  Recently, there has been growing interest in the field of cloud manufacturing
(CM) amongst researchers in the manufacturing community. Cloud manufacturing is
a customer-driven manufacturing model that was inspired by cloud computing, and
its major objective was to provide ubiquitous on-demand access to services.
However, the current CM architecture suffers from problems that are associated
with a centralized based industrial network framework and third part operation.
In a nutshell, centralized networking has had issues with flexibility,
efficiency, availability, and security. Therefore, this paper aims to tackle
these problems by introducing an ongoing project to a decentralized network
architecture for cloud manufacturing which is based on the blockchain
technology. In essence, this research paper introduces the blockchain
technology as a decentralized peer to peer network for multiple cloud
manufacturing providers.
