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The Future of Work

Leaner Than Lean: How Digitalization Transforms Manufacturing

Randy Stearns
May 12, 2017
If you want to see the future of manufacturing, follow the Tama River about 45 kilometers upstream from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport to the GE Healthcare facility in Hino, Japan. Inside this outwardly conventional, low-rise suburban business complex is emerging the blueprint for the future of manufacturing, tweak by painstaking tweak.
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The Future of Work

GE Healthcare's 3D Printing Incubator Is Liberating Engineers (And Much More)

Tomas Kellner
May 10, 2017
Hailing from the Outer Banks, a long, sandy necklace of islands hanging from North Carolina’s Atlantic coast, Jimmie Beacham knows something about witnessing history. When his grandfather, John, was a small boy, he watched one of the Wright brothers’ first attempts at flight in nearby Kitty Hawk, a feat that ultimately ended up changing how we live. Now Beacham himself is in the vanguard of a revolution, one that is changing how we design and make things. It’s called additive manufacturing, which includes technologies like 3D printing.
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The Future of Work

In The Digital Age, Employees Can Be Your Best Recruiters Or Worst Critics

John Wilson Ceo Wilsonhcg
May 03, 2017
Said Scott: “I think that helped reinforce for them that girls can excel as much as they’re allowed to.”
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The Future of Work

The Future Of Manufacturing: Global Is Local

Philippe Cochet Svp Chief Productivity Officer GE
March 30, 2017

Let’s change the way we talk about manufacturing.

Too often, the discussion is about how old-line industry is struggling to survive in a world of bold new tech. In reality, digital and additive technologies are transforming manufacturing and growing productivity.

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The Future of Work

School’s In: GE’s New "Brilliant Learning" Program Will Train Workers For Jobs Of The Future

Tomas Kellner
March 30, 2017
Jesse Schrimpf didn’t study additive manufacturing in school. But when a 3D printer showed up at his plant in Waukesha, Wisconsin, the GE Healthcare engineer decided to give the machine a whirl.
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Robotics

Ready For Take Off: UPS Is Testing Residential Delivery By Drone

Mark Wallace
March 20, 2017

UPS’ latest drone test, which successfully delivered a package from the roof of a company truck, shows that the gap between vision and reality is closing. "There’s definitely a lot to learn and plenty of reason for excitement about drones," says Mark Wallace, UPS Senior Vice President of Global Engineering and Sustainability.

 

 
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The Future of Work

Better Watch Out! This Italian 3D Printing Workshop Is Taking A Leaf From Saint Nicholas

March 09, 2017

Every December, pilgrims from all over the world descend on the southern Italian seaport city of Bari to celebrate Saint Nicholas and visit the Basilica di San Nicola. The church is the final resting place of the famous saint known by millions of children for, among other things, his magical workshop staffed with elves who can make pretty much anything.

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The Future of Work

Ignore At Your Own Risk: 3 Ways To Build Innovation Into Your Business

Craig Arnold
February 21, 2017

Do your company's leaders actually define what "innovation" means for them? Exploring the gap between aspiration and accomplishment is the difference between businesses that innovate successfully and those that don't, writes Craig Arnold, vice president of sales for UPS Europe.


 


Everyone can innovate. But innovative thought by itself is incomplete.
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The Future of Work

What Would The World Look Like If Companies Really Looked Like The World?

Vic Abate Chief Technology Officer GE
February 08, 2017

A balanced workforce is a business imperative, and today, the digital industrial revolution raises the stakes even higher. "In my 25 years working for GE, I have learned that the best business outcomes are achieved with diverse teams that understand the end customer," GE's Chief Technology Officer Vic Abate writes.


 
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Engineering The Future: GE’s Goal To Bridge The STEM Gender Gap By 2020

February 08, 2017

GE today announced goals of having 20,000 women to fill STEM roles at GE by 2020 and obtaining 50:50 representation for all our technical entry-level programs.

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