Storage of information on manufactured products using "communicating materials"

The amount of data output into our environ- ment is increasing each day, and the development of new technologies constantly redefines how we interact with this information. It is therefore necessary to control the different ways information is diffused. As a result, a data dissemination methodology in the framework of the Supply Chain Manage- ment is introduced. A specific stage of the methodology is detailed in this paper which aims at storing directly on the product, relevant data to the subsequent users. To do so, a new type of product is presented referred to as "communicat- ing material".