Achieve business outcomes that matter
Measure, manage, and operationalize your sustainability goals – including decarbonization, energy resources management, and reduced WAGES.
Achieve operations visibility and AI-based optimization, linking plant-floor actions to your enterprise sustainability initiatives.
A system of record to automate accurate GHG data collection, provide valuable insights, and identify ways to reduce carbon emissions
One modular solution to connect, see, control, and optimize DERs from a technical and an economic standpoint
Reduced operational costs and risks using Digital Twins, machine learning and predictive models
Increased network reliability
Advanced analytics to predict future asset and process performance for reduced variability and improved operations
Optimized asset performance to reduce risk and improve safety, reliability, compliance, and efficiency
Optimize assets and processes – from plant-level operations to the enterprise – with self-service process analytics software.
Minimized potential impact of anomalies
Comprehensive visibility of asset health for rapid situational adjustments with quality information
Streamlined mechanical integrity solution to reduce risk, maintain compliance and optimize resources
Develop, implement, maintain, and optimize asset strategies to effectively balance cost and risk
Operational visibility and analysis to reduce asset failures, control costs and increase availability
Performance Intelligence with APM Reliability is your partner in meeting your plant and fleet performance goals.
Predictive analytics software, helps prevent equipment downtime by detecting, diagnosing, forecasting & preventing emerging failures.
The AI-powered product automatically explores the space of operation of gas turbines, builds a machine learning model, and continuously finds the optimal flame temperatures and fuel splits to minimize emissions
BoilerOpt works within existing plant technology to improve boiler productivity and air-fuel ratios in a closed-loop system
Pre-built templates for equipment health monitoring, asset strategies, and process workflows
Operator rounds efficiency and operational impact
Secure and scalable data connectivity, analytics, and application services
End-to-end digital solutions reducing costs, empowering crews, and improving the passenger experience
Addressing fuel usage, carbon emissions, airspace efficiency, predictive maintenance, and more
Increased fuel efficiency and reduced waste
Early detection of aircraft and component degradation
Reduced costs related to disruptions
Visualizations and analytics to help airline decision makers identify waste in an airspace
Fuel efficiency reports, helping airlines operate at peak safety and efficiency while reducing their carbon footprint
Operational excellence and improved safety
Outcomes that move your business forward in fuel, safety, and predictive maintenance
Analysis of multiple flights, routes, and assets across years
Reduced environmental footprint
Services and solutions to reduce vulnerability and identify, detect, prevent and protect
Turnkey solutions to reduce vulnerability and identify, detect, prevent and protect assets and systems
A globally recognized benchmark for procurement of OT secure products.
Strengthened device security across the development lifecycle
Informed decision making with data and insights from across the enterprise
Native cloud service for a data historian.
Safe and secure management and orchestration of the distribution grid
Network-level optimization with high-performing distribution power applications
Overcome foreseeable load variations
Minimized disruption of service even in extreme weather conditions
Effective management and orchestration to unlock the power of renewables and DERs
AI/ML energy market recommendations to improve profit for renewables and thermal generation assets
Increased output and energy production at times of highest demand
A common network view to ensure electrical integrity, network validity and infrastructure management
Accurately model your asset network, support traceability, help assure data completeness, & support integrity management
End-to-end network connectivity modeling and data workflow management
Software designed to help grid operators orchestrate the grid
Increased efficiency and reduced costs
Secure-by-design connectivity and certification management, and faster operator response
Faster operator response and increased efficiency
Centralized visualization and configuration, digitized processes and intelligence
Full visualization and control seamlessly across devices, including phones, tablets and desktops
Best practices and proven deployment learnings
In-depth understanding of how GE Digital software can help your operations
Holistic performance management for today’s connected enterprise
Management of fast-moving processes as well as slower moving, labor-intensive jobs
Cost savings with improved manufacturing overall equipment effectiveness
Batch automation, regardless of the underlying equipment
Data analysis for quick identification of defects and better optimization of processes
Unified manufacturing data from disparate systems to better meet changing consumer demands
Procedures managed in an electronic format for consistency and predictability
Optimized production with better planning
Improved throughput with greater efficiency and lower costs
