Digital Reference – A Semantic Web for Semiconductor Manufacturing and Supply Chains Containing Semiconductors

Within the public-private ECSEL Joint Undertaking, the project Productive4.0 aims for improvements with regard to digitalization for electronic components like semiconductors and systems as key enabling technologies. The semiconductor industry has a high growth potential within the frame of digitalization as manufactured products are intensively used in production and B2B environment. Thus, Supply chains employing and fabricating semiconductors become the core driver and beneficent of digitalization. In order to exploit digitalization potentials, Semantic Web technologies are used to create a digital twin for semiconductor supply chains and supply chains containing semiconductors. Exemplary benefits of this lingua franca which can be understood by humans and machines alike for various applications like simulation, deep learning, security, trust, and automation are shown in this paper.