Collecting and utilizing product life-cycle data is both difficult and expensive for products that move between different industrial settings at various points of the product life-cycle. Product-centric approaches that present effective solutions in tightly integrated environments have been problematic to deploy across multiple industries and over longer timespans. Addressing deployment costs, incentives, and governance, this paper explores a blockchain-based approach for the deployment of product-centric information systems. Through explorative design science and systematic combining, the deployment of a permissionless blockchain system for collecting product life-cycle data is conceptualized, demonstrated, and evaluated by experts. The purpose of the blockchain-based solution is to manage product data interactions, to maintain an accurate single state of product information, and to provide an economic incentive structure for the provision and the deployment of the solution. The evaluation by knowledgeable researchers and practitioners identifies the aspects limiting blockchain-based deployment of solutions in the current industrial landscape. Combining theory and practice, the paper lays the foundation for a blockchain-based approach to product information management, placing design priority on inter-industrial and self-sustained deployment.

对于在产品生命周期各个点之间在不同工业环境之间移动的产品，收集和利用产品生命周期数据既困难又昂贵。在紧密集成的环境中提供有效解决方案的以产品为中心的方法在跨多个行业和更长的时间跨度部署方面一直存在问题。针对部署成本，激励措施和治理，本文探索了一种基于区块链的方法来部署以产品为中心的信息系统。通过探索性的设计科学和系统的结合，专家将概念化，演示和评估用于收集产品生命周期数据的无许可区块链系统的部署。基于区块链的解决方案的目的是管理产品数据交互，保持准确的产品信息状态，并为提供和部署解决方案提供经济的激励结构。由知识丰富的研究人员和从业人员进行的评估确定了在当前工业环境中限制基于区块链的解决方案部署的方面。结合理论和实践，本文为基于区块链的产品信息管理方法奠定了基础，将设计优先级放在了行业间和自我维持的部署上。