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A smart retrofit for the CSG industry that steps on the gas

May 19, 2015
The lightbulb moment came on Valentine’s Day 2015. “I remember it—it was a special day of my life,” deadpans Ahmed Ibrahim, strategy and growth leader with GE Australian and New Zealand’s Measurement and Control division. The issue on the table: the growing coal-seam gas industry in Australia, and the valves involved in controlling its distribution, all in turn controlled by positioners.
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If we could talk to the inanimates … just imagine it!

May 06, 2015
Listen. The machines are talking. And as they communicate with each other (given we’re the ones who’ve designed the Industrial Internet for useful eavesdropping), we tune in and discover innumerable opportunities to improve they way they can work for us. David Parkinson, Regional IT Leader at GE Australia & New Zealand Oil & Gas, is something of a Dr Dolittle with these talking machines—he knows how to learn from their conversations. He explains how we we can engage in this data dialogue, and why we must.
GEreports: What’s the machine conversation starter?
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Clever Country Code: 5 coding solutions paying it forward

May 06, 2015
Do you speak #BinaryCode? Join the conversation as machines communicate in their native tongue at Tweeting Machines and on Twitter: #GE0101
Talk, talk, talk. Computers are becoming increasingly interactive, communicating with each other and with us. Here are five disparate projects, all local examples of how code contributes. Talk about brilliant.
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How to build a giant: GE starts up massive mobile power plant for Chevron’s big gas project

April 29, 2015
Five hundred years ago, Michelangelo fashioned David from marble cut out of the mountains towering over the Tuscan town of Carrara. Today, however, the area’s craftsmen are in the business of making Goliaths.
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Heart attack or indigestion? Fast-tracking finding out

April 29, 2015
The National Heart Foundation's 2015 Heart Week is less about promoting awareness of heart-attack warning signs and more about the risks of general slothfulness in this multi-screen-tethered age. All the same, as the campaign encourages people to focus on their tickers, it's possible that even more of them will be showing up in a hospital emergency department with chest pain, a presenting symptom that tends to put patients fairly high on the triage list.
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Mapping the PTSD brain

April 22, 2015
In 2015, Australia and New Zealand commemorate 100 years since the beginning of WWI’s Gallipoli, a campaign famous for its heroism and infamous both for its terrible death toll and the horrific conditions on the battlefield. Despite generations of war veterans having suffered—often in silence—intense post-war psychological disturbance, and the associated depression, alcoholism, violence and suicide, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was not formally recognised until 1980. It remains a misunderstood, misdiagnosed condition, for which there is no widely effective treatment.
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Future-Proofing Mining

April 15, 2015
Miner problem: billions of dollars invested, lower resource prices, squeezed margins. What would you do? Miners the world over are looking to the future. Yes, they’re streamlining and cutting costs. They’re also centralising knowledge, driving efficiencies in an industry where fractional changes make huge differences across vast operations, and they’re looking for not just new prospects, but the best new prospects. The future for mining is more high-tech and groundbreaking than you’ve ever imagined, and easier on the environment!
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PNG’s powerful new attraction: View the trailer

April 01, 2015
They came to view the trailer. In February this year, hundreds of people travelled from all over the Papua New Guinean city of Lae, to feel the power of GE’s TM2500 trailer-mounted electricity generator. Dignitaries arrived to take part in the commissioning ceremony.
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GE Oil & Gas opens new facility for the INPEX Ichthys LNG project

April 01, 2015

In the beautiful town of Broome, Western Australia, they are expecting some incredible technologies to come visit.  Not the usual tourists, these massive subsea machines will check their bags in at the newly opened GE Oil & Gas subsea facility, before heading 220 km offshore to the INPEX operated Ichthys LNG project.

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Can Australia be the next Silicon Valley?

March 30, 2015
Where do you think Australia sits in the OECD rankings of collaboration on innovation between industry and universities? Hint: it’s not last. Answer: it’s second-last. Australia must move swiftly to get government, industry and universities collaborating more closely than ever to build an innovation economy—our most reliable and sustainable solution to transition from the commodities boom to a new high-value, high-wages economy.
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