No More Unplanned Downtime: GE Report Finds Industrial Internet Could Lead to "Profound Transformation" in Way Humans Work, Boost Productivity by $20 Billion
No More Unplanned Downtime: GE Report Finds Industrial Internet Could Lead to "Profound Transformation" in Way Humans Work, Boost Productivity by $20 Billion
A gas turbine service manual can clock in at 1,000 pages, about the length of a small-type version of War & Peace. Crews often haul the tomes from one remote location to another to do maintenance work. They travel on a set timetable and lack real-time information about the condition of the turbines. "If they come too late and failure occurs, unplanned downtime can cascade across the system and affect the economy," says GE Chief Economist Marco Annunziata.
