Blockchain-Based Cloud Manufacturing: Decentralization

TL;DR

This paper proposes a decentralized blockchain-based network architecture for cloud manufacturing to address issues of centralization, enhancing flexibility, security, and availability in manufacturing services.

Contribution

It introduces a novel blockchain-based peer-to-peer network model for cloud manufacturing providers, improving upon centralized architectures.

Findings

Enhanced security and decentralization in cloud manufacturing networks

Improved flexibility and availability of manufacturing services

Potential for increased trust among providers and clients

Abstract

Recently, there has been growing interest in the field of cloud manufacturing (CM) amongst researchers in the manufacturing community. Cloud manufacturing is a customer-driven manufacturing model that was inspired by cloud computing, and its major objective was to provide ubiquitous on-demand access to services. However, the current CM architecture suffers from problems that are associated with a centralized based industrial network framework and third part operation. In a nutshell, centralized networking has had issues with flexibility, efficiency, availability, and security. Therefore, this paper aims to tackle these problems by introducing an ongoing project to a decentralized network architecture for cloud manufacturing which is based on the blockchain technology. In essence, this research paper introduces the blockchain technology as a decentralized peer to peer network for multiple cloud manufacturing providers.