Blockchain: Beyond the hype

Posted on 17 Apr 2019 by Maddy White

The capabilities blockchain could provide to manufacturers are yet to be fully understood, but it is promising a lot: secure supply chains, traceability, advanced IoT security and much more.

Robert Learney delivered the first keynote at Industrial Blockchain Exchange – image courtesy of TM. Blockchain is a method of logging information in blocks, a digital ledger of transactions, agreements and contracts linked in a time-sequenced chain. “Two or three years ago no-one knew about blockchain in the manufacturing sector, now…

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