK↗ — is building the cross-sector data space infrastructure for European manufacturing. Factory-X, its largest lighthouse project, runs January 2024 to June 2026 with 40+ consortium partners including Siemens, SAP, TRUMPF, Phoenix Contact, Festo, SICK, and DMG MORI.3Factory-X — Fraunhofer ISST↗ Structured product data connectivity is a built-in participation requirement.
Siemens, Philips, Schneider Electric, and TE Connectivity already require suppliers to submit structured RoHS and REACH declarations at the component level via BOMcheck — a platform co-founded by those same OEMs, now with 480+ OEM members and 3,100+ suppliers.4BOMcheck — Siemens, Philips, Schneider Electric, TE Connectivity coalition↗ Intel requires IPC-1752A Class C/D Full Material Disclosure from all component suppliers as a contractual condition.5Intel IPC-1752A requirement — Intel Supplier Portal↗ This is not a future data space mandate. It is in supplier agreements today.
The EU Battery Passport — the first hard Digital Product Passport deadline — requires all EV and industrial batteries to carry a machine-readable product record from February 2027.7EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 — TÜV Rheinland↗ Electronics, machinery, and other sectors follow under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation.
The EU Data Act entered into force in January 2024.1EU Data Act — Morgan Lewis, Sep 2025↗ From September 2025, connected product manufacturers are legally required to make product usage data accessible and shareable across the EU single market.1EU Data Act — Morgan Lewis, Sep 2025↗ Structured, interoperable data is no longer optional — it is a legal obligation.
Manufacturing-X — backed by €140 million in federal funding from BMWK2Manufacturing-X — BMWK↗ — is building the cross-sector data space infrastructure for European manufacturing. Factory-X, its largest lighthouse project, runs January 2024 to June 2026 with 40+ consortium partners including Siemens, SAP, TRUMPF, Phoenix Contact, Festo, SICK, and DMG MORI.3Factory-X — Fraunhofer ISST↗ Structured product data connectivity is a built-in participation requirement.
Siemens, Philips, Schneider Electric, and TE Connectivity already require suppliers to submit structured RoHS and REACH declarations at the component level via BOMcheck — a platform co-founded by those same OEMs, now with 480+ OEM members and 3,100+ suppliers.4BOMcheck — Siemens, Philips, Schneider Electric, TE Connectivity coalition↗ Intel requires IPC-1752A Class C/D Full Material Disclosure from all component suppliers as a contractual condition.5Intel IPC-1752A requirement — Intel Supplier Portal↗ This is not a future data space mandate. It is in supplier agreements today.
The EU Battery Passport — the first hard Digital Product Passport deadline — requires all EV and industrial batteries to carry a machine-readable product record from February 2027.7EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 — TÜV Rheinland↗ Electronics, machinery, and other sectors follow under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation.
Federal funding committed to Manufacturing-X — the data space infrastructure for German mechanical and electrical engineering.2Manufacturing-X — BMWK↗
Electronics OEMs including Siemens, Philips, Schneider Electric, and TE Connectivity require structured RoHS and REACH declarations from all suppliers as a contractual condition — today, not in a future data space.4BOMcheck — Siemens, Philips, Schneider Electric, TE Connectivity coalition↗
First hard DPP deadline under EU law: all EV and industrial batteries placed on the EU market must carry a machine-readable Digital Product Passport.7EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 — TÜV Rheinland↗
Compliance is where the urgency is today. The structured product data it produces is the foundation for data space participation, Digital Product Passports, and the automated supply chain exchanges OEMs will require next.
Every compliance interaction builds your data layer.
Each request Pareo handles — capturing, assembling, validating, and outputting product data — adds to a machine-readable product record built to Manufacturing-X-compatible standards. You're handling today's workload and building the infrastructure for data space participation at the same time.
Every compliance interaction is a structured data input.
Compliance requests arrive in every format — an email with a PDF, an Excel template from procurement, a portal notification, a standalone questionnaire. Pareo ingests each one automatically, extracts the product identifiers and regulatory requirements, and begins building the structured data record needed to respond.
The request isn't just a task to handle. It's a signal about what product data you need to have — and keep current.
The same team. A data layer that works.
Pareo doesn't replace your compliance specialists. It removes the part of their job that shouldn't exist — while building the product data infrastructure your company needs.
What used to take hours to days of searching, formatting, and submitting now completes within a few minutes.
Of manual research and documentation effort eliminated per request — freeing your engineers for work that actually needs their expertise.
Audit trail on every response. Every answer linked to its source document, retrievable in seconds when an auditor comes knocking.
Based on benchmark processing of real supplier documentation across pilot workflows.
OEM qualification readiness
Siemens, Philips, Schneider Electric, and TE Connectivity already require structured material declarations from electronics suppliers via BOMcheck. BMW, Ford, and other automotive OEMs have mandated data space participation. Suppliers with structured, validated product data qualify faster across all of these requirements — and are positioned for every new mandate that follows.
