the Levi Strauss wants to improve its production line and make it safer. The fashion company is testing in some of its production sites, a Blockchain platform. Also ConsenSys.
By Patrick Pehl
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To better documentation and thus, Monitorability of the production chain, tested the American fashion brand Levi Strauss, a company’s internal Blockchain. The help she gets from the US University of Harvard. Dr. Eileen McNeely, the Director of the research Institute Chan’s Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise, said: „In the last 25 years, supply chains have been monitored mainly through Audits.“ A new solution is to be found in a distributed System like the Blockchain. The advantage is that there is a seamless and non-forgeable control back to the origin of production.
Levi wants to use the System first as a test. The fashion group chose three factories in Mexico, where a total of around 5,000 employees. The test operation is to be expanded in the coming year, and on the basis of the Blockchain annual reports to the production safety of create. The Institute of the Harvard University has developed an Index, with the help of Levi Strauss, the tamper-proof reports to create.
ConsenSys is in the same boat
Joseph Lubis company ConsenSys for the technical implementation of responsible. The company is closely affiliated with Ethereum (ETH).
for ConsenSys this order will be important. In the past year read heard that the company considered in the meantime to lay off up to 60 percent of its employees. In fact, the company will be discharged but only about ten percent of its employees. Support staff and technician were both affected. In the Blockchain, the economy is a lot of hope, in order to optimize processes in line with the industry 4.0 and to improve.
