In an era marked by globalization and rapid technological advancements, the agri-food sector confronts both unprecedented challenges and opportunities. Among these, digital traceability systems have emerged as pivotal in enhancing operational efficie...
Achieving transition towards sustainable and resilient food systems is a critical issue on the current societal agenda. This study examined the potential contribution of digitalization of the food system to such transition by reviewing 76 relevant jo...
NBA (National Basketball Association) trading cards are a hot collector’s item, with sales increasing rapidly every year. However, with the popularity of online trading, some sellers have started to intentionally and unintentionally sell imitat...
As severe selection and declining population numbers in many breeds have resulted in losses in the worldwide livestock genetic biodiversity, human concern about the situation of genetic variety in livestock breeds and their conservation has grown. In...
The increasing scale of honey adulteration poses a significant challenge for modern food quality and safety management systems. Honey authenticity, defined as the conformity of products with their declared botanical and geographical origin, is challe...
This study analyzes how sustainability research in the textile and apparel industry is structured and argues that technological innovation—while essential for sustainable transformation—cannot generate meaningful impact when pursued in is...
Data spaces are digital realms of data and information shared between stakeholders and peer groups. They underpin several developments in sectors ranging from the automotive industry, through social sciences, to governmental networks. Digital traceab...
Under the context of increasing demand for transparency, efficiency, and trust in food systems, digital traceability is emerging as a key strategy for improving value creation across agri-food supply chains. This study investigates how different gove...
Digital technologies are essential tools that enable traceability in supply chains. In low-income countries, traceability represents a challenge due to the complicated structure of supply chains and the involvement of multiple stakeholders. This rese...
Digitalization is key for an organization to achieve sustainability leadership, to be able to conform with sustainability objectives, support claims, and inform consumers and consecutive stakeholders. However, there is no impartial, credible, and uni...
Background: This article’s main goal is to examine how digital platforms and supply chain traceability (SCT) might contribute to robust information and efficient inventory management (EIM); Methods: SmartPLS3 software was used in conjunction wi...
Industrialized processing has increased the complexity of the food supply chain. Concerns about food-related risks have increased consumer interest in food traceability. Traceability systems are regarded as effective tools for mitigating information...
As the global pharmaceutical market continues to expand, the demand for pharmaceutical supply chain is increasing. In the context of “Industry 4.0”, the pharmaceutical supply chain sector needs to accelerate digital construction. Pharmace...
It is generally recognized that the use of physical and digital information-based solutions for tracking plastic materials along a value chain can favour the transition to a circular economy and help to overcome obstacles. In the near future, traceab...
Annually, the global plastic waste generation adds up to over 353 million tonnes, which is associated with substantial environmental and societal issues, such as microplastic pollution and landfill management. Despite many attempts to integrate susta...
With the rise of globalization and technological competition, the food supply chain has grown more complex due to the multiple players and factors involved in the chain. Traditional systems fail to offer effective and reliable traceability solutions...
Metrological traceability is essential to ensure the reliability of calibration tests. Calibration certificates usually include information on only one upper-level reference standard. As metrological traceability is multi-layered, generally there is...
The growing importance of digitalising food traceability systems can be attributed to mounting food safety incidents and customer demand for sustainable products. However, most previous studies focused on a specific technology in supply chain managem...
31 October 2022
Cannabis is increasingly accepted by medical organizations for medicinal and research purposes. A traceability system is required for monitoring and controlling the use of cannabis. This work aimed to investigate the relationship between critical suc...
Agricultural supply chains face growing scrutiny due to rising concerns over food authenticity, safety, and sustainability. These challenges stem from issues such as contamination risks, fraudulent labelling, and the absence of reliable, real-time tr...
Digitalization and the use of autonomous systems challenge companies in new ways, particularly concerning the automatic distribution of tasks. Various approaches are being discussed in research, specifically in the field of multi-agent systems. Howev...
Digital metrology enables precise, real-time measurement and data analysis using digital tools, which enhances accuracy and efficiency in manufacturing and quality control. Among key enabling technologies, Digital Twins allow continuous control, enab...
Ensuring product quality and safety is fundamental to sustainable production and consumption. With the rapid advancement of digital technologies such as blockchain and big data, quality and safety traceability systems have become essential tools to e...
Metrological traceability is essential for ensuring the accuracy of measurement results and enabling a comparison of results to support decision-making in society. This paper explores a structured approach to modelling traceability chains, focusing o...
Plastic recycling is critical to transitioning toward a circular economy (CE), yet traceability systems for recycled plastics remain unevenly adopted. While effective traceability supports transparency, compliance, and supply chain accountability, it...
