After the first industrial revolution with the use of steam power and water power, the second revolution with the use of steel and electrical power, the third revolution with the robots used in all parts of the process, today we are living the fourth industrial revolution with the use of data. The robots today can communicate between themselves because of IoT technology (Internet of Things) and the line of products that was composed of parallel separated physical flow and data flow today turns to become a mix of physical and data flow in all directions. During this digital transition phase how blockchain technology invented for cryptocurrency will be part of the solution for the security of industrial data flow. What is the latest solution proposed by higher education and research in France to assist this industrial digital transition?