http://www.cs.hut.fi/~framling/Publications/intelligentproducts_final.pdf

Intelligent Products: A survey

https://research.aalto.fi/files/27419629/1_s2.0_S0926580517305964_main.pdf

A framework for integrating BIM and IoT through open standards

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01635646/document

Current trends on ICT technologies for enterprise information systems

Supply chain product visibility may be defined to mean the capacity of the supply chain to have a view of a product's lifecycle, from its conception, manufacturing, distribution, delivery to the end customer, customer's experience of the product, and the product's end-of-life activities and processes. This implies developing and keeping a record of the product's materials and components, its physical state throughout the supply chain, the product's forward movement to the user-customer, customer's experience of the product, and the reverse logistics and reuse or termination of the product. The aim of visibility is to foster planning, control and agility of operations associated with the product and to improve customer experience of the product. ''Tracking'' is the term often used to describe the determination of the identity and state of a product in the forward direction (from manufacturing to the end user), while ''tracing'' is used to infer the product's path and history from downstream to upstream of the supply chain. In recent times there has been an upsurge of academic and commercial interest in product visibility. This interest has translated into numerous architectures, technologies and software for product visibility, both at the atomic (item) and composite (or aggregate) levels. Based on an extensive content analysis of academic and trade literature, including websites and documents of vendors and users of the technologies, this paper captures, analyses, compares and contrasts the design choices, essence, results and current and potential future impacts of some of the recent developments. The study also used survey by questionnaire across industries to assess user requirements of tracking and tracing systems and structures. The paper also charts future research directions for end-to-end visibility of product classes and their instances in supply chains.

Supply chain product visibility: Methods, systems and impacts

Product intelligence in industrial control: Theory and practice

Managing product information for product items during their whole lifetime is challenging, especially during their usage and end-of-life phases. The main difficulty is to maintain a communication link between the product item and its associated information as the product item moves over organizational borders and between different users. As network access will typically not be continuous during the whole product-item lifecycle, it is necessary to embed at least a globally unique product identifier (GUPI) that makes it possible to identify the product item anytime during its lifecycle. A GUPI also has to provide a linking mechanism to product information that may be stored in backend systems of different organizations. GUPIs are thereby a cornerstone for enabling the Internet of Things, where 'intelligent products' can communicate over the Internet. In the current paper, we analyse and compare the three main currently known approaches for achieving such functionality, i.e. the EPC Network, DIALOG and WWAI.

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Requirements on unique identifiers for managing product lifecycle information: comparison of alternative approaches

Product lifecycle management (PLM) is often considered an interorganisational issue, where only organisations produce product information. This view fails to take into account the products themselves as information providers, which occurs mainly during the product’s usage phase. The required item-specific information management infrastructure may be a challenge for traditional information systems. In this paper, we study how different approaches of centralized versus distributed information management are suitable for item-specific information management. A real-life PLM application is used for deriving generic assessment criteria. These criteria are then used for assessing the different approaches against the specific application. The results of the paper are the following: 1) a description of different approaches for implementing item-specific information management and 2) a set of assessment criteria for evaluating the approaches and 3) an example assessment for a specific PLM application. Keyword: Product Lifecycle Management, Instance Specific Information Management, Middleware, Benefit Analysis, Remanufacturing Corcelle, Främling, Rabe, Anke, Petrow

Jouni Petrow

Papers

Requirements on unique identifiers for managing product lifecycle information: comparison of alternative approaches

Assessment of item-specific information management approaches in the area of heavy load vehicles