A Hyperledger Fabric Channel provides private and confidential communication and represents a blockchain. Transactions are executed on a channel which are stored in the channel’s ledger. Channels are used to hide certain information from specific Organizations.
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Industry Use Cases on Blockchain Technology
Daniel Schönle (Furtwangen University of Applied Science, Germany), Kevin Wallis (Furtwangen University of Applied Science, Germany), Jan Stodt (Furtwangen University of Applied Science, Germany), Christoph Reich (Furtwangen University, Germany), Dominik Welte (Offenburg University of Applied Science, Germany), and Axel Sikora (Offenburg University of Applied Science, Germany)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 29
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6650-3.ch011
Abstract
Digital transformation strengthens the interconnection of companies in order to develop optimized and better customized, cross-company business models. These models require secure, reliable, and traceable evidence and monitoring of contractually agreed information to gain trust between stakeholders. Blockchain technology using smart contracts allows the industry to establish trust and automate cross-company business processes without the risk of losing data control. A typical cross-company industry use case is equipment maintenance. Machine manufacturers and service providers offer maintenance for their machines and tools in order to achieve high availability at low costs. The aim of this chapter is to demonstrate how maintenance use cases are attempted by utilizing hyperledger fabric for building a chain of trust by hardened evidence logging of the maintenance process to achieve legal certainty. Contracts are digitized into smart contracts automating business that increase the security and mitigate the error-proneness of the business processes.