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Leaner Than Lean: How Digitalization Transforms Manufacturing
If you want to see the future of manufacturing, follow the Tama River about 45 kilometers upstream from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport to the GE Healthcare facility in Hino, Japan. Inside this outwardly...
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It Shoots, It Scores! The FIRST Robotics Competition Inspires the Next...
Coach Doug Wildes knows that no matter how hard you train, sometimes the difference between winning and losing comes down to a toss of the ball. Even when it’s a robot doing the tossing.That was the...
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5 Infographics That Explain One Year Of Blockchain News
There’s a lot happening in the world of blockchain, the sometimes hard-to-grasp disruptive technology. Jess McCuan, content creator-in-chief with Quid, whose software can read millions of news articles...
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Winds Of Change: Offshore Electricity Powers First American Homes On Block...
The small island sits off the coast of Rhode Island between the northeastern tip of New York’s Long Island and Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. There, like the archetypal New Englander, it cuts a...
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The Power Of Data: How Software Is Helping Keep Iceland’s Lights On
There are many reasons to visit Iceland. This former Viking stronghold is now the most peaceful country and home to the happiest and most literate people in the world — one in 10 Icelanders on average...
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The Future Of Travel: New York To Hong Kong In 2050
Everyone knows that the future of transportation involves self-driving cars, and they’re coming to a ride-sharing service near you, possibly sooner than you think. But what other transportation...
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New GE ‘In The Wild’ Shows How The IoT Is Making Smart Trains Smarter
The Internet of Things is already helping people track their health with smart wristbands and reduce their home energy use with connected thermostats. Now, as viewers of GE’s “In the Wild” web video...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists at Georgia Tech have designed collision-proof drones and autonomous mini blimps that can detect “hesitant stares and eager smiles,” their peers at Princeton University have developed a...
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Chips Ahoy: The Port Of LA Is Getting A Digital Makeover
The day after Christmas in 2015, workers at the Port of Los Angeles set a personal record. They unloaded a massive cargo ship called the Benjamin Franklin, the largest ever to land in North America, in...
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Beyond Just Promise, CRISPR Is Delivering In The Lab Today
There’s a revolution happening in biology, and its name is CRISPR.CRISPR (pronounced “crisper”) is a powerful technique for editing DNA. It has received an enormous amount of attention in the...
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To Really Help US Workers, We Should Invest In Robots
America’s manufacturing heyday is gone, and so are millions of jobs, lost to modernization. Despite what Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin might think, the National Bureau of Economic Research and...
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Beyond Bitcoin: Digital Currency Among Many Industrial Applications For...
Ben Beckmann works as the lead scientist in the complex systems engineering lab at GE Global Research in Niskayuna, New York. In 2012, he made a seemingly inconsequential wager: He bet one of his...
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Saudi Arabia And GE Partner On $15 Billion In New Projects
GE announced $15 billion in new agreements with Saudi Arabia on Saturday, including $7 billion in GE technology and solutions. The projects will focus on the kingdom’s power, healthcare, energy and...
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Coming Soon To Airports Near You: Fast Hybrid-Electric Aircraft For Everyone
What if quiet flights from nearby airports could get you places much faster and for less than today ? What if air transit could be as simple as boarding a bus or a train today? Hybrid-to-electric...
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Immelt Updates Investors On GE’s Digital Industrial Strategy
Speaking at an annual gathering of industrial executives, Wall Street analysts and investors Wednesday in Florida, GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt outlined GE’s strategy as a simplified, digital...
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Fit To Print: See Firsthand How GE’s Additive Business Is Changing The Way We...
A few years ago, a team of eight GE Aviation engineers decided to give additive manufacturing a whirl and 3D print a helicopter engine. Using a laser beam to weld together hair-thin layers of a metal...
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2050 Is Today: The Fierce Urgency Of Now For Energy Innovation
The extent to which we support energy innovation today will determine the world our children and grandchildren inherit in 2050. It takes 30 years or more to successfully commercialize and deploy...
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Looking Smart: Augmented Reality Is Seeing Real Results In Industry
Google Glass may have stumbled in the consumer market, but smart glasses have found new life in industry. Workers assembling wind turbines at a GE Renewable Energy factory in Pensacola, Florida, for...
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Catching A Breeze: GE ‘In The Wild’ Reveals How Clean Wind Power Travels...
It’s hard enough to build a wind farm in the middle of the blustery North Sea. To be of any use, engineers must link up the wind turbines with massive transformers tethered to land by miles-long...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Researchers in New York found a way to make “an unlimited supply” of blood in the lab, their peers in Belgium built a “brain-inspired” chip that composed music, and a team in Finland designed a “soft...
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