Materials to help you better understand GE Digital software and its robust functionality
Integrated solutions for improved efficiency and sustainability while supporting business growth
Mobile operator access to essential on-site HMI monitoring and control functions
Enable remote staffing, flexible resourcing and centralized monitoring across facilities
Boost worker productivity, automate tasks, keep safety first
Energy management for the zero carbon grid
Reliable mobilization of network assets to ensure maximum transmission of energy from multiple sources
Integrated solutions suite for energy market management
Decentralized data collection, data volume handling, and remote management
Getting the most benefit out of digitization and industrial IoT
Services that deliver best-in-class results
Rapid digital transformation wins based on industry-proven value cases and ROI
Best practices for your industrial processes to help build and maintain operational resilience
GE Digital’s expert service and support teams create value and deliver on business objectives
Expert service and support teams to maximize the benefits from your IIoT software
Improved efficiencies, optimized production and quality and reduced unplanned downtime
Increased reliability and availability, minimized costs, and reduced operational risks
Increased value from your equipment, process data, and business models
Facilitate documentation between airlines and lessors
Reduced costs related to disruptions with real-time visibility
The cornerstone of your journey to operational excellence
Operational excellence including improved reliability, reduced costs and managed risk
GridOS, the first grid software portfolio designed for grid orchestration
Reduced operational costs and risks using predictive models
Enhanced overall situational awareness
Field-connected operations and management
One modular solution that enables grid operators to connect, see, control, and optimize DERs from a technical and an economic standpoint
Operational efficiency and reduction in build costs while meeting regulatory regulations
Reduced operational and new build costs and improved field inspection productivity
A holistic picture of the grid, reducing cost and complexity from traditional inspection approaches
Optimized operations to best meet changing consumer needs
Reduced variability and improved operations.
In-depth understanding of our software and its functionality
A clear a path to operational transformation
Maintain consistent quality and reduce cost per ton
Optimized costs and improved reliability while reducing risk to keep your teams and communities safe
Streamlined end-to-end operations driving high-volume, high-quality production
GE Digital software is the backbone of modern plant operations
Improved reliability, increased availability, and reduced O&M costs
AI/ML to make your gas turbine's fuel and air controls smarter
Increase energy production at times of highest demand without costly maintenance adders or adversely impacting the maintenance interval
Operate from anywhere with secure remote/mobile operator controls
Inclusive outsourcing services that deliver best-in-class results
Achieve digital transformation
Expert service teams to maximize the benefits from your IIoT software
Reduced costs, lower risk, and faster response times
Analytics to predict future asset and process performance for reduced variability & improved operations
A common network view to ensure integrity, network validity and infrastructure management
Mission critical software to better operate, optimize and analyze your work to deliver results
Locate the best partners to meet your needs
Digital transformation acceleration
Technical and domain expertise that complements GE Digital’s industry leading applications
Assistance to accelerate your digital transformation and put your industrial data to work
Deep domain knowledge and technical expertise
Product training, industry education, and rigorous certification programs
More efficient and secure electric grid, greater sustainability and waste reduction
Solutions for today, scale for tomorrow
Increased reliability and reduced reactive maintenance leading to higher efficiency and reduced costs
Using Digital Twin blueprints, GE's Industrial Managed Services team monitors 7,000+ global assets
Understanding of the latest thought leadership that can be applied to your operations
Understand how our software and services help our customers solve today's toughest challenges
Experienced team dedicated to customer success
Success stories and product updates from the world of Electrification Software
Analyst and third-party expert opinions of Electrification Software and our software and services
White papers, product overviews, and other content to help you put your industrial data to work
Experience in leading edge software development and business working with best-in-class leaders
Understand how Electrification software and services helps our customers solve today's toughest challenges
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In some way or another we have all been impacted by the increasingly frequent extreme weather events hitting our planet. Addressing this reality needs an immediate and comprehensive action. The question is how do we do it. Can we make sense of decades of information and turn those insights into actions that will alleviate the extreme pressure our planet is under?
Let’s take the evolution of our electric grid as an example and the immense challenges it has experienced during decades of energy expansion and usage, while managing the increasing demands of an electrified society. Today, we often see the grid as a simple thing. By the flip of a switch, we turn on the lights in our homes and offices, charge our cellphones, operate machinery at our factories, and transport ourselves and our products from place to place using electric vehicles. But all of these activities have put increasing strain on a system that was built decades ago and that today, more than ever, is threatened by two major challenges:
1. Climate change is increasing the frequency and magnitude of severe weather events
From 1980-2020, the US sustained 285 severe weather events, resulting in 354 deaths and cumulative financial losses exceeding 1.875 trillion USD. From 2016-2020, the losses amounted to 600 billion USD, roughly 1/3 of the total losses over the 40 years.* As we continue the critical acceleration of the Energy Transition, we need to strategically balance the intermittency of renewable generation sources like wind and solar (estimated to provide 24% of the world’s electricity in 2030 and around 62% by 2050**) and its dependency on weather conditions, which makes them highly vulnerable to extreme weather events.
2. Aging infrastructure is increasingly vulnerable to forced outages
Aging grid infrastructure, such as transmission lines that were installed in the 1950s and 1960s with a 50-year life expectancy, were not designed to operate under such extreme weather events and, at present they are already way past their designed lifetime, thus becoming even more prone to outages during severe weather conditions.*** As per one of the previous reports from the US Department of Energy, power outages cost American businesses around 150 billion USD per year.
What can be done to improve Reliability and Resiliency of the future Transmission Grid?
With the transmission grid becoming increasingly vulnerable to severe weather events, the potential impact of large-scale outages on our society could be catastrophic. Operators today are gradually getting into the unchartered territories of managing the grid under such extreme conditions. On the other hand, they may not even have enough time to manually come up with viable plans to mitigate emergency situations and then execute them to operate the grid in a stable and reliable manner.
For years GE Digital has pioneered Asset Level Digital Twins, and as a natural progression we have now developed a Network Digital Twin to significantly enhance the transmission grid reliability and resiliency in a cost-effective manner during emergency operations. GE’s Smart Transmission Outage & Restoration Manager (STORM) is that next-generation Network Digital Twin.
STORM has a suite of diverse cross-domain models and multi-disciplinary software applications to holistically and scientifically consider both non-power and power system factors to provide:
STORM harnesses the combined power of data-driven intelligence and physics-driven intelligence to adapt to fast changing situations. Its adaptability, speed, accuracy, and precision of dynamic planning and execution can significantly help grid operators minimize risks to public safety during emergency events, while still ensuring that grid stability is maintained all throughout, with minimum loss of power to consumers.
STORM includes Transmission Outage & Restoration Planner (TORP), a data analytics application, along with Real Time Shutdown & Restoration Manager (RTSRM), a control room Advanced Energy Management System (AEMS) application. RTSRM has been successfully used in pilot-phase testing for emergency grid operations management during two wildfire seasons in California (2019 & 2020). It is now running in production, offering GE Digital customers automated decision support during such extreme weather-driven emergency grid events.
The challenges of the Energy Transition are more complex than ever before. This critical transformation cannot be done with the technologies and grids of the past, and humans alone can’t solve this problem. This is where digital innovation and technology can help accelerate this transition by complementing human knowledge and skills. Digital technologies, like our software, are playing a pivotal role in creating a highly reliable and resilient energy system of the future.
*NOAA Climate.gov Data: NCEI & Climate Central
**DNV-GL Report, “Energy Transition Outlook 2020 – A global and regional forecast to 2050”, published in eto.dnv.com, 2020.
***The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, GE Digital
As GE Digital’s Chief Technology Officer, Colin Parris leads teams that work to leverage technologies and capabilities across GE to accelerate business impact and create scale advantage for digital transformation. He also champions strategic innovations and identifies and evaluates new, breakthrough technologies and capabilities to accelerate innovative solutions to solve emerging customer problems. Colin created and leads the Digital Twin Initiative across GE.
Apply advanced analytics and machine learning to help reduce operational costs and risks.
Digital twins are a key piece of the digital transformation puzzle. They create an accurate virtual replica of physical objects, assets, and systems to boost productivity, streamline operations and increase profits.
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