Semantically Coordinated Semiconductor Supply Chains
The semiconductor industry is characterised by complex supply chain structures. A common language and structure
has to be developed and enrolled to enable smooth collaboration among different supply chain participants in this B2B (business to business) environment.
SC³ relies on enabling a collaboration of industrial as well as academic stakeholders to ensure interoperability among
semiconductor companies, and further industrial domains. SC³ implements an industrial reference platform as a de-facto standard (frequently used). This framework acts as a key enabler for realising an agile development - validation -
refinement loop of a top-level ontology i.e. Digital Reference (DR).
DR comprises a combination of different ontologies of semiconductor supply chains and supply chains containing
semiconductors. To that end, the framework will support ontology governance e.g. development, archiving and
indexing as well as the validation of high quality and interlinked ontologies and taxonomies.
SC³ will incrementally add domain knowledge to the DR; the extended version of DR covers semiconductor domain
vocabulary and related sub domains. The platform allows the involvement of all stakeholder groups in a customised
fashion and proposes iterative engaging approaches for each community. The DR allows modularly including,
developing and extending domain knowledge to provide a connected supply network structure.
The project will follow a deliberate piloting methodology in order to deliver the demonstrators needed as proof-of concept and for evaluation of project’s measurable objectives. SC³ activities will have a strong focus on sustainability
and uptake of the project results, this includes on the one hand to keep the established community alive and on the
other hand that the semiconductor data documentation, (i.e. the Generic Semiconductor Data Model) will be further
developed and maintained even after the project duration.
