Disruptive Technologies: Semantic Web
... For manufacturers, taking advantage of these technologies would bring significant -- even disruptive -- competitive advantages including better integrated and less costly supply chains as well as more seamless engineering, production and distribution processes.
Key to all of this is the Semantic Web, whose technological underpinnings have been in development since the mid 1990s when commercial Internet applications were still a gleam in the eyes of many business people...
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