Data is growing and to secure the correctness and relation among data, the aerospace and defense industry must go for machine readable data. Today the data is available in a digital form by the creator of material certificates. When printing the data on forms, this transformation limits the reading to humans and digitality is lost. The target of the process is to keep the data digital during the transmission to the receivers.
This does not mean full data transparency over all tiers of suppliers. There is only use case specific, limited transparency of your data (i.e. sensitive data as prices, sources, stock, volumes are not used).
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