CA is developing an app that hopes to improve the security of 3D printing and additive manufacturing processes. Encrypted data is stored on a private blockchain, which can be used to verify transmitted designs and blueprints have not been altered, hacked or tampered with. Shane Collins, director additive manufacturing programs for CalRAM, said: "We see the greatest threats to additive manufacturing as cyber-physical hacking and counterfeiting ... the deployment of blockchain can combat both."
Cubichain Technologies is developing an app that hopes to improve the security of 3D printing and additive manufacturing processes. Encrypted data is stored on a private blockchain, which can be used to verify transmitted designs and blueprints have not been altered, hacked or tampered with. Shane Collins, director additive manufacturing programs for CalRAM, said: "We see the greatest threats to additive manufacturing as cyber-physical hacking and counterfeiting ... the deployment of blockchain can combat both."