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Hackathon heaven—driving efficiencies on an industrial scale

November 06, 2015
Enter the new digital-industrial hothouse, where the blast-furnace of ideas and the phenomenal pace of collaborative coding will blow your mind as it produces viable software products faster than you can say digital-industrial revolution.
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A little Ecomagination goes a long way

October 30, 2015
What could some of the world’s biggest companies achieve by working in concert to improve water and energy efficiency? GE predicts that collectively, organisations such as BHP Billiton, Intel, Goldman Sachs and Walmart, because of the size and reach of their business influence, could drive immediate action. So much so that by 2020 we could see a doubling in resource productivity, a threefold growth in industrial desalination and water reuse, and a massive increase in renewable-energy generation relative to other sources.
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Turning natural gas into liquid assets

October 27, 2015
Picture this: you are sailing, perhaps cruising, the Pacific waters between Japan and northern Australia, and over the horizon comes a 37,000-tonne structure, bigger than a shopping mall with a few levels of carpark, and crowned by a 105-metre flare boom (a third of an Eiffel Tower), leaning off to one side. Ahoy!
That was the topside of Chevron Wheatstone’s natural gas platform on its two-week journey from the construction yards of South Korea to the Pilbara coast, off Western Australia.
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Talking about our innovation

October 26, 2015
When GE’s global CEO and chairman Jeff Immelt comes to town, checking in on GE’s customers and operations, everyone makes the most of it.
At a lunch for 200 of WA’s top executives, from marketers, miners and media magnates—including Wesfarmers chief executive Richard Goyder, Seven West Media chairman Kerry Stokes, Shell Australia chair Andrew Smith, and GE Australia, NZ and PNG chief executive and president Geoff Culbert, and regional director of Oil & Gas. Mary Hackett—Jeff Immelt was making the most of it, too.
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The innovation platform: GE’s amazing locomotives

October 23, 2015
Australia’s newest iron-ore mine Roy Hill is getting ready to bid farewell to its first shipment from Port Hedland, Australia’s busiest mineral export port in the far north west of Western Australia. The mine’s ‘first ore on ship’ milestone will happen in the next few weeks, the culmination of decades of dreaming, planning and building.
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Engineering: “The best ever career”

October 20, 2015
Today she’s wearing an elegantly tailored, vividly coloured suit, but you can easily imagine Mary Hackett as a teenager, riding her bicycle into wind and stinging rain along winding Irish roads, to get to the home of her maths tutor. The girl wasn’t pedalling like a demon two or three times a week because she’d been told she had to succeed in maths, but because she wanted to get into engineering.
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All aboard Australia’s coolest laboratory

October 09, 2015
When she’s in her pretty-as-a-picture home port of Hobart, the research vessel Investigator, with her bright blue-white-and-green livery, poses a pleasing juxtaposition between old mariners and cutting-edge marine science; her three giant radar bulbs are silhouetted against the sky, high above the rigging of tall ships berthed nearby in Constitution Dock.
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Loco love: Sensing innovation coming down the tracks

September 24, 2015
“Beast strike” doesn’t happen all that often as kilometres-long iron-ore trains snake their way from mine to port in Western Australia’s searing Pilbara heat, but it’s something you don’t forget quickly if you’re in the cabin at the time.
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What does the Industrial Internet mean to you?

September 23, 2015
The Industrial Internet can feel unfathomable, partly because so much of the action is taking place offscreen—beyond your view. The very nature of machine-to-machine communications is that humans frequently don’t need to do anything.
Computer programs sift machine-performance data in real time for patterns and anomalies, and embedded algorithms in the software determine what the computer will tell the machine to do next.
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Super ultrasound helps doctors win the vein game

September 18, 2015
Anyone who’s ever endured a multi-attempt poking session in order to donate blood or have a blood test may well recall the faint-inducing frustration as the phlebotomist’s needle rummaged about for a suitable vein. That’s nothing compared to tiny babies who are about to undergo cardiac surgery, or who need an IV line for medication, or chronic patients of all ages who will require insertion of PICC lines and mid-lines over a lifetime of medical care.
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