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Blockchains: A Conceptual Assessment from a Product Lifecycle Implementation Perspective

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Product Lifecycle Management Enabling Smart X (PLM 2020)

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PLM systems are heavily distributed collaborative platforms resulting in multiple challenges related to the integrity and reliability of the exchanged information. Such issues are usually difficult to address using traditional software solutions. However, since the introduction of blockchains, such challenges are currently being effectively addressed. On the one hand, traditional PLM systems design philosophy was mainly about centralized proprietary systems that have difficulty to cope with new distributed and open environments imposed by the extensive use of IoT platforms and other Industry 4.0 tools. On the other hand, blockchains address data integrity issues by design, and mitigate some of the trust concerns found in collaborative platforms. Through this paper, we study and evaluate the integration of blockchain technology with PLM systems highlighting the different advantages, challenges, and issues that this integration might induce.

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This publication was made possible by NPRP grant NPRP11S-1227-170135 from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation). The statements made herein are solely the responsibility of the authors.

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  1. Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

    Abdelhak Belhi, Abdelaziz Bouras & Masood Khan Patel

  2. DISP Laboratory, University Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, France

    Abdelhak Belhi

  3. College of Business and Economics, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

    Belaid Aouni

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Belhi, A., Bouras, A., Patel, M.K., Aouni, B. (2020). Blockchains: A Conceptual Assessment from a Product Lifecycle Implementation Perspective. In: Nyffenegger, F., Ríos, J., Rivest, L., Bouras, A. (eds) Product Lifecycle Management Enabling Smart X. PLM 2020. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 594. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62807-9_46

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