Efficient tracking for short‐term multi‐company networks

Kärkkäinen, Mikko; Ala‐Risku, Timo; Främling, Kary

doi:10.1108/09600030410552249

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“…The DIALOG system is mainly used for testing and verifying new concepts and models for research purposes. It has also been used in two industrial pilots in a multi-enterprise setting in 2002 and in 2004 for tracking shipments in project deliveries (Kärkkäinen, et al, 2004). The current DIALOG implementation supports three protocols and data formats for message passing.…”

Section: Id@uri Approach and Dialog Information Systemmentioning

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

Främling¹,

Harrison

Brusey

et al. 2007

International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing

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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 this paper, we analyze and compare the three main currently known approaches for achieving such functionality, i.e. the EPC Network, DIALOG and WWAI.

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Section: Id@uri Approach and Dialog Information Systemmentioning

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

Främling¹,

Harrison

Brusey

et al. 2007

International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing

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“…lacking in intelligence, and the operational scope of detection being limited to a few echelons (Karkkainen et al, 2004).…”

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Detecting disturbances in supply chains: the case of capacity constraints

Shukla

Naim

2017

IJLM

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Purpose -The ability to detect disturbances quickly as they arise in a supply chain helps to manage them efficiently and effectively. This paper is aimed at demonstrating the feasibility of automatically, and therefore quickly detecting a specific disturbance, which is constrained capacity at a supply chain echelon.Design/Methodology/approach -Different supply chain echelons of a simulated four echelon supply chain were individually capacity constrained to assess their impacts on the profiles of system variables, and to develop a signature that related the profiles to the echelon location of the capacity constraint. A review of disturbance detection techniques across various domains formed the basis for considering the signature based technique.Findings -The signature for detecting a capacity constrained echelon was found to be based on cluster profiles of shipping and net inventory variables for that echelon as well as other echelons in a supply chain, where the variables are represented as spectra.Originality/value-Detection of disturbances in a supply chain including that of constrained capacity at an echelon has seen limited research where this study makes a contribution.

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“…Since the URI part uses existing standards and since there exists many possible standards for the ID part, this approach does not need any new identifier standards. Middleware software was implemented and used in two industrial pilots for tracking shipments in project deliveries [8]. Another approach for creating references between product items and the product agent is the Electronic Product Code (EPC) [9].…”

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Design patterns for managing product life cycle information

Främling¹,

Ala‐Risku²,

Kärkkäinen³

et al. 2007

Commun. ACM

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As the number of companies participating in the manufacturing of products increases, the challenges on managing the product life cycle also increase. A major challenge is how to manage product-related information when it is spread on computer systems of multiple companies. It is possible to perform this task in many ways ranging from centralised "portal" systems to distributed peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures. This paper attempts to point out the advantages and drawbacks of these different approaches for managing of product information through the products' whole lifecycle. Design Patterns from object-oriented programming are presented as a potential model for organizing product information and operations performed on it.

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Efficient tracking for short‐term multi‐company networks

Cited by 70 publications

References 25 publications

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

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

Detecting disturbances in supply chains: the case of capacity constraints

Design patterns for managing product life cycle information

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