This research paper investigates the importance of traceability in the meat industry. It explains that the global market’s intense competition and consumers’ increased expectations have forced companies to implement electronic traceabilit...
IoT systems based on collaborative sensor networks are becoming increasingly common in various industries owing to the increased availability of low-cost sensors. The quality of the data provided by these sensors may be unknown. For these reasons, ad...
This is the first work to introduce the use of blockchain technology for the electronic traceability of wood from standing tree to final user. Infotracing integrates the information related to the product quality with those related to the traceabilit...
This article presents an integrated framework for robust control and cybersecurity of an industrial robot, combining Quantitative Feedback Theory (QFT), digital twin (DT) technology, and a programmable logic controller–based architecture aligne...
In smart home projects, building data management at the design stage increasingly relies on digital-twin assets delivered via game engines. Without a clear governance workflow, however, these practices tend to generate non-standard building data on t...
26 January 2022
Scientists believed the outbreak of COVID-19 could be linked to the consumption of wild animals, so food safety and hygiene have become the top concerns of the public. An agri-food traceability system becomes very important in this context because it...
Objective: This study provides a comprehensive global overview of surgical instrument traceability systems and accentuates their growing importance in healthcare. Background: Surgical instruments pose risks to patient safety, economic costs, logistic...
Recent progress in IoT and software development has simplified data acquisition and immutability of information in the agri-food supply chain. In the last few years, several frameworks and applications were proposed to ensure traceability in the agri...
Aroma and taste have long been considered important indicators of quality coffee. Specialty coffee, that is, coffee from a single estate, farm, or village in a coffee-growing region, in particular, has a unique aroma that reflects the coffee-producin...
Information asymmetry leads to farmers’ opportunistic behavior of disobeying pest control regulations in certified vegetable areas, but the improvement of farmers’ digital literacy has become an important means to break through the constr...
There is currently interest in the digitalisation of metrology because technologies that can measure, analyse, and make critical decisions autonomously are beginning to emerge. The notions of metrological traceability and measurement uncertainty shou...
Many hospitals still lack digital traceability in hygiene and cleaning management, leading to operational inefficiencies and inconsistent quality control. This study aims to establish cleaning and hygiene processes in healthcare services that are pla...
Traditional horticultural information systems lack fine-grained, transparent on-farm event traceability, often providing only high-level post-harvest summaries. These systems also fail to standardise and integrate diverse data sources, ensure data pr...
Quality management during construction is critical to ensuring compliance with technical specifications and quality standards. Traditional practices often rely on manual, paper-based documentation, leading to inefficiencies, data fragmentation, and p...
Digital innovation is rapidly transforming the agriculture sector, drawing attention from global development institutions, policymakers, tech firms, and scholars aimed at aligning food systems with international goals like Zero Hunger and the FAO age...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is characterized by a large number of interconnected devices or assets. Measurement instruments in the IoT are typically digital in the sense that their indications are available only as digital output. Moreover, a growin...
The electronic tendering and bidding system has realized the digitalization, networking, and high integration of the whole process of tendering, bidding, bid evaluation, and contract, which has a wide range of applications. However, the trust degree,...
This article depicts the role of the Digital Calibration Certificate (DCC) for an end-to-end digital quality infrastructure and as the basis for developments that are designated by the keyword “Industry 4.0”. Furthermore, it describes the...
Background: In the evolving landscape of pathology, Laboratory Information Systems (LISs) have become essential tools for ensuring traceability, efficiency, and data security in diagnostic workflows. Methods: This study presents a comprehensive compa...
Digital electronic detonators, as a civil explosive, are of prime importance for people’s life and property safety in the process of production and operation. Therefore, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Pu...
The increasing complexity of mechanical manufacturing demands intelligent, integrated solutions to maintain high levels of precision, efficiency, and traceability. While ERP systems provide centralized management for core business functions, they oft...
Traceability is a cornerstone of sustainable honey production and consumption. Honey fraud and a lack of traceability have been recently highlighted by the European Commission. Innovative systems aimed at guaranteeing food safety ’from farm to...
The rapid increase in waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) creates major environmental and governance issues in developing countries like Ecuador struggle because they with minimal formal collection and recycling rates. This research pres...
This paper proposes a framework to automate the generation of traceable and protected documentation of complex assembly processes. The final assembly in aviation, automotive, and appliances industries is a rigorous process that has limited capabiliti...
NFT is a kind of virtual token derived from the blockchain. In 2019, the NFT transaction market became a new force in the field of the digital economy, while NFT fraud was also widespread. There is no efficient technology or methods to ensure the aut...
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