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Marco Annunziata: The Industrial App Economy Is Ready for Its Download
The industrial app economy will spur innovation by enabling a more seamless environment for people and machines to work smarter and more efficiently together. We live in a world of apps. They have...
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Every Electron Gets a Byte: Digital Power Plant Makes Electricity Smart
Like an industrial cathedral, a power plant can be a placed filled with a special kind of serenity. Walk into the pump room that feeds high-pressure steam into turbines that make electricity and you...
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Get Your Software Kicks on Predix: GE Opens the World’s First Industrial App...
Consumers think nothing of tapping the screen of their smartphone to instantly stream “Can’t Feel My Face” by The Weeknd, track an exercise and diet regimen, or download Candy Crush. But there’s no app...
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No Screw Left Unexamined: This Digital Test Bed Can Track the Lives of Machines
New machines may not have souls, but they do have lives. Tracking them is the idea behind the Industrial Digital Thread Testbed. This mouthful of a name hides a clear goal: give each machine and even...
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The Road to ecoROTR: How Building a Better Wind Turbine Began With an Online...
By Zack LordScientists at GE Global Research spent the last four years building a more efficient wind turbine. The result rises 450-feet above the Mojave desert in California – almost half the height...
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Found: This Old GE Comic Book Tells the Whole Incredible Story of the Birth...
GE didn’t invent the jet engine, but it built the first one in America during World War II. It was no accident. The company had been making turbines for power plants and superchargers for propeller...
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It’s BASIC: Arnold Spielberg and the Birth of Personal Computing
From Thomas Edison to former President Ronald Reagan and novelist Kurt Vonnegut, GE has employed a number of luminaries over the course of its 123-year history. One famous last name that’s been missing...
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‘Digital Twin’ Technology Changed Formula 1 and Online Ads. Planes, Trains...
When did shopping online become more like driving a 200-mile-per-hour racecar? Quite recently, thanks to something called “digital twin” technology. Now it’s going to change railroads, airlines,...
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Rep. Bill Shuster: How to Keep American Aviation Competitive
Let’s pass legislation to modernize the U.S. aviation system by doing what our competitors have already done — separate air traffic control operations from the safety regulator. The United States is...
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GE Capital Nears $100 Billion in Asset Sales As GE Transforms
GE Capital has signed nearly $95 billion in deals to reduce its size as of the end of the third quarter, the company reported on Wednesday. The news comes less than six months after Jeff Immelt told...
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GE: A Simpler, More Valuable Digital Industrial Company
Today, Trian Partners announced a $2.5 billion investment in GE. Read Jeff Immelt’s statement on the investment.The investment underscores GE’s focus on improving margins and returns, reducing costs...
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Beautiful on the Inside: These Machines Reveal the Secrets of the Body
If a good picture is worth a thousand words, then these images are visual equivalent of War and Peace. GE imaging technology – from MRI machines to high-resolution microscopes – offers incredibly...
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How Big Data and the Industrial Internet Can Help Southwest Save $100 Million...
Map out one million flight plans each year for Southwest Airlines. Everything from planeloads of chilly Chicagoans heading for vacations in Cancun to budget-minded businesspeople dashing from Los...
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Video: Minds + Machines: Software is Eating the World and GE Feels Fine
GE held its fourth annual Minds + Machines conference in San Francisco last week. The big themes included opening Predix, the company’s software platform for the Industrial Internet, to outside...
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Satyen Sangani: We Are in the Dark Age of Data. It’s Time to Evolve
Data is only as good as the insights we can gain from it. We need to boost data literacy.For those of us who champion the power of data, the past five years have been an incredible ride thanks to the...
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Go with Current: GE’s New Energy Business Changes the Power Game
GE announced today the creation of Current, a startup that combines energy hardware with a digital backbone to make power simpler and more efficient for customers.The company, which is backed by GE’s...
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High-Altitude Science Reveals Secrets of Glowing Plasma
There’s a lot of science happening in the bowels of the International Space Station 249 miles overhead. Astronauts are chowing down on experimental salads grown from LEDs and hydroponics. Silkworms are...
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The Heat Is On: How New Horizons Got Its Power
Feature by feature, they revealed themselves: the plains of Sputnik, the Norgay Montes and the vast and forbidding Cthulu Regio.When the New Horizons spacecraft finally buzzed Pluto at roughly 30,000...
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Upload Your Engines: GE’s First Chief Digital Officer...
Silicon Valley veteran Ganesh Bell believes in the power of software so much that he decided to join one of the world’s largest industrial companies. “After two decades in the software business and...
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David Schwartz: Big Data Demands Big Security
Devising strategies to protect Big Data is as important as analyzing the information. Big data is becoming an increasingly important part of the business plan for companies in many different...
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