Blockchain-Based Solution for Product Recall Management in the Automotive Supply Chain

Abstract

Product recall management in the automotive industry is a challenging problem that affects human lives and the safe operation of automobiles. Product recalls can assist in removing potentially unsafe products from the marketplace and minimizing a company's responsibility for corporate negligence. Today's systems and technologies leveraged for product recall management in the automotive supply chain fall short in providing transparency, traceability, reliability, audit, security, and trust features. In this paper, we propose a blockchain-based approach to overcome the aforementioned problems related to product recall management. We employ the public Ethereum blockchain and integrate it with the decentralized storage of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) to deal with the large-sized data problem. We present the system design and six algorithms explaining the working principles, information exchange flow, and stakeholders' detail and their sequential interactions. We discuss the implementation details, generalization aspects, and cost and security analyses to evaluate the performance of the proposed approach. The proposed solution is cost-effective, secure, and enables automakers to have end-to-end visibility of information during product recalls. We make the smart contracts' code publicly available on GitHub.

Blockchain-Based Traceability System for Product Recall

“…Receiving method (Event ID) (0, 4, "EPC0"); event ID=0, status=Shipping (4, 5, "EPC0"); event ID=1, status=Shipping (0, 4, "EPC1"); event ID=2, status=Shipping (1, 5, "EPC2"); event ID=3, status=Shipping (4, 7, "EPC1"); event ID=4, status=Shipping (5, 7, "EPC0"); event ID=5, status=Shipping (1, 4, "EPC3"); event ID=6, status=Shipping (5, 8, "EPC2"); event ID=7, status=Shipping (2, 4, "EPC4"); event ID=8, status=Shipping (3, 6, "EPC5"); event ID=9, status=Shipping (6, 8, "EPC5"); event ID=10, status=Shipping (6, 9, "EPC5"); event ID=11, status=Shipping (8, 12, "EPC5"); event ID=12, status=Shipping (7, 11, "EPC0"); event ID=13, status=Shipping (1, 5, "EPC3"); event ID=14, status=Shipping (5, 8, "EPC3"); event ID=15, status=Shipping (8, 12, "EPC3"); event ID=16, status=Shipping (0); status=Accepting (1); status=Accepting (2); status=Accepting (3); status=Accepting (4); status=Accepting (5); status=Accepting (6); status=Accepting (7); status=Accepting (8); status=Accepting (9); status=Accepting (10); status=Accepting (11); status=Accepting (12); status=Accepting (13); status=Accepting (14); status=Accepting (15); status=Accepting (16); status=Accepting…”

“…The double-layer framework can improve the scalability of blockchain-based systems and effectively mitigate performance bottlenecks and prevent data leakage caused by the existing single-blockchain and single-layer frameworks. [11] proposed a blockchainbased approach of the product recall management in automotive supply chains. This approach can employ either the public or private blockchain.…”

“…The scheme can improve the scalability of blockchain-based systems and effectively mitigate performance bottlenecks and prevent data leakage. Additionally, [11] proposed a blockchain-based approach to overcome product recall management in automotive supply chains. The proposed solution is costeffective and enables automakers to achieve end-to-end visibility of information during product recalls.…”

Smart Automotive Diagnostic and Performance Analysis Using Blockchain Technology

“…This system is depicted in Figure 6. Another issue was raised due to the leakage of data, as discussed in [32]. It was shown how the recall process happens and how to report an issue to the OEM.…”

Blockchain Based Academic Letter of Recommendation System Model

“…Böylelikle ağı daha güvenli ve değiştirilmeye karşı korumalı hale getirmektedir [11]. Son yıllarda finanstan eğitime, enerjiden sağlığa ve dijital kimlikten tarıma birçok farklı sektörde kendisine uygulama alanı bulan bir teknoloji haline gelmiştir [12]. Mevcut merkezi otoritenin dışında ve aracısız olarak katılımcıların güvenli bir şekilde işlem kaydını dağıtık olarak tutabilen, değiştirilemez ve dağıtık bir altyapı sunmaktadır [13].…”