公开(公告)号：US20190340269A1

公开(公告)日：2019-11-07

申请号：US16110046

申请日：2018-08-23

Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Tim S. Biernat ,  Juergen K. Weinhofer ,  Sharath Chander Reddy Baddam ,  Douglas J. Reichard ,  Subbian Govindaraj

IPC: G06F17/30

Abstract: Blockchain-enabled industrial devices and associated systems are configured to support the use of industrial blockchains in connection with product and machine tracking, subscription-based industrial services, device lifecycle management, and other functions. Collections of industrial devices can collectively serve as an industrial blockchain system, with multiple such systems within a supply chain yielding an industrial blockchain ecosystem. This architecture can create distributed, decentralized, tamper-proof records of manufacturing statistics for a product, a product's history within the larger supply chain, industrial asset usage histories that can be leveraged in connection with lifecycle management, machine usage history for use in connection with subscription-based machine operation, and other such information. The blockchain-enabled industrial devices can be configured to generate multiple versions of a product or machine's blockchain having respective different access permissions, allowing public and private industrial data to be segregated between public and private industrial blockchains.