Authors:
Bruno Alves
1
;
Michael Schumacher
2
;
Fabian Cretton
2
;
Anne Le Calvé
2
;
Gilles Cherix
3
;
David Werlen
3
;
Christian Gapany
3
;
Bertrand Baeryswil
4
;
Doris Gerber
5
and
Philippe Cloux
5
Affiliations:
1
University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerlandestern Switzerland (HES-SO), Switzerland
;
2
University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland
;
3
Institut Icare, Switzerland
;
4
Fairtrace, Switzerland
;
5
Importexa S.A., Switzerland
Keyword(s):
Traceability, Ontology, Semantic Web, Textile Industry.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Cloud Computing
;
Data Engineering
;
Databases and Information Systems Integration
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Management
;
Non-Relational Databases
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Semantic Web Technologies
;
Services Science
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
This paper presents solutions that leverage SemanticWeb Technologies (SWT) to allow pragmatic traceability in supply-chains, especially for the textile industry. Objectives are the identification of the supply-chain, order management, tracking and problem reporting (such as dangerous substance detection). It is intended to be a generic platform supporting potentially any kind of industrial supply-chain, to be usable in harsh environments (mobile appliances) without any kind of communications possibility and to be fully usable to non-IT people, including for the modeling of the production processes. The developed solutions also allow the consumer to benefit from the traceability through information pages available by scanning the QR codes available on the finished products (clothes, clocks, etc.). This paper presents: i) the methodology applied to achieve those functionalities, ii) the design and implementation choices, and iii) the test results. The main value of this paper is the us
age of the SemanticWeb in real-world industrial traceability solutions, which were tested in real supply-chains in Switzerland and India. The commercialization of the developed solutions is in preparation.
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