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Flight. The next generation.
Equipped with a GEnx engine, the newest addition to the Jetstar fleet features new technologies including carbon fibre composites and cabin pressure systems that are changing the way we fly.
Healthy data: How big data will transform the patient journey
And those footprints, or digital health records, are getting bigger. In doctors’ surgeries, clinics and hospitals, isolated silos of digital data are growing at an increasing rate.
The situation has inspired the healthcare sector to find ways of liberating this information to improve decision-making and the quality patient care.
It’s not designed for the showroom, but kilometres under it.
Some mines use steel cages to transport their workers straight down into the maze of tunnels. Others use steep roads - known as drifts - that descend from the surface. Miners use these portals to travel in a dolly car to reach what is known as the pit floor.
But simply reaching the pit floor of an underground coal mine is only half the journey. Miners still have to make their way to the rock face.
John Rice on the future of GE
That’s a big question for a company like GE, said John G Rice, GE Vice President and the man responsible for the company’s operations outside of the United States market.
Mr Rice said answering the cannibalisation question requires some perspective. If the cheaper machine is simply displacing the larger device, then the inexpensive option may not be a great idea.
When it comes to technology, disruption is good for business
No longer a cost burden, mastering technology has become a necessity to navigating a business landscape which features challenges that simply didn’t exist a few years ago.
Globalisation, fluctuating exchange rates, and huge volumes of data in the hands of consumers is changing key business drivers such as productivity, costs, and collaboration.
“The concept of disruption engenders fear,” said Ben Shields, a Partner at Deloitte Private.
How GE’s Christmas trees withstand the sea
They’re called “Christmas trees,” but unlike their namesakes they’re not green and they’re definitely not alive.
Sitting on the ocean floor off the north west coast of Western Australia, the yellow subsea machines are tasked with controlling the flow of oil and gas from undersea wells.
Their nickname comes from the variety of valves, spools, fittings and hardware that make up each device and in some configurations provide a crude resemblance to a decorated tree.
A very heavy Christmas
The last load of a shipment of 20 Christmas trees, weighing more than 1,600 tonnes in total, is on its way from Aberdeen, Scotland to Chevron’s Gorgon Project in Western Australia.
They are, of course, no ordinary Christmas trees.
Technically known as subsea trees, the 82 tonne, 7-inch full bore machines operate at depths of up to 1,350 metres to manage fluid and gas injections, and monitor and control the flow of production wells.
Tackling the challenges in global energy demand
Holding your breath
A light shining in the fog
Developed by GE, the Contrast Enhance Spectral mammography called SenoBright, is quicker than the standard test and can be completed in under ten minutes. Using iodine to highlight blood vessels produced by cancer cells, SenoBright is able to detect legions more easily than in a standard mammogram.