Blockchain: DXC Technology and Contractus build Industry 4.0 Platform
Pressemitteilung -- April 27, 2018
Böblingen, 27 April 2018. – DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), the world’s leading independent, end-to-end IT services company, today announced that it will present a secure, decentralized Industry 4.0 network based on blockchain technology — developed with Dresden-based blockchain specialist Contractus — at Hannover-Messe-Industrie, the leading trade show for industrial technology.
The new Industry network uses blockchain to help answer concerns raised in the recent DXC Industry 4.0 survey, in which 67 percent of industry managers in Germany assume that Industry 4.0 will create new security risks that their own company cannot assess. Despite this, 62 percent want to use smart factory solutions to participate in automated supply chains together with networked partners.
“The Industry 4.0 platform, which we developed in collaboration with Contractus, offers a secure, decentralized network in which the participating companies can interact flexibly,” says Martin Rainer, manufacturing industry leader, DXC Technology, North and Central Europe.
By way of example: The new ecosystem enables legally compliant interaction between partners (smart contracts), automates the conclusion of contracts, documents the degree to which contracts are fulfilled or serves as a platform for networked production.
“With its international experience and expertise, DXC Technology will provide us with important input for our joint projects, and we are very pleased to successfully continue the cooperation we started last year,” says Contractus co-founder Thomas Müller. “The evan.network serves as the technical basis of our new Industry 4.0 platform. In this way, a secure interaction between people, machine and company is mapped in the network via the blockchain.”
An initial project implementation by DXC Technology, Contractus and other industrial and research partners is efficient, order-related production using additive manufacturing. The project’s aim is to enable partners to share free production resources with each other. Digital ordering — with supplier selection, production and fully automated quality control — can be handled directly between the networked participants, right through to payment.
DXC Technology and Contractus at Hannover Messe 2018
At Hannover Messe 2018, DXC Technology and Contractus present a practical example of smart contracts for the handover of orders between production sites — all based on blockchain technology.
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