TY - JOUR
T1 - Blockchain-based ubiquitous manufacturing: Blockchain-based ubiquitous manufacturing:
AU - Vatankhah Barenji, Ali
AU - Li, Zhi
AU - Wang, W. M.
AU - Huang, George Q.
AU - Guerra-Zubiaga, David A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under [2018M630928] and [2018M633008], Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province [2018A0303130035].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2020/4/2
Y1 - 2020/4/2
N2 - With product customisation and emerging business opportunities, small and medium manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) must find ways to collaborate and share competency in a trustable manner to survive a turbulent market. Therefore, service industry turns to the manufacturing industry and SMEs migrate to cloud manufacturing (CM) and ubiquitous manufacturing. However, existing platforms use centralised networking, which suffers from security, scalability and big-data problems. In this paper, we propose a blockchain-based platform as a trustable network to eradicate third-party problems, which can improve the scalability, security and big-data problems for SMEs. Our proposed platform is developed based on a consortium blockchain which provides a peer-to-peer communication network between the end user and the service provider. We improve existing consensus mechanism and communication protocol based on a cyber-physical system (CPS), via an autonomous agent. Firstly, we provide a review of cloud manufacturing, ubiquitous manufacturing and blockchain-based manufacturing approaches by highlighting the main problems. Then, the proposed platform, blockchain ubiquitous manufacturing (BCUM), is explained, based on its architecture, consensus algorithm and CPS, with the help of autonomous agent communication. The proposed platform has been developed for 3D printing companies which are geographically distributed and tested based on network performance and three practical scenarios.
AB - With product customisation and emerging business opportunities, small and medium manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) must find ways to collaborate and share competency in a trustable manner to survive a turbulent market. Therefore, service industry turns to the manufacturing industry and SMEs migrate to cloud manufacturing (CM) and ubiquitous manufacturing. However, existing platforms use centralised networking, which suffers from security, scalability and big-data problems. In this paper, we propose a blockchain-based platform as a trustable network to eradicate third-party problems, which can improve the scalability, security and big-data problems for SMEs. Our proposed platform is developed based on a consortium blockchain which provides a peer-to-peer communication network between the end user and the service provider. We improve existing consensus mechanism and communication protocol based on a cyber-physical system (CPS), via an autonomous agent. Firstly, we provide a review of cloud manufacturing, ubiquitous manufacturing and blockchain-based manufacturing approaches by highlighting the main problems. Then, the proposed platform, blockchain ubiquitous manufacturing (BCUM), is explained, based on its architecture, consensus algorithm and CPS, with the help of autonomous agent communication. The proposed platform has been developed for 3D printing companies which are geographically distributed and tested based on network performance and three practical scenarios.
KW - cloud manufacturing
KW - consensus algorithm
KW - consortium blockchain
KW - cyber-physical system
KW - ubiquitous manufacturing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074690707&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00207543.2019.1680899
DO - 10.1080/00207543.2019.1680899
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85074690707
SN - 0020-7543
VL - 58
SP - 2200
EP - 2221
JO - International Journal of Production Research
JF - International Journal of Production Research
IS - 7
ER -