Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2022

DOI

10.3233/JID-210021

Publication Title

Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science

Volume

26

Issue

2

Pages

103-129

Abstract

Trust is essential in the digital world. It is a critical task to build digital trust for the ongoing digital engineering transformation. Aiming at developing a blockchain-based digital trust mechanism for Cloud Manufacturing or Manufacturing-as-a-Service (MaaS), in this paper, we use the manufacturing of low dead space (LDS) medical syringes through Cloud Manufacturing as a motivating scenario to develop a basic framework. To meet the need of optimally saving COVID-19 vaccine doses to save more lives, the medical device manufacturing community needs to make a swift move to meet the surged need for LDS syringes. Cloud Manufacturing is a form of emerging Digital Manufacturing facilitated with Cloud/Edge Computing, the Internet of Things, and other digital technologies. Cloud manufacturing allows quickly establishing a digital virtual enterprise that pools together various manufacturing resources worldwide to meet the surged needs of products and save cost and time. Trusting the product quality and safety is a significant challenge when using Cloud Manufacturing to manufacture the products. This paper proposes a schema of blockchain-based digital trust mechanisms with examples of using Cloud Manufacturing of medical LDS syringes for the urgent needs of catering COVID-19 vaccination.

Rights

© 2022 – The authors.

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) License.

ORCID

0000-0003-2155-6107 (Huang)

Original Publication Citation

Rane, T., & Huang, J. (2023). Blockchain-based digital trust mechanism: A use case of cloud manufacturing of LDS syringes for COVID-19 vaccination. Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science, 26(2), 103-129. https://doi.org/10.3233/jid-210021

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