Data space participation
Every validated product record Pareo generates is built to Manufacturing-X-compatible standards. You're not preparing for data spaces — you're building your presence in them from day one. The compliance requests you handle today are the foundation for full data space participation tomorrow.
Regulatory future-proofing
The EU Battery Passport is mandatory from February 2027. ESPR-based DPPs follow for electronics, machinery, and textiles. As requirements expand, the foundation is already in place. New regulations become new queries against structured data you already own — not new projects.
Compliance requests aren't going away — and they're only the beginning. Every piece of structured, validated product data your team generates is a building block for data space participation, Digital Product Passport readiness, and the automated supply chain exchanges that OEMs will require next. Pareo means you're building the foundation while handling today's workload.
The rules keep expanding. So does what your data must do.
Compliance obligations are growing — but the bigger shift is structural. The EU Data Act establishes rights and obligations around industrial data sharing across the single market. Manufacturing-X2Manufacturing-X — BMWK↗ is building the data space infrastructure where machine builders, electrical equipment manufacturers, and their supply chains exchange product data automatically. Factory-X3Factory-X — Fraunhofer ISST↗ extends this to the shop floor. Every one of these initiatives requires the same thing: your product data, structured and interoperable.
BOMcheck — co-founded by Siemens, Philips, and GE Healthcare — requires suppliers to submit RoHS and REACH declarations at component level. 480+ OEM members, 3,100+ suppliers. Structured material data is the entry requirement for most electronics supply chains.4BOMcheck — Siemens, Philips, Schneider Electric, TE Connectivity coalition↗
Intel requires IPC-1752A Class C or Class D (Full Material Disclosure) from all component suppliers via its Environmental Compliance Portal. A contractual condition, not an aspiration.5Intel IPC-1752A supplier requirement↗
Catena-X data space registration mandatory for all suppliers as part of the BMW Group procurement process.6BMW Group mandate — BMW Newsroom, 2025↗
Catena-X included in supplier contract terms. Relevant for any electronics manufacturer supplying into automotive.7Ford contracts — Plattform Industrie 4.0, Apr 2025↗
Co-founders of Manufacturing-X alongside BMWK, representing 4,500+ machinery and electrical/electronic manufacturers. "Small and medium-sized companies in particular will be able to exchange their data more easily and share it with third parties on an equal footing."8ZVEI & VDMA — Manufacturing-X Data Space Study, Fraunhofer ISST, Aug 2023↗ — Gunther Koschnick, ZVEI, 2023
Led by Siemens and SAP with 40+ consortium partners: TRUMPF, Phoenix Contact, Festo, SICK, DMG MORI, and others.3Factory-X — Fraunhofer ISST↗ Structured product data connectivity is a built-in participation requirement from day one.
The compliance obligations you handle today are being replaced by something harder.
In December 2025, the European Commission proposed repealing the SCIP database — citing 15 million submissions that were "administratively costly but not effective" — and replacing it with the Digital Product Passport.11EU Environmental Omnibus — SCIP repeal proposal, Mayer Brown, Dec 2025↗ The DPP requires the same substance and material data, but in a machine-readable, standardised format that any system in the supply chain can query automatically.
The structured product data Pareo generates for today's RoHS, REACH, and SCIP obligations maps directly to what the DPP will require. Every compliance request handled now is a building block for the infrastructure that replaces it.
Built on the same principle as the data spaces you're joining.
The Datenraum ecosystem — GAIA-X, IDS, Manufacturing-X — exists because manufacturers refused to upload crown-jewels data to a central platform they didn't control. The entire architecture was designed around one principle: data stays with the owner; access is granted, not surrendered.
Pareo is built the same way — not as a compliance feature added later, but as a structural consequence of how it works. Your product data stays in your systems. What Pareo generates belongs to you, in formats you can take anywhere.
Your ERP stays the system of record
Pareo is designed to query your ERP and PLM directly — retrieving structured product data at the moment it's needed, not accumulating a copy inside Pareo's systems. Direct ERP and PLM connectors are rolling out in 2026. Until then, documents you process stay in storage you control.
EU infrastructure
All data processing takes place within EU-based infrastructure. Documents and unstructured data you process through Pareo stay within European VPCs — no transatlantic data flows.
Standards-based, portable records
Pareo structures the data it processes into AAS-compatible records — the Asset Administration Shell format that underpins Manufacturing-X and the Digital Product Passport. The structured output belongs to you, in a format that works with any data space connector, whether you continue using Pareo or not.
Self-hosted storage
Document storage can be deployed in your own infrastructure. You bring the storage layer; Pareo uses it. Your unstructured data — lab reports, supplier declarations, material certificates — stays in an environment you control and can audit independently.
When your CISO asks what Pareo holds: compliance records generated from your data, in open formats, in storage you control. When your CTO asks about ERP access: read-only, to the specific fields a compliance request needs, at the moment it's processed — that's the architecture we're building toward, and why storage is yours from day one. That's the answer before the first meeting.
Talk to the team.
Most manufacturers we speak with have never mapped their compliance exposure. Start there. One conversation is usually enough to know whether Pareo is the right fit.