Traceability exists in many food supply chains for valid economic reasons, one of which is improving food safety and quality. Some politicians and consumer groups are calling for increased identity preservation in systems where traceability has not yet been adopted. In this paper, we explore the implications of adding traceability to a food supply chain that already includes an inspection proto...

Software traceability is a required component of many software development processes. Advocates of requirements traceability cite advantages like easier program comprehension and support for software maintenance (i.e., software change). However, despite its growing popularity, there exists no published evaluation about the usefulness of requirements traceability. It is important, if not crucial...

Traceability, the ability to track parts and products, is a necessity for many enterprise applications. These include pilferage reduction, counterfeit prevention, and targeted recalls. In this paper, we share lessons learned from a comparative analysis of two state of the art traceability data management systems: a federated system for parts traceability; and a distributed system for distributi...

The Food & Drug Administration has begun requiring that electronic submissions of regulated clinical studies utilize the Clinical Data Information Standards Consortium data standards. Within regulated clinical research, traceability is a requirement and indicates that the analysis results can be traced back to the original source data. Current solutions for clinical research data traceability a...

Traceability of software artifacts, from requirements to design and through implementation and quality assurance, has long been promoted by the research and expert practitioner communities. However, evidence indicates that, with the exception of those operating in the safety critical domain, few software companies choose to implement traceability processes, in the most part due to cost and comp...

[Context & motivation] Traceability of software engineering artifacts is important in software development. Tools are used to establish traceability between software engineering artifacts. [Problem] One of the open traceability challenges is the traceability-configuration during usage. At any time within a project, the traceability information model (TIM) should be adaptable to changing context...

Data-driven manufacturing in Industry 4.0 demands digital metrology not only to drive the in-process quality assurance of manufactured products but also supply reliable data constantly adjust process parameters for zero-defect processes. Better quality, improved productivity, and increased flexibility processes are obtained by combining intelligent production systems advanced information techno...

The study on food safety traceability system in China started from 2002. During the study and implementation, some related standards and guides have been gradually made, many traceable foods and traceable enterprises were created and a series of traceability subsystems were developed. This paper introduces the importance of food safety traceability system construction, the present construction ...

Traceability is an important concern in projects that span different engineering domains. In such projects, traceability can be used across the engineering lifecycle and therefore is multi-domain, involving heterogeneous models. We introduce the concept and challenges of multidomain traceability and explain how it can be used to support traceability scenarios. We describe how to build a multi-d...

Even though traceability is legally required in most safety critical software applications and is a recognized component of many software process improvement initiatives, organizations continue to struggle to implement it in a cost-effective manner. This panel addresses the problems and challenges of requirements traceability and asks questions such as “How much traceability is enough?” and “Wh...