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Let’s Get Connected: GE Digital Chief Bill Ruh Talks About Intelligent Machines and Our Optimized Future

Philip Trippenbach
September 25, 2015
Bill Ruh believes in intelligent machines as an emerging reality, not a distant sci-fi concept. “I’m looking forward to a future where the power never goes out, where the water is always clean, where airplanes always run on time, and where the health care industry is working to its full capacity,” he says. “Connected, intelligent machines can get us there.”
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Industrial Internet

Breaking New Ground: Digital Twin Helps Engineers Design Megawatt-Sized Circuit Breakers

September 23, 2015
We’ve all stood in the dark at least once after getting tripped up by power-hungry appliances. Typically, the remedy is just steps away: a quick flip of the circuit breaker switch, and you’re back in business.
It’s a simple fix, but it involves complex physics. “Circuit breakers protect our homes from electricity overload,” says Tim Ford, senior product manager for industrial circuit breakers at GE’s Industrial Solutions business. “This sounds easy, but the amount of energy they are often called on to dissipate is like grabbing the flywheel of a running car and stopping it.”
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GE to Deploy the First Industrial-Strength Cloud For Machine Data

August 05, 2015
If everything goes according to plan, there will be 50 billion devices connected to the Internet by 2020, throwing off terabytes of data every day. This huge digital menagerie will include everything from consumer gadgets like Apple Watches and Nest thermostats to jet engines and entire power plants.
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This Software Can Take the Heat: Stanford Spinoff is Helping GE Develop Tomorrow’s Turbines

June 20, 2015
She’s a massive beast that can generate up to 600 megawatts of electricity in a combined cycle power plant, the equivalent power that would be needed to supply approximately 600,000 U.S. homes. To do so efficiently, however, this latest GE gas turbine, officially called 9HA but nicknamed Harriet by GE workers, must withstand temperatures greater than 2,600 degrees Fahrenheit.
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When Hardware Met Software: The “Killer Advantage”

May 20, 2015
From Amazon to Zynga, many companies glean powerful business insights from slicing, sorting and analyzing data. But GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt says it is the combination of big iron and big data that gives his company “a killer competitive advantage.”
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Das Hybrid-Kraftwerk: Power Plant Mixing Gas, Solar, Batteries and Software Could Chart the Future of Renewable Power

May 13, 2015
From Japan’s offshore solar plants to a tidal lagoon in Wales, countries around the world have found clever ways to tap renewable power. But nowhere is the need for ingenuity more in demand than in Germany, which aims to produce 80 percent of electricity from renewables by 2050, up from 30 percent now.
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The Next Big (or Really, Really Tiny) Thing in 3D Printing

GE Look Ahead
December 23, 2014

How to print blood vessels. And apartment buildings

A wedding ring holding a piece of moon rock. Hydroponic garden structures tailored to any shape desired. Jet engine fuel nozzles. An Aston Martin template: These are but a few examples on the growing roster of 3D-printed structures that steadily made tech headlines over the past 18 months.
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GE Partners With SoftBank in First Predix Licensing Deal

December 10, 2014
The machines are talking, and the conversation is getting bigger and more complex. That’s why last October, GE said it would open to developers its new software platform for the Industrial Internet, called Predix. Today, the Japanese telecom giant and the country’s third largest mobile carrier, SoftBank Telecom, said it would take a license to build Predix apps for shipping, manufacturing and other industries.
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Keep Calm and Carry On: This Software Helps Hold Ships Steady in Heavy Seas

October 29, 2014

One of the many characters in Melville’s Moby Dick is Bulkington, an intrepid sailor for whom “land seemed scorching to his feet” and who on a “shivering winter’s night” thrust the mighty ship Pequod’s “vindictive bows into the cold malicious waves,” as it set out on its fatal whale hunting expedition.

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Amit Narayan: How Data Will Power the Future of Energy

Dr Amit Narayan Autogrid Inc
October 16, 2014
Throughout history, we’ve equated energy with the consumption of natural resources such as oil, natural gas or coal.
 

In the coming decades we will start to think of data and software as a source of energy.

What do I mean by that? Software won’t generate electrons, but it will let us leverage the electricity we are already generating in a more efficient and productive way.
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