The new digital manufacturing asset: FeaturePrint ID™

Pick up an automotive powertrain part, an aerospace structural fastener, a circuit board, or a bar of precious metal. Is this item authoritatively known by its manufacturer or by its consumer? Every industry struggles to identify and trace its goods, a deeply consequential issue in a world of autonomous and connected products.

Alitheon's FeaturePrint ID technologies give you a universal identity solution. Through mature machine vision and statistical methods, even the most resistant objects can now be identified over a lifecycle of use.

FeaturePrint™ Algorithms, not alterations

Most of the world’s goods are either untraceable or only known through an identification proxy added to objects. Barcode labels, etchings, seals, exotic materials, and even guarded facilities are variously used to declare the provenance of individual items.

Should an item’s proxy be lost – or never exist – the product is anonymous. Its performance, safety, or economic value is unprovable. In global B2B and B2C commerce, such ID failures cost hundreds of billions of dollars annually due to scrap, recalls, damage, or theft. Customer trust deteriorates with every loss.

Now you can require virtually any physical object to prove its true digital identity - to you, your customers, or your partners. FeaturePrint™ ID represents product surfaces as math formulas, ready for on-demand verification via industrial cameras or simple handheld apps.

TRACING ONE AMONG
MILLIONS WITH CERTAINTY

Starting with a camera step, FeaturePrint algorithms encode any item’s unique traits into a compact dataset typically 10% of the size of the original image. This data transfers easily across site networks and applications. As a pure math model, the FeaturePrint ID contains no product class, image, or user information. This structure ensures every object is both precisely known and automatically protected from tampering.

YOUR PRODUCT

Image Capture

Automated Software Transformation

Surface Analysis

Statistical Mapping

Unique Digital Identity

Math data - 10% of image size

FeaturePrint™ ID

System Integration

FeaturePrint IDs are the data links connecting your business applications to individual products

Built For Industrial Use

Whether you deploy in automated smart factories, decades-old craft lines, or in outdoor service conditions, you can count on traceability software always ready for the job.

Resilient in
real-world
conditions

Alitheon’s core registration and authentication functions are built to accommodate physical and environmental challenges of industrial scenarios. Key application and research topics include:

Verifying obscured, worn, or contaminated products
Maintaining insensitivity to product orientations or rotation
Processing batches of parts and parts in motion
Versioning to support item-level audit histories
Validating multiple components in assembly relationships

Ready for
your smart
platforms

Support your digitalization or Industry 4.0 initiatives by linking your business to the products you make. Alitheon capabilities deploy quickly and fit your cloud and data architectures:

Manufacturing execution systems
Blockchains for aftermarkets
Analytics and intelligent automation
Distributed additive manufacturing
Industrial IoT for production

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The FeaturePrint process allows the system to see an object once, and then verify it as often as needed over its lifetime. For some applications, this might only be long enough to move a part across an assembly hall, for other cases it could be years later when it’s time for warranty service, customer support or recycling.

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Alitheon’s technology identifies parts by their own unique features so that no serial number is needed. The result is a new possibility for identifying parts, arguably better and more reliable than serial numbers.

See your products in an entirely new way

Ready to assess no-touch traceability for your use cases? Alitheon's PREP (Production Readiness Program) offers feasibility tests based on your own send-in samples. With a simple cooperative agreement in place, our Seattle-based lab can help you see your products through the lens of FeaturePrint ID. Alitheon experts can also recommend Alitheon or 3rd-party endpoint options to retrofit your business scenario, giving you a clear deployment model for next steps.

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