Abstract
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.
Highlights
Chain transparency and security have emerged as key concerns for various industries
The current study focuses on the secured tags that must be integrated on each textile product during the manufacturing stage before it passes to the retailer and to the customer
For a robust, secured traceability system, the tags should be durable to last until the recycling stage
Summary
Chain transparency and security have emerged as key concerns for various industries. With growing number of ethical issues and increasing counterfeits, it has become a necessity to make the supply chains more secure and transparent [1,2,3]. Textile and clothing (T&C) supply chain is one such example. 50190 Boras, Sweden 4 College of Textile and Clothing Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou, China about their supply chain. Suppliers and other involved actors use unethical means of production and distribution, which have resulted in several catastrophic events in the past. This has distressed the governments and drew their attention towards the sustainability issues in T&C industries [5]
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