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The blockchain technology has been increasingly applied in industrial use-cases in recent years. Although the food industry fits in particular with the requirements for blockchain applications, since the actors barely know each other and trust plays a crucial role, it is not widely established in the food industry. There are efforts to increase transparency and enable traceability in food supply chains by applying blockchain technology to share data in a trustworthy way across companies and to ensure food quality standards. This technology can be further used to enable the identification of inconsistencies in sensor data and more efficient handling of food recalls across the food supply chain. The success of a new technology depends to a large extent on its acceptance by companies and their employees. This paper deals with the acceptance of such a blockchain application and presents a systematic literature review to summarize the methods and results of acceptance analyses of the blockchain technology in food supply chain s. Particular attention has been devoted to traceability. For this objective, research is analysed based on scientific methods and the results are systematically analysed.
One of the major challenges for the use of the Blockchain technology in industrial applications is th elack of existing standards. They ensure the interoperability of sensors, machines and the data-sharing between stakeholders within a food supply chain. Existing Blockchain-independent implementations of technologies for increasing transparency in supply chains use communication standards whose transferability to Blockchain applications has not yet been analysed sufficiently.
A large number of product-accompanying services in the machinery and plant engineering industry is based on the cross-company exchange of data and information. By providing services, additional sales potential on the manufacturer side as well as far-reaching product and process advantages for appliers can be reached. However, the necessary cross-company exchange of information is nowadays limited due to a lack of trust in the interacting partner and the applicable existing technologies, which results in significant losses in the terms of business potential. The uncovering of this potential now seems to be made possible by the use of the Blockchain technology. Through the key factors security, immutability, transparency and decentralisation, it serves as an enabler for cross-company communication and product-accompanying services. The technological implementation of a Blockchain can take on a broad spectrum of attributes, which can lead to decisive restrictions for the execution of services. This justifies the necessity for a qualified and context-related assessment of service-types-individual specifications and the resulting requirements on the system. Within the scope of this paper, different types of product-accompanying services are identified and analysed regarding their requirements for a Blockchain-based machinery and plant connection. This can serve as a basis for a qualified and goal-oriented configuration of the Blockchain.