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3D Printing

Have A Heart: New Software Could 3D Print Organ Replicas On Demand

Tomas Kellner
April 26, 2017
Erica Endicott was pregnant with her son, Kaden, when cardiologists at Phoenix Children’s Heart Center discovered that the left side of the boy’s heart was not growing properly. Kaden, who is healthy now, was treated by a team of doctors in Boston for the life-threatening condition. Following the procedure, they used data from an ultrasound system to create and print 3D models of Kaden’s heart before and after his surgery.
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Renewables

Dam Powerful: These Engineers Are Connecting Hydropower To The Internet

Tomas Kellner
April 20, 2017
There are many large waterways in North America. Then there’s the Saint Lawrence River, whose lumbering current links the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. Montreal, Quebec’s business capital with 1.7 million inhabitants, fits on an island sliced off from the mainland by the waterway and its tributaries. Just west of the city, the river’s surface is so wide it could pass for a sea.
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Energy

The Power Couple: This Battery And Jet Engine Hybrid Will Help California Grab More Renewables

Tomas Kellner
April 17, 2017
On March 23, at exactly 11:19 in the morning, the combined output of California’s copious solar panels and wind farms briefly supplied 49.2 percent of the state’s power demand for the first time. The record was a good omen for America’s most populous state, which is striving to use renewables for half of its electricity consumption by 2030.
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ai

I Machine, You Human: How AI Is Helping GE Build A Powerhouse Of Knowledge

Tomas Kellner
April 13, 2017
Every fall, GE Global Research holds a scientific gathering called the Whitney Symposium highlighting the latest scientific trends. Last year the two-day event explored industrial applications of artificial intelligence. We sat down with Mark Grabb and Achalesh Pandey, two GE scientists looking for ways to apply AI to  jet engines, medical scanners and other machines. "We are starting to see significant performance increases from the combination of deep learning and reinforcement learning, where you have a human in the loop correcting the system," Grabb said.
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Software

Waste Not: This App Just Solved A Manufacturing Riddle Larger Than All The Atoms In The Universe

P D Olson
April 10, 2017
Dirk Uhde isn’t the kind of guy who talks a lot about software. So when a team of data scientists and software developers from GE Digital’s European Foundry met him amid the sparks, grime and welding equipment of the industrial plant he manages in southeastern France, he struggled to follow their technical parlance. When he tried to explain how his machinery worked, they didn’t have an easy time either. Yet it was the most productive meeting he’d had in years, he now says.
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Software

How Blockchain Can Restore Trust In Trade

Jesse Mcwaters
Wolfgang Lehmacher
March 15, 2017

Transparent and efficient, blockchain could lift the lid on international supply chains.

 

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Innovation

5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
March 10, 2017

A man-made power island in the middle of the North Sea that could supply electricity for 80 million people, a robot that could read your mind and spot you noticing it made a mistake, and a DNA-based computer that grows as it computes? Go figure!
 

 

This Is What We Call A Power Island!

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Software

Make It Better: This Industrial-Strength Talent Has A Heart For Helping And A Mind For Building

Samantha Shaddock
March 07, 2017

“Most people probably wouldn’t say this, but I love hospitals,” says Lane Konkel. As a child growing up in Wisconsin, the 26-year-old lean manufacturing engineer would accompany her father, an orthopedic surgeon, to his office. “I’d play around with the little models of the knee and pull on the ligaments or I’d visit patients post surgery. For me, hospitals are connected to a lot of really great memories.”

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power

Crushing Pollution: This Technology And Software Will Make A Huge Coal Power Plant In India Cleaner

March 06, 2017

Locals call Ramagundam the city of energy. The largest power plant in South India standing nearby along the banks of the Godavari River, for example, is capable of generating a whopping 2,600 megawatts of lifeblood electricity. That's enough to power 20 million local homes. The region has been investing in new power stations to meet its mammoth energy needs, but a major effort is also underway to modernize the existing fleet and make it efficient enough to meet the Indian government's ambitious targets to reduce air pollution.

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Software

You Are Entering Another Dimension: New Software Allows Power Plant Engineers To Peer Into The Future

Dorothy Pomerantz
March 01, 2017

A typical power plant is a very large and very complicated network of machines for making electricity that must be kept in good order. It's not an easy task.

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