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Adding It All Up: GE Shareowners Get A Tour Of Industry’s 3D-Printed Future
From a nearby highway, the low, gray box of GE Additive’s Customer Experience Center in Pittsburgh doesn’t look any different from new factories dotting suburban landscapes in America. But step inside...
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The French Connection: Digital Twins From Paris Will Protect Wind Turbines...
In the heart of Paris, a short walk from the city’s storied opera, GE engineers are busy coding software that will allow them to create “digital twins” of machines. These virtual representations of the...
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Spring Cleaning: How The World Is Scrubbing Coal Power Plants Of Toxic Gas
Walk down a street in a city where people are still using coal to heat their homes and cook their dinner and you will understand why people around the world are clamoring to clean up coal-fired power...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A skull-drilling robot, concrete that’s stronger than steel and contact lenses that could help preserve diabetic patients’ vision. Open your eyes to the wonders of science. From The Factory Floor To...
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The 3D-Printed Age: Why This Futuristic Ohio Factory Is Proving Mark Twain Wrong
Mark Twain allegedly claimed that when the end of the world came, he wanted to be in Cincinnati “because it’s always 20 years behind the times.” The quip is funny, but his strategy to ride out...
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Heart To Heart: Two Innovators Reveal What’s Next For 3D-Printing In Healthcare
Jimmie Beacham, who runs GE Healthcare’s Advanced Manufacturing Lab in Waukesha, Wisconsin, received an unusual request a year ago. One of his colleagues asked him whether he could 3D print his heart....
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The Metal Head: How A High School Dropout Built A Pioneering 3D Printing...
Frank Herzog was still in elementary school in the historic Bavarian city of Bamberg when he fell in love — with metals. So ardent was his passion that he later quit high school to pursue it. “I was...
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Ship Shapes: New 3D Printing Research Aims To Rejuvenate Navy Gear
When a warship breaks down, the Navy needs to get it running again right away. A new GE Global Research program is developing ways to scan and 3D-print replacement parts out of metal melted with...
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Reality Check: These Advanced Industrial Techs Are Helping 3D Printing...
As machine parts become progressively more complex because of new manufacturing technologies like 3D printing, their operators need new ways to check on their quality. So, many engineering companies...
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Just Press Print: GE’s 3D Printing Summit Explores Additive Manufacturing’s...
There was something unusual about a bicycle parked near the entrance to GE’s first Industry in 3D summit, which took place Thursday in New York’s historic West Village neighborhood. Developed by the...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A robot in Singapore assembled an IKEA chair, new MRI sensors can peer deep inside the brain, and noise-canceling tech for windows can cut street noise by half. A nice try, but this week’s science will...
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Insight Zone: New Software Takes The 3D Printing Of Human Organs To A New...
Like thousands of people every year, a man at West Kendall Baptist Hospital in Miami was recently diagnosed with heart disease. But unlike most patients, he benefited from doctors having access to an...
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Fleet Feat: Dozens More GE-Powered Dreamliners Set To Enter Commission
Qantas’ Kangaroo Route between the U.K. and Australia traditionally required a stop in Dubai. But that changed March 24 with the launch of a new route from Perth to London. The 9,000-mile flight made...
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Ready, Set, Match: Digital Solution Shortens Wait Time For Kidney Transplants
Eleven years ago, Jan and Garet Hil’s 10-year-old daughter experienced sudden kidney failure. When no immediate family members proved to have compatible kidneys they could donate, the Hils had to enter...
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Power Play: For These Two Moms, Job-Sharing Was The Ultimate Career Move
When Bobbi Eldrid and Lynda Kaufman discovered they were both expecting their first children, they began chatting about an age-old struggle. “We were asking ourselves, ‘How do you balance being a mom...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Researchers in Berkeley are working on a way to implant and erase sensations in the brain with a holographic laser, engineers in Canada plan to use “spooky action at a distance” to sniff out planes and...
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Please Touch: 3D Printed Anatomy Can Make Surgery A Hands-On Experience For...
About three years ago, Dr. Beth Ripley had a patient in denial. Though Ripley and several other radiologists identified a tumor growing on the woman’s kidney, she refused to believe it — mainly because...
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Good Pill Hunting: How Biotech Fell In Love With Beantown
Boston has a long history of medical breakthroughs going all the way back to Onesimus, an African slave who introduced Cotton Mather to inoculation during a smallpox epidemic in 1721. This was seven...
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The Waiting Game: With US Patent No. 10 Million Coming Soon, This GE...
One way for an inventor to feature prominently in the history books is to be an Edison, a Pasteur or a Tesla. Another is to hope your patent lands on a big, round number. (Of course, you can also try...
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Forensic Files: GE’s “CSI” Team On The Case To Enable Trace DNA Analysis
Located deep within GE’s Global Research Center in Niskayuna, New York, the lab looks like a set for a “CSI” episode. Inside, four scientists — a photochemist, two molecular biologists and a biochemist...
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