An Overview of Traceability: Towards a general multi-domain model

Abstract

Traceability for some people, is merely a tool to keep a history over something important that happened in the past. For others, is has no added value to their actual processes or products. In fact, it is becoming more and more valued. Traceability is still a vast area of research and an undiscovered field that if it is well used and managed, can provide a set of critical information or lead to something bigger. Many researches are still working to enhance its use and its integration by providing solutions to help users better manage and control their different elements (products, source code, documents, requirements, specifications, etc.)

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“…Raw materials influence many businesses orientated events; such include general price index, activity level, and ultimately the profit generated by companies. According to Souali, Rahmaoui, and Ouzzif, (2017) "traceability can be defined as the ability to keep a detailed history of all activities and changes that a particular object can undergo throughout its entire lifecycle, taking into account the different relationships that may appear. This particular object can be a material, a product, a model, or even a class in a software development platform.…”

Factors Affecting the Adoption of Smart Technologies for Traceability of Raw Materials in the Retail Industry

“…Following this would include the action of traceability to trace back and identify the cause of the problem. In the field of raw materials, process industries make use of production processes that change material properties to create enhanced raw materials for subsequent use in many different areas in a supply chain (Souali, Rahmaoui, & Ouzzif, 2017). Process firms make use of such raw materials to manufacture or produce incomplete products via production processes, where such materials are then transformed into a continuous flow in batches (Florén et al, 2013).…”