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Supporting eBusiness with a dictionary designed in a vertical standardisation perspective
No full textThe authors, try to redefine the requirements and the logical architecture for a dictionary that supports a vertical collaboration framework in a standardisation perspective; to this aim the analysis of important vertical and horizontal standardisation initiatives (like EDIFACT and the most recent UBL) as well as the difficulties in setting B2B standards, is a key starting point. The paper aims to put in evidence how the requirements deriving from an industrial sector, characterised by the large presence of SMEs, leaded to an advanced and flexible approach; it maintains relationships with the world of B2B standards but differs from the philosophy that animates B2B frameworks, influenced by the EDIFACT experience. The dictionary and the related tools were experienced in the Moda-ML initiative that contributed to set the CEN/ISSS TexSpin and TexWeave specifications for the Textile Clothing industry
Moda-ML: Building a collaborative sectoral framework based on ebXML
No full textInter-company data interchange within a specific industrial sector is necessarily based on standard document formats, structures, and transmission protocols. In this perspective, the MODA-ML project has developed an interoperability architecture for the Textile/Clothing sector based on XML technology; in particular ebXML has been adopted as the reference specification in defining and exchanging business documents
Energy saving and efficiency tool for SMEs of the European textile industry
No full textEfficiency and competitiveness in textile and clothing manufacturing sector must take into account the current and future energy challenges. Energy efficiency is a subject of critical importance for the Textile & Clothing industry, for other sectors and for the society in general. EURATEX has initiated Energy Made-to-Measure, an information campaign running between 2014-2016 to empower over 300 textile & clothing companies, notably SMEs, to become more energy efficient. SET (Save Energy in Textile SMEs), a collaborative project co-funded within the European Programme Intelligent Energy Europe II helps companies to understand their energy consumption and allows them to compare the sector benchmarks in different production processes. SET has developed the SET Scheme, Energy Saving and Efficiency Tool, a free of charge tool customized for textile manufacturers. The SET Scheme is made up of 4 elements: a stand-alone software (SET Tool) for self-assessment based on an Excel application; an on-line part (SET WEB) for advanced benchmarking and comparison of the performances across years; a guiding document for the companies and overview of financial incentives and legal obligations regarding energy efficiency. Designed specifically for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the SET Scheme enables the evaluation of energy consumption and recommends measures to reduce the consumption. Prior to modifying the company's production processes and making investments to increase energy efficiency, textile SMEs need to get different type of information, including legal context, economic and technical peculiarities
Extracting a semantic view from an ebusiness vocabulary
No full textB2B applications needs common formats and standards upon which to implement interoperability tools; in this paper the authors describe an approach to provide a semantic description of a document-based collaborative framework. The starting point is an ISO 11179 compliant vocabulary of business terms and a set of processes and documents, represented using a modular ontology expressed in OWL; the ontology is extracted by a software module in an automatic manner. The authors expect the ontology will support the maintenance of the framework and the data integration toward enterprises. This approach has been applied on a standard dictionary of the Textile/Clothing sector and represents the basis for the development of an ontology, named ONTO-MODA, within the European research project LEAPFROG IP
eBusiness standards and IoT technologies adoption in the fashion industry: Preliminary results of an empirical research
No full textThe present paper aims to analyse the main barriers and drivers that obstacle and push the adoption of an eBusiness standard, such as eBIZ, and IoT technology, such as RFId, within the fashion industry. This purpose represents the first step of the European project “eBIZ 4.0—Enhancing textile/clothing sector by eBIZ and RFIds technologies adoption”, aiming to promote the integration between RFId technology and eBIZ standard for improving data interoperability among companies operating along the fashion supply chain. The tool used for this kind of analysis has been an online survey dispatched to the mailing list of all the project partners belong to different European Community countries and involving both software houses and fashion companies. The survey results have been crossed with the external variables that characterize the analysed companies, in order to classify the evidences related to one or another cluster of companies similar in terms of external variables such as dimension, headquarter location, industry segment. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Supporting software interoperability using standardised interfaces: Issues and needs
No full textThis paper reports the experience, gained in two different European research projects, TexWIN and ARTISAN, in connecting software prototypes with pre-existing enterprise software like ERP and Scheduler. The two systems aim to support human in optimizing the production processes, but their functioning clearly depends also on the collaboration with external software systems; this collaboration is needed for production data collection and the interfacing with enterprise machine control systems. Activities in the projects regarded the analysis and design of a communication system for the data exchange with the enterprise software: various possibilities and existing standards were considered and the feasibility of their adoption established but, despite the declared project objectives, the standard based interfaces were not implemented. The aim of this paper is to describe both the followed approach to introduce standards in the research project activities and to propose a first analysis of the reasons for the missing concrete adoption of standardized interfaces. Copyright © 2015 by the paper's authors. Copying permitted only for private and academic purposes
Barriers and drivers of eBIZ adoption in the fashion supply chain: Preliminary results
No full textThe paper deal with the preliminary research of the European Prohect eBIZ 4.0 - Enhancing textile/clothing sector by eBIZ and RFIds technologies adoption. The objective of the work is to identify the main barriers and drivers in eBIZ adoption and its connection with RFId technology. The methodologies used in order to achieve the result are the explorative research and a single case based research. The main results of this paper is that the principle obstacle in eBIZ adoption is the lack of knowledge of the standard within both software houses than fashion brands, and the high effort in the implementation within the company. Once the project has started, benefits appear clear both to fashion companies than to software houses, and next steps of the project are carried out with lower efforts. © 2018 IEEE
Energy saving and efficiency tool: A sectorial decision support model for energy consumption reduction in manufacturing SMEs
No full textThe problem of Energy Efficiency in industry is a hot topic but companies are not still implementing, on a mass scale, energy efficiency actions. One of the most important barriers is that companies are scarcely aware of their consumptions and consider energy as a fixed cost and not as a resource to be managed. In this paper it is proposed a model, based on self- Analysis of consumptions, for facing this barrier. On the base of this model, a software tool, Energy Saving and Efficiency Tool (ESET), was designed as a starting point of an energy diagnosis path for SMEs. ESET was developed for textile/clothing sector but the model is general and, starting from it, similar sectorial tools can be developed. The tool provides different kinds of outputs: Best practices, for helping companies to improve its own energy performances; energy efficiency indices, compared with reference values; energy use behaviours. Particularly, best practices are selected using a large set of rules, distilled from the experience of professional energy auditors. The analysis of the accuracy and completeness of ESET results was performed on six companies selected among all those involved in ESET testing and application. The results of this evaluation are very encouraging. © Copyright 2016 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved
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