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Lean Management

Getting Better All The Time: How Lean Management Is Helping Transform GE

Rebecca M. Oliver
Will Palmer
July 27, 2021

In the 1970s, a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology traveled to Japan to figure out why that country’s automakers were delivering cars faster than their competitors in Detroit. Their search led them to Toyota and its Toyota Production System — a set of management principles focused on boosting safety, quality and efficiency, reducing waste and creating more value with fewer resources.

Press Release

Going with the Flow: GE Researchers Successfully Test Subscale 3D Printed Heat Exchanger at Temperatures 400°F Higher than Conventional Devices

June 23, 2021
  • Subscale Demonstration hits key milestone on the Lab’s project with ARPA-E called UPHEAT – Ultra Performance Heat Exchanger enabled by Additive Technology
  • GE scientists using the power of 3D design and printing to break efficiency barriers and reduce carbon emissions in large-scale power generation and flight.
  • Project on track for demonstration of heat exchanger prototype by Q1 2022 that operates at temperatures exceeding 1,650 °F and pressures >3,600 psi

NISKAYUNA, NY – June 23, 2021

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lean

Laser Vision: Lean Management Allowed This GE Team To Supercharge 3D Printing And Slash Production Costs

Alan S. Brown
Tomas Kellner
May 20, 2021

Back in 2017, GE engineers surprised the world when they took what was then the world’s most powerful jet engine and used its technology to turn it into a power plant that could be capable of generating enough electricity for thousands of households. This feat got plenty of attention, but the team was not finished. A new GE team has now turned the machine into yet another example of the power of innovation.

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Innovation

Small Step, Big Impact: A 3D-Printed Part Helps This Military Vet Compete

Kristin Kloberdanz
November 10, 2020

Just about every day, Stevin Creeggan trains for international competition in three sports. Four to six times a week, he hits the gym for 90 minutes. He gets on his bike five to six days a week — 30 minutes each time. His wheelchair basketball team meets three hours a week for practice and a game. Because he’s new to that sport, he’ll spend an additional two to three hours working on his own. In between, he fits in archery practice, learning to shoot with his stronger but nondominant left hand.

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3D Printing

The Need For Speed: Fast 3D-Printing Technology Gets A Boost From A New Partnership

Jay Stowe
November 03, 2020

In the relatively short time that it’s been around, 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, has upended the idea of what engineers can design and produce. Sure, past designers could come up with all kinds of outlandish-looking concepts that could make machines more efficient. But their drawings would often elicit the same response from colleagues tasked with bringing their vision to life: But can you actually make it?

COVID-19

Face Value: How 3D Printing Is Helping To Shield Healthcare Workers On The COVID-19 Frontlines

April 08, 2020
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Sporting and political pundits often argue that attack is the best form of defense but when it comes to the new coronavirus and COVID-19, the disease it causes, the opposite may be true, at least for now. The healthcare workers who are fighting a 24/7 battle against the pandemic desperately need personal protective equipment (PPE) such as gowns, gloves, goggles and masks to shield themselves against the germ.

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3D Printing

Build It Up: 3D Printing To Get Boost From World’s Fastest Computer

Vince Beiser
January 22, 2020
Tennessee’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory made history as part of the Manhattan Project, demonstrating the crucial ability to produce plutonium from uranium in a nuclear reactor. Today ORNL is at the forefront of another potentially world-changing technology involving tiny bits of matter: additive manufacturing.
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additive manufacturing

Prost! In Time For Octoberfest, This Old German Beer Town Is Using 3D-Printed Parts To Brew Up A Storm

October 22, 2019
The beautiful Bavarian town of Bamberg is home to nine breweries, and plenty of beer cellar legends. Take the story of Bamberg’s famous smoke beer, which supposedly was invented by accident when the smoke from a brewery fire billowed through a pile of malt. Rather than disposing of the smoky grain, the thrifty brewer produced an aromatic amber nectar that turned out to be unexpectedly popular in the town’s beer halls.
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3D Printing

Hot Stuff: To Build More Affordable Rocket Engines, NASA Researchers Are Using The Latest 3D Printers — And 1 Ancient Metal

Scott Woolley
August 28, 2019

When Christopher Protz and Paul Gradl first started experimenting with building rocket engine components out of copper, the NASA engineers feared they might be wasting their time. Back in 2014, copper had never been used in 3D printing, and it appeared ill-suited to the technology. For one thing, particles of the shiny metal had a nasty habit of directly reflecting the 3D printers’ laser beams, partially melting the copper while frying some very expensive lasers. Early prototypes, recalls Protz, came out looking like “dark-colored blobs.”

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sports

Slam Dunk: How GE’s Innovations Are Helping Athletes

Liz Wishaw
August 21, 2019
It takes blood, sweat and hours of training to become an elite-level athlete. And GE has found ways to improve athletes’ performance by creating technology that supports their achievements to reach the top. 3D printing, portable ultrasounds, data analysis and partnerships with the NBA are just a small part of that innovation.
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