With increased Globalisation, Manufacturers across the world are facing ever increasing risks that their products can be substituted into the supply chain for inferior alternatives that haven't been subjected to the same quality standards. Not only does this harm revenues through lost sales, it can damage brand reputation, create huge liability issues and worst of all, risk lives through product failure.

Unlike Consumer Goods, these industrial products are either usually integral components of a finished product that are hard to get to or processed in the production of the final product, meaning authentication of provenance is often incredibly difficult through the usual means. This is especially important when trying to combat warranty fraud.