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The digital transformation of companies is expected to increase the digital interconnection between different companies to develop optimized, customized, hybrid business models. These cross-company business models require secure, reliable, and traceable logging and monitoring of contractually agreed information sharing between machine tools, operators, and service providers. This paper discusses how the major requirements for building hybrid business models can be tackled by the blockchain for building a chain of trust and smart contracts for digitized contracts. A machine maintenance use case is used to discuss the readiness of smart contracts for the automation of workflows defined in contracts. Furthermore, it is shown that the number of failures is significantly improved by using these contracts and a blockchain.
Machine learning applications, like machine condition monitoring, predictive maintenance, and others, become a state of the art in Industry 4.0. One of many machine learning algorithms are decision trees for the decision-making process. A new approach for creating distributed decision trees, called node based parallelization, is presented. It allows data to be classified through a network of industrial devices. Each industrial device is responsible for a single classification rule. Also, nodes that react incorrectly, for example, due to an attack, are taken into account using a variety of methods to remain the decision-making process correct and robust.