A method of controlling manufacturing processes on a decentralized industrial control network, comprising: receiving, by an industrial control computing system, manufacturing instructions for a manufactured product; generating, by the industrial control computing system, a smart contract for deployment on a distributed ledger, wherein the smart contract is based on the manufacturing instructions and comprises an address corresponding to manufacturing equipment on the decentralized industrial control network, wherein the smart contract comprises self-executing business logic and the smart contract coordinates the production of goods using the manufacturing equipment; deploying, by the industrial control computing system, the smart contract onto the distributed ledger; receiving, by an industrial controller (116A-N) associated with the industrial manufacturing equipment, operational instructions based on the smart contract; acquiring a quantity of materials (220, 222) from suppliers (226, 228) based on manufacturing instructions; processing the materials (220, 222) by a converter of the manufacturing equipment based on product parameters supplied in the smart contract; subsequent to an automatic execution of a manufacturing task, transmitting, by the industrial controller (116A-N) associated with the industrial manufacturing equipment, an immutable notification to the distributed ledger regarding the execution of the manufacturing task; and upon completion of each of the plurality of operational requirements, discarding the address corresponding to the industrial manufacturing equipment; and wherein the distributed ledger is a blockchain network and wherein the ledger stores transactional records, and also files comprising a combination of data and executable computer programs, and wherein the blockchain database is provided with a Turing-complete programming language. receiving, by an industrial control computing system, manufacturing instructions for a manufactured product; generating, by the industrial control computing system, a smart contract for deployment on a distributed ledger, wherein the smart contract is based on the manufacturing instructions and comprises an address corresponding to manufacturing equipment on the decentralized industrial control network, wherein the smart contract comprises self-executing business logic and the smart contract coordinates the production of goods using the manufacturing equipment; deploying, by the industrial control computing system, the smart contract onto the distributed ledger; receiving, by an industrial controller (116A-N) associated with the industrial manufacturing equipment, operational instructions based on the smart contract; acquiring a quantity of materials (220, 222) from suppliers (226, 228) based on manufacturing instructions; processing the materials (220, 222) by a converter of the manufacturing equipment based on product parameters supplied in the smart contract; subsequent to an automatic execution of a manufacturing task, transmitting, by the industrial controller (116A-N) associated with the industrial manufacturing equipment, an immutable notification to the distributed ledger regarding the execution of the manufacturing task; and upon completion of each of the plurality of operational requirements, discarding the address corresponding to the industrial manufacturing equipment; and wherein the distributed ledger is a blockchain network and wherein the ledger stores transactional records, and also files comprising a combination of data and executable computer programs, and wherein the blockchain database is provided with a Turing-complete programming language.