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 from suppliers based on manufacturing instructions ; processing the materials 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 from suppliers based on manufacturing instructions ; processing the materials 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. <EOS>