The ecosystem theme
DiSC-Ecosystem explores a digital sustainable supply chain ecosystem based on the Smart Factory Web reference architecture. The original home page describes connected manufacturing capabilities, smart onboarding, semantic integration, knowledge bases, and sustainability information. These themes connect the new editorial pages to the existing website.
From architecture to operating decisions
A connected network becomes useful when participants can understand capabilities, exchange appropriate evidence, and make defensible decisions. The articles examine those practical questions: what a product record describes, how a supplier claim is verified, what a capacity offer means, and how information is updated across organizational boundaries.
Website editorial team & approach
New articles use the byline “DiSC Website Editorial Team” to identify this website’s editorial collection. It is a collective publishing attribution, not a claim of a named expert’s credentials, a staffed research institute, or an endorsement by an external organization. The collection was prepared with AI assistance and source review.
We link primary material from the organizations responsible for the relevant guidance, specifications, or research. We distinguish published facts from original analysis. Operational scenarios and numerical examples are identified as illustrative; we do not present them as factory interviews, site visits, or measured deployment results. Each article includes a methodology note, limitations, and publication and update dates.
How evidence is used
A source can establish the content of a specification or the context of a research activity without proving a commercial result. Research prototypes are identified as research. Illustrative arithmetic explains a measure rather than claiming a benchmark. Readers should consult the current source for product-specific, legal, engineering, or operational decisions.
Original project context
The Fraunhofer IOSB Smart Factory Web page provides primary context for the reference architecture. The original publishing and data protection links remain in the website footer. New editorial articles are not presented as official publications of the organizations cited.
Website archive
The original post archive preserves earlier website material, including the February 2024 introductory post and its original author archive. The original sample page is retained for historical completeness.
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Published 27 October 2026 · Updated 27 October 2026