Use Cases

The Problem

The United States National Security relies on the safe transport of mission critical payloads to space by launch vehicles with validated material origin stories. Parts Pedigree Reviews (validating the origin story of critical components) are a slow, tedious, and fallible process.​

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The Solution

Quality Engineers will benefit from standardizing the user experience for pedigree reviews with a contractor agnostic interface. Digitizing the pedigree review process will reduce travel for manual reviews and enable automation of workflows for the reduction of tedious or error-prone tasks. ​

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The How

• Users enter data into PCN's software suite manually or via integration.

• PCN's Provenomics® engine aligns pedigree data to a proprietary framework.

• Pedigree Review findings are logged into the PCN and shared to appropriate stakeholders for resolution.

• Automated workflows track progress, initiate actions and highlight issues for resolution.

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The Benefits

• Integrating data from disparate sources creates a comprehensive, mission level source of truth, which enables efficient validation.

• Automated detection of discrepancies / anomalies allows the user to focus on items that need attention.

• PCN’s FedRAMP cloud environment ensures all data is NIST compliant, and allows users to share with authorized parties only what they need to.

• Extending the expertise of the workforce means that Quality Engineers will be able to support the forecasted launch tempo without increasing headcount.

The Problem

This industry faces significant challenges with counterfeit products, unauthorized refurbishments, and non-franchised distribution channels. These challenges not only result in financial losses but also erode trust among consumers, regulators, and stakeholders in the industry.​

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The Solution

End-to-end transparency and traceability across the supply chain ensures that every product's origin and journey can be verified. This transparency should be backed by a system of evidence supporting company claims and revealing product lifecycle stories.​

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The How

• Integrate with the PCN platform by setting up digital twins for products, suppliers, and distribution channels.

• Collect data at each stage of the supply chain and store in PCN's standardized Universal Data Container.

• Utilize PCN's Full Lifecycle Traceability feature to verify the origin of each product.

• With PCN's Permissioned Distributed Ledger, control who has access to your secure data. 

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The Benefits

• Empowered Consumers can make informed choices

• Reduced risk for Brands

• Ethical and Sustainable Supply Chains

• Operational Excellence

The Problem

Due to an aging population in the United States, our nation’s economy is facing a shortage of healthcare professionals that will increase over the next few decades.

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The Solution

The United States has always used and must continue to use immigration to subsidize its economic growth. This solution requires a more efficient but still secure means of validating individual identities, as well as medical credentials for worker eligibility in key roles in the United States.

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The How

• Mobile digital wallet that contains ID and credentials

• Agents and employees can verify the owner's immigration status easily

• Wallet can contain additional verifiable evidence of education, training and past employment

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The Benefits

• Foreign born healthcare professionals no longer need an intermediary

• Efficiency for DHS employees

• Liability-free efficiency for hiring organizations

The Provenance Chain Network's (PCN) Commercial Trust Protocol (CTP) addresses the complex challenge of proving the provenance of blended commodities, particularly critical minerals essential for U.S. semiconductor manufacturing. The United States currently sources most of these minerals, including silicon, gallium, germanium, arsenic, and graphite, from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). This over-reliance poses a significant national security risk, as flagged by the U.S. Department of Defense, especially amid rising geopolitical tensions, tariffs, and sanctions. While initiatives like the Minerals Security Partnership aim to reduce this dependency, they do not fully guarantee resilient supply chains. A major risk remains: the potential for counterfeit and illegitimately sourced materials to infiltrate supply chains. Blending illicit bulk commodities with legitimate products is a common tactic used to obscure their origins, making it difficult to enforce sanctions and maintain supply chain integrity.

 

To counter this, the CTP proposes the establishment of clear, verifiable standards for disclosing the provenance of bulk commodities. It relies on an immutable digital system to record the origin, custody, consumption, and conversion of these materials. This system ensures that mineral suppliers voluntarily report accurate data about their products, with the necessary incentives to encourage widespread adoption. A standardized data exchange framework is crucial, allowing all parties within the supply chain to participate and maintain transparency.

 

The CTP's benefits are substantial:

• Broad participation across the supply chain, creating a comprehensive map of critical mineral sourcing that highlights bottlenecks and blind spots

• Ease of auditing and sharing data amongst companies at any tier of the supply chain

• Discouraging companies from introducing counterfeit goods or claiming ignorance of their products’ provenance

• Setting a precedent for the protocol’s adoption to other industry sectors that manage blended commodities, including agriculture, chemicals, and oil

• Enhances the overall resilience and security of U.S. supply chains