e-Traceability: traceability for collaborative spread CAD-CAM-CNC manufacturing chains.

Abstract:- On complex and flexible industrial collaboration environments, manufacturing traceability has to move from a traditional internal enterprise activity-based view to a collaborative and distributed one. The objective is to implement global traceability: traceability of the whole manufacturing process when performed by several partner companies (extended enterprise). The paper proposes a model to support e-traceability in CAD-CAM collaborative chains to assure that traceability data will be understandable and available whenever required, no matter the product or the manufacturing process complexity. The model tries to automate as much as possible traceability activities by defining an explicit link between the traceability data and the product structure defined in ISO STEP standard. This model provides data significance and drives the data transfer through industrial partners along the supply chain