Distributed ledger technology for decentralization of manufacturing processes

Abstract

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is probably going, in the near future, to disrupt B2B and B2C interactions even more than the advent of the World Wide Web, thanks to the transfer of trust from personal and commercial relationships to computing algorithms. However, a less commonly perceived property of DLT is that of enabler of decentralized computing. In this paper, we explore the use of DLT to innovate Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems.