GE Fanuc Automation, a division of the GE Infrastructure global business platform, has introduced the new Proficy HMI/SCADA iFIX with FIX Desktop software.
This enables users of FIX software to take advantage of the many advanced database and connectivity features of Proficy iFIX, while continuing to view and control their plant-wide processes in their existing graphics environment.
This is according to Daniel Coetzee, Business Manager Sub-Saharan Africa for the GE Fanuc Automation division.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 2004--The end of October means the close of National Fire Prevention Month, and the time to replace batteries in smoke detectors. And, it's also a good time to look at hot technology for firefighters - who rushed from their stations to fight 1.6 million fires in the United States alone in 2003. Ironically, their speed in helping others can put their own firehouses at risk of danger or result in costly operational overhead at a time when every dollar is needed.
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PORT TALBOT, Wales--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 2004--GE Energy today hosted a visit by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh, to the Baglan Bay Power Station in Port Talbot, Wales, U.K.
Her Majesty officially dedicated the power plant, which was built and is being operated by GE as global showcase for the world's most advanced gas turbinecombined-cycle technology.
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WILMINGTON, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 2004--GE Energy's nuclear business has honored Progress Energy's nuclear power plants in Brunswick, N.C. as two of the world's top sustained generation boiling water reactors (BWRs).
In an Oct. 26 presentation at the 1,800 megawatt Brunswick Nuclear Power Plant, located two miles north of Southport along the Cape Fear River, Andy White, President and CEO of GE's nuclear business, presented plaques to Brunswick Plant Vice President Neil Gannon and several of the site's managers, recognizing the reactors' inclusion on
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FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 26, 2004--General Electric is on track for its previously announced outlook of $1.57-$1.60 in earnings per share (EPS) for 2004 and double-digit EPS growth in 2005, GE Senior Vice President and CFO Keith S. Sherin told investors at a meeting held this morning to review the company's Commercial Finance and Consumer Finance businesses.
The meeting is taking place from 9 a.m. to noon and is being Webcast at www.ge.com/investor.
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DANBURY, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 26, 2004--GE Commercial Finance, the business-to-business financial services unit of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announced today it has reached an agreement to acquire the IT leasing business of Bay4 Capital, LLC -- an independent information technology lessor. The agreement is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2004.
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GE Transportation's Rail division provides a broad portfolio of rail technology solutions and products to help customers around the world optimize the efficiency of their locomotives, improve productivity of their rail operations and decrease operational costs.
Based in Erie, Pennsylvania, GE Transportation's Rail division is very active throughout the African continent, where GE has been present for more than 100 years, having established its first foreign office in what is now South Africa as far back as 1898.
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October 25, 2004 -- EVENDALE, Ohio - Air France Industries, one of Europe's leading airlines MRO Division, is setting up a maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) center for the GP7200 engine, the best-selling powerplant for the Airbus A380.
The center, to be located in Paris, will serve as a repair facility for the Engine Alliance, a 50/50 joint venture between General Electric Company and Pratt & Whitney, which is developing the GP7200 engine. The Air France facility will work as a part of the Engine Alliance MRO network.
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