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New Zealand’s innovation ecosystem

Jane Nicholls
The magical special effects that come out of Wellington’s Weta Digital are fire-breathing, big-screen evidence that New Zealand is a digital-innovation hothouse. And it goes way beyond the movies. Digital Planet 2017, a study by the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Massachusetts, measured the digital evolution of 60 countries, evaluating supply and demand conditions, institutional environment and innovation and change. It ranked New Zealand among the Stand Out nations, classed as having high levels of development and innovation.
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What Keren Rambow will do for Australian aviation

Jessica Power
December 14, 2017
Plane speaking, genuine, formidably qualified, Keren Rambow touched down at GE Aviation in April 2016. Within 18 months as sales director of Commercial Engines and Service Sales in the South Asia Pacific Region, she had orchestrated the ideal suite of engines and services to power growth for Fiji Airways, negotiated a complex engine-support restructure for Qantas and Jetstar, and started an Australian chapter of the International Aviation Women’s Association.
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ESP helps Australia breathe easy

Natalie Filatoff
November 23, 2017
It takes more than an Allen key and a