Enabling Technology

In addition, the data to be shared and communicated at various stages in the supply chain depend on what will provide the most overall benefit. These data should include  

However, many of the problems in sharing and using these data and implementing EDI networks are related to difficulties in achieving a critical mass of companies sufficient to generate substantial benefits. 

The key piece of information held on a tag is the electronic product code (EPC, standards for which were developed by the Auto-ID Center). This number plate is unique to each tag. The unique number can then be linked to information about the product to which it is attached, for example about when and where the product was made, where its components came from and shelf life details. Some tags may hold this additional information on board however the intention is that most tags will only hold the EPC and additional information will be stored remotely, on a database linked to the management system. 

Readers tell us what the product is and where it is located in the supply chain. The management system compiles this information and allows us to know how many products are present at that location for each time bucket. This translates into dynamic data that allows us to know rates of consumption, and stock data at a given point in time - together with what needs to be done. One can already envision that such data will enable supply chain planning and control to be transformed. 

Product tagging allows for several interesting applications including  

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The section on chemistry of adhesives evolves from rubber-based adhesives to semi- structural and finally to structural adhesives. Everaerts and Clemens provide a thorough description of chemistry and applications of pressure sensitive adhesives and Kinning and Schneider describe an enabling technology for pressure... 

Stenger DA. and McKenna TM. Enabling Technologies for Cultured Neural Networks. New York Academic Press, 1994. 

Perhaps no technology in human history has radically changed so many disciplines as the introduction of personal computing and the now-ubiquitous presence of the World Wide Web. What the joint application of these enabling technologies allows us to do is to instantaneously and efficiently exchange... 

Advanced performance materials are materials (metals, ceramics, polymers, etc.) whose functional and structural properties impart improved performance to specific products, that is, an enabling technology. 

When the users are not the developers, a major mismatch can result between the material design and the end use. Thus, the developer will have extensive product application development to do, which is both expensive and time-consuming. Initial market potentials can be small, and manufacturing capital costs can be high. Thus, the development of new performance materials as the foundation of a materials business does not look very attractive to materials suppliers. Yet, these enabling technologies are very important to the future development of many basic industries. Some models for the successful development of advanced-performance materials are the following ... 

Stevenson R.L., Fused-silica capillaries The key enabling technology for analytical chemistry, Am. Lab. News, 30(5), 1998. 

Dar, Y.L. (2004) High-throughput experimentation a powerful enabling technology for the chemicals and materials industry. Macromol. Rapid Commun., 25, 34. 

The Bioscience Division supplies reagents, kits and other enabling technologies and products for R D in life science. The majority of the product line is based on microp-orous membrane, ultrafiltration, and chromatographic technologies. 

Extensibility enabling technology that will reduce... 

Do reactive dendrimer modules represent a key enabling technology for synthesizing controlled complexity in the nanoscale region ... 

Hence, catalysis may be considered as an enabling technology for this transition and, for this reason, it is necessary to better understand the limitations and possibilities in this field. We need to define future necessary directions of R D and the needs of fundamental and applied knowledge. In other words, there is the need to develop a roadmap for catalytic processes based on renewable feedstock. This book aims to provide an overview of the current state-of-the-art on which such a research agenda can be based. 

Aylott JW (2003) Optical nanosensors-an enabling technology for intracellular measurements. Analyst 128 309-312... 

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