Today, we’re excited to launch the PicoNext AI Assistant, a new industry-first, generative artificial intelligence capability in the PicoNext Digital Product Passport (DPP) platform that frees companies from the tedious, manual workflows of organising DPP product data. The PicoNext AI Assistant is the first generative AI product to summarise raw product data into streamlined, user-friendly DPPs, allowing companies to dramatically reduce time and cost in publishing Digital Product Passports required by the European Union and other jurisdictions.
Using PicoNext AI Assistant to distil product data into DPPs
Integrated with the DPP Planner, a one-stop tool in PicoNext to gather and organise DPP product data, the PicoNext AI Assistant allows organisations to upload raw, unstructured product data in a variety of formats. Companies can then use the AI Assistant to automatically and quickly create summaries for sustainability attributes in a DPP template aligned with regulatory standards – including sections for materials origin, carbon footprint, environmental impact, recycling, and more.
Using the PicoNext AI Assistant, companies can avoid costly, bespoke integrations with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and other data silos by harnessing generative AI to analyse and summarise product data into Digital Product Passports.
Customers use PicoNext AI Assistant to accelerate Digital Product Passport creation
Weartek, a manufacturer of high-quality, performance apparel products for workers in mining, oil and gas, construction, government, and emergency services industries, used the PicoNext AI Assistant to accelerate its workflow to communicate important DPP product information to sustainability-minded customers. PicoNext AI Assistant helped Weartek streamline DPP publishing for its new line of personal protective equipment (PPE) designed to provide electrical workers with safe apparel, including with heavy-duty Arc Flash protection.
“Using the PicoNext AI Assistant, we quickly distilled complex, raw data for our Weartek 4836 line of performance workwear products into customer-facing Digital Product Passports,” said Nick Pearce, Founder and Managing Director of Weartek, “With our AI-powered DPPs, we differentiated Weartek with potential customers using our sustainability data — at a fraction of the time and cost than it otherwise would have taken us to do so.”
Preparing DPPs to comply with regulations
“Companies are preparing their Digital Product Passports not only to engage sustainability-focused customers, but to comply with regulations in the European Union and other locations,” said Dave Dickson, Founder of PicoNext. “With the new PicoNext AI Assistant, brands can dramatically reduce the cost and time it takes to prepare Digital Product Passports through generative AI that automatically summarises these key product data points into templates aligned with emerging regulatory standards.”
Generative AI features for Digital Product Passports
The PicoNext AI Assistant includes several features that accelerate the creation of Digital Product Passports, including:
- Flexible Input Formats. Speed DPP creation by using PDFs, web URLs, Microsoft Word documents, Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, and other raw inputs as product data.
- Generative Summary. Extract automatic summaries from product data into DPP sections like materials origin, carbon footprint, energy usage, recycling, and more.
- Multiple Foundational Model Support. Select between multiple foundational large language models for text generation, including OpenAI GPT 4o, OpenAI GPT 3.5 Turbo, and Google Gemini Flash 1.5.
- Prompt Refinement. Use custom, follow-on AI prompts to refine generated output, including focusing on specific product attributes.
- AI Options. Fine-tune options used in generating AI content, including target word count, output variety, and content repetition.
- Review and Edit. Manually review AI-generated content for accuracy, and edit information before publishing.
- Data Privacy. Utilise the AI Assistant knowing that no customer content is used to train the underlying AI model.
View an overview of the PicoNext AI Assistant
Learn more about the PicoNext AI Assistant
- Video demo. View the PicoNext AI Assistant in action in our video demo
- Request consultation. Learn more by requesting a consultation with a PicoNext DPP expert
- Weartek DPP. View the AI-powered Digital Product Passport for the Weartek 4836 line of performance workwear at https://dpp.weartek.com.au/
- Weartek case study. Read more about Weartek’s implementation of AI-powered Digital Product Passports
