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Textile and clothing industry is one of the oldest manufacturing industries and is a major contributor in the economic growth of developing countries. However, from past few decades, it has been criticised for its opaque, unsecured and untraceable nature of supply chain. Addressing these challenges, the paper proposes a system approach to introduce an item-centric secured traceability concept to monitor and control manufacturing processes and supply chain activities. In order to implement such secured traceability system, the paper describes the process for manufacturing, encoding and validating an innovative two-factor secured tag based on particle randomness that is printed on the surface of textile. Being micro-sized, the particles are easy to read and validate with pattern recognition. Further, as achieved through an uncontrolled manufacturing process, the randomness is unclonable to produce counterfeit tags. Furthermore, a sequence of experimental analyses has been conducted using various simulated scenarios to verify its applicability. A secured tag can be a low-cost and durable substitute for detachable, unsecured identifiers commercially available in the market.
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This work has been comprehended in the framework of Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Project—Sustainable Management and Design for Textiles (SMDTex), which is financed by the European Commission. The authors would also like to thank Mr. Christian Catel from ENSAIT/GEMTEX, France for his time and help.
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Agrawal, T.K., Koehl, L. & Campagne, C. A secured tag for implementation of traceability in textile and clothing supply chain. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 99, 2563–2577 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-018-2638-x
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