Auto Industry: TREAD ACT Compliance Scenario

["Zachary Alexander" <zack2003@ebtdesign.com>]

Situation:
The automotive OEMs (Original Equipment Manufactures) have to spend
billions of dollars each year handling warranty related issues. The US
Congress enacted the TREAD (Transportation Recall Enhancement and
Accountability Documentation) Act which requires substantial additional
data gathering and reporting responsibilities. The warranty data
collected by complying with the TREAD Act is expected to give the
automotive OEMs life saving early warning information before massive
recalls are required. However, the vocabulary used in the warranty data
is not standardized which makes explicit trend analysis difficult. There
are numerous failure codes and they are often incorrectly applied which
further impacts the trending information.  Failure to comply with the
initial reporting requirement carried a fifteen million dollar
($15,000,000) price tag. The cost of future non-compliance is beyond the
scope of this scenario. 

Problem:
How can a Semantic Aware ebXML Registry/Repository be used to reduce the
TREAD Act compliance burden and improve the integrity of trend data?

Semantic Components:
*	The Registry/Repository provides XML schema interoperability
support.
*	The Registry/Repository provides ontology support for
discovering XML schema incompatibilities.
*	The Registry/Repository provides support for mapping from a
non-standard XML schema to a standard XML schema.
* 	The Registry/Repository provides ontology support for capturing
failure code heuristics.
*	The Registry/Repository provides support for capturing and
discovering failure related images.    

Zachary Alexander
The IT Investment Architect 
ebTDesign LLC, (703) 283-4325
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