Exploring the applicability of blockchain technology to enhance manufacturing supply chains in the composite materials industry

Blockchain Technology and Manufacturing Industry: Real-Time Transparency and Cost Savings

“…They describe the positive effects of blockchain technology on the transparency of a supply chain and the quality of products. Extending this discussion, Mondragon, Mondragon, and Coronado (2018) [22] specifically examine the trade of composite materials in the manufacturing industry using a blockchain platform, emphasizing that the quality of products can be secured through blockchain technology. Tian (2016) [23] designs a method of combining blockchain technology with radio-frequency identification (RFID) to improve the quality of agri-food, focusing on Chinese agri-food markets, which has a complicated and often fraudulent supply chain system.…”

“…Applications of blockchain technology to supply chains are being actively developed. Blockchain technology can be adopted in the supply chains of various industries, such as the manufacturing industry and agri-foods (Abeyratne and Monfared, 2016 [21]; Mondragon, Mondragon, and Coronado, 2018 [22]; Tian, 2016 [23]). Firms seeking to apply blockchain technology to their supply chains expect to enhance their systems through two advantages.…”

Blockchain in construction logistics: state-of-art, constructability, and the advent of a new digital business model in Sweden

“…Such a value can be enhanced by integrating interrelated business aspects of supply chain processes with the introduced blockchain technologies, such as the material and the economic flows. • Insights gained from the particularized blockchainrelated research for supply chains within the manufacturing industry (Kayikci, 2018;Kremer, 2018;Mondragon et al, 2018). While Aloini et al (2012) have noted certain differences between the manufacturing and construction supply chains (namely, dissimilar project complexity, configuration intensity, customer influence, process fragmentation, and stakeholder interconnection), these supply chains depict indeed a certain procedural similarity (Koçtaş & Tek, 2013).…”

“…While Aloini et al (2012) have noted certain differences between the manufacturing and construction supply chains (namely, dissimilar project complexity, configuration intensity, customer influence, process fragmentation, and stakeholder interconnection), these supply chains depict indeed a certain procedural similarity (Koçtaş & Tek, 2013). The discretization of manufacturing supply chains into discernible processes and flows (Mondragon et al, 2018) can correspond to the processes and flows of construction supply chains, and thus be extrapolated accordingly (Koçtaş & Tek, 2013). So, the advances of blockchain implementation in manufacturing, complemented by the research outcomes noted in the previous bullet, can be valuable for blockchain development within construction.…”

A Review on the Application of Blockchain to the Next Generation of Cybersecure Industry 4.0 Smart Factories

“…Similarly, the architecture and the possible optimizations to be performed for creating and deploying blockchain-based IoT applications are detailed in [18]. Other articles focused on the application of blockchain to specific Industry 4.0 technologies like big data [19], to specific industries [20], [21], [22] or important characteristics like energy efficiency [23]. It is also worth mentioning the systematic reviews presented in [24] and [25], which analyze the topics that papers in the literature deal with when proposing the use of blockchain.…”