  In recent years, industrial manufacturing has undergone massive technological
changes that embrace digitalization and automation towards the vision of
intelligent manufacturing plants. With the aim of maximizing efficiency and
profitability in production, an important goal is to enable flexible
manufacturing, both, for the customer (desiring more individualized products)
and for the manufacturer (to adjust to market demands).
Manufacturing-as-a-service can support this through manufacturing plants that
are used by different tenants who utilize the machines in the plant, which are
offered by different providers. To enable such pay-per-use business models,
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is a viable option to establish
decentralized trust and traceability. Thus, in this paper, we study potential
DLT technologies for an efficient and intelligent integration of DLT-based
solutions in manufacturing environments. We propose a general framework to
adapt DLT in manufacturing, then we introduce the use case of shared
manufacturing, which we utilize to study the communication and computation
efficiency of selected DLTs in resource-constrained wireless IoT networks.
