Master's Thesis Sangeeta Joseph

Component provenance tracing through blockchain-based, trackable data exchange for safety critical industrial supply chains.

Traditional  business  relations  between  members  in  a  supply  chain  context  involvelengthy and error prone processes of communication with little reliability and safety,which result in low trust environments where product and document tampering ishard to avoid.  This is a fatal condition for high risk manufacture industries whereproduct history must be reliable beyond doubt to ensure the end result is to be trusted.In this dissertation we introduce the concepts of blockchain as the best tamper proofnetwork for transactions, we show how such technology could benefit private supplychain scenarios by delivering a transparent data flow from raw material supplier all theway to the end customer while guaranteeing efficient traceability, trust among peersand privacy.