Open Repair Data Standard – Open Repair Alliance
The Open Repair Data Standard (ORDS) is an initiative to create a unified format for collecting and sharing repair data for electronics. By standardizing this information, the alliance aims to identify global trends in product failures and repairability.
Why it matters
Standardized repair data is essential for promoting the 'right to repair' movement and improving the sustainability of consumer electronics.
The Open Repair Data Standard (ORDS) defines a shared approach towards collecting and sharing repair data about small electricals and electronics. The goal of this standard is to make it easy to combine open data on electronics repair that has been collected by many different groups.
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