Applicability of Blockchain Technology in Scheduling Resources Within Distributed Manufacturing

Lohmer, Jacob

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-29821-0_7

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“…Several concepts in the literature ( Gourisetti et al, 2019 ; Lohmer, 2019 ) and industry projects ( Parity, 2019 ; POA Network, 2019 ) use permissioned blockchains with PoA consensus. Transactions can contain daily free capacities, the prices of production services of respective participants for all collaborating companies, and the current as well as finished production orders.…”

Section: Theoretical Analysis Of the Impact Of Blockchain Technology mentioning

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Analysis of resilience strategies and ripple effect in blockchain-coordinated supply chains: An agent-based simulation study

Lohmer

Bugert

Lasch

2020

International Journal of Production Economics

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Resilience enables supply chains to reduce their proneness to disruptions and recover faster. Many existing strategies to strengthen the resilience of supply chains are facilitated by the use of digital technology. Blockchain, as one of the promising innovative technologies, enables a transparent, secure, and timely data exchange and automation via smart contracts. In this paper, we discuss the impact of blockchain technology on supply chain risk management and, in particular, on supply chain resilience. We identify potential risk-related blockchain application scenarios and examine their impact on the existing resilience strategies. We explore the impact of the most promising applications with respect to resilience by using an agent-based simulation model of a complex supply network affected by disruptions. The theoretical analysis reveals a promotion of supply chain resilience strategies, especially if smart contracts are used for risk-related collaboration. The simulation study indicates an increase in resilience if the underlying collaboration is based on time-efficient processes: The propagation of disruptions, the network recovery time, and total costs can be substantially reduced. However, depending on the duration of the disruption, negative effects can occur if process efficiency is insufficient. From our investigations, we derive insights for managers who are interested in practical implementation.

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Analysis of resilience strategies and ripple effect in blockchain-coordinated supply chains: An agent-based simulation study

Lohmer

Bugert

Lasch

2020

International Journal of Production Economics

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131

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“…Recent studies have outlined and reported the positive impact of BCT in OM and many industries such as manufacturing, logistics and airline (Cole et al, 2019;Lohmer, 2019). This impact is further boosted by the digital transformation, Industry 4.0 and Intelligent Internet of things (IIoT) trends in the industry.…”

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Blockchain technology adoption for managing risks in operations and supply chain management: evidence from the UK

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The impact of blockchain technology (BCT) implementation on the accuracy, reliability, visibility, incorruptibility, and timeliness of supply-chain processes and transactions, makes it attractive to improve the robustness, transparency, accountability and decision-making in risk management. Therefore, the emerging BCT can present an invaluable opportunity for the organisations in need of preparing for and responding to uncertain and complex instances. The adoption of BCT in the operations and supply chain management (OSCM) literature remains scarcely investigated, especially in the context of managing risks in emergency situations such as crises, disasters, and pandemics, which are characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) in the business environment. This article will contribute to the OSCM literature by developing a conceptual model that will examine the causal relationships between VUCA business environment, constructs derived from technology acceptance model (TAM), resilience and behavioural intention of the operations managers to adopt BCT for risk management. The model was tested by gathering responses from 116 operations managers in the UK (during COVID-19 pandemic) through structural equation modelling. Findings from the analysis suggest that understanding the benefits of BCT, involvement in resilient organisational practices and user-friendly implementation of the technology will have a significant and positive influence on the intention to adopt BCT for risk management in the OSCM context. Building upon these findings, we have proposed a BCT decision framework to assess the feasibility and suitability of adopting BCT in each context (such as risk management), which will have strategic implications for operations managers and the OSCM community.

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“…Multiple firms participate in this partnership to take benefit from pooled manufacturing. In [32] a resource scheduler is utilized to assign production to a physical machine after determining whether its capacity is satisfied by available resources. This entire procedure is automated via a smart contract.…”

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Message Scheduling in Blockchain Based IoT Environment With Additional Fog Broker Layer

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Recently researchers and companies have shown significant interest in merging blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT) to create a safe, reliable, and resilient communication platform. However, determining the proper role of blockchain in existing IoT contexts with minimum implications is a challenge. This work suggests a message schedule for a blockchain-based architecture with two access-level setting filters for incoming messages: critical and non-critical. The proposed work of the researchers divides the fog layer into two parts: action clusters and blockchain fog clusters. Similar to the three-layered IoT architecture, the action cluster and the main cloud data center work together for critical message requests. The blockchain fog cluster is dedicated to only the blockchain application's requirements. In the fog layer, a fog broker is used to schedule critical and non-critical messages in the action and blockchain fog clusters, respectively. The proposed technique is compared to the existing Dual Fog-IoT architecture. The solution is also tested for fog and cloud computing resource utilization. The findings demonstrate that this architecture is feasible for varying percentages of receiving critical and non-critical messages. In addition to the inherent benefits of blockchain, the suggested paradigm reduces the system loss rate and offloads the cloud data center with minimal changes to the existing IoT ecosystem.INDEX TERMS Internet of Things (IoT), Message Scheduling, Wireless Sensor Networks, Fog Computing.

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Applicability of Blockchain Technology in Scheduling Resources Within Distributed Manufacturing

Cited by 14 publications

References 28 publications

Analysis of resilience strategies and ripple effect in blockchain-coordinated supply chains: An agent-based simulation study

Analysis of resilience strategies and ripple effect in blockchain-coordinated supply chains: An agent-based simulation study

Blockchain technology adoption for managing risks in operations and supply chain management: evidence from the UK

Message Scheduling in Blockchain Based IoT Environment With Additional Fog Broker Layer

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