Scalable framework for blockchain-based Shared Manufacturing

Rožman, Nejc (author), Diaci, Janez (author), Corn, Marko (author)

Shared Manufacturing is a new mode of social manufacturing based on the principles of a sharing economy. This paper presents a scalable framework for blockchain-based Shared Manufacturing that preserves the transparency and immutability characteristics of transaction records, which is critical to building trust between entities in blockchain-based systems. We define a blockchain-based protocol for the service execution according to the design principles of the sharing economy. We present a scalable integration of blockchain technology into the concept of Shared Manufacturing by employing cross-chain solutions. We discuss existing cross chain technologies regarding the requirements of Shared Manufacturing and propose hybrid approach. We compare implementations of the proposed framework on two different blockchain networks: Ethereum public network and Xdai sidechain network. We conduct user-oriented test to explore the performance (cost and time) of the implementations in realistic situations in order to justify the use of the sidechain technology. Results indicate that the implementation on the sidechains provides greater scalability than the implementation on the public blockchain network.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Shared Manufacturing, blockchain, framework, sidechain
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: 14 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 71, art. 102139
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-138456
• UDC: 658.5:005(045)
• ISSN on article: 0736-5845
• DOI: 10.1016/j.rcim.2021.102139
• COBISS.SI-ID: 56724227
• Publication date in RUL: 21.07.2022

ROŽMAN, Nejc, DIACI, Janez and CORN, Marko, 2021, Scalable framework for blockchain-based Shared Manufacturing. Robotics and computer-integrated manufacturing [online]. 2021. Vol. 71,  102139. [Accessed 27 March 2025]. DOI 10.1016/j.rcim.2021.102139. Retrieved from: https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=138456

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Robotics and computer-integrated manufacturing
• Shortened title: Robot. comput.-integr. manuf.
• Publisher: Elsevier
• ISSN: 0736-5845
• COBISS.SI-ID: 26331136

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• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: deljena proizvodnja, tehnologija veriženja blokov, okvir, stranske verige

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Funding programme: Young researchers

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P2-0270
• Name: Proizvodni sistemi, laserske tehnologije in spajanje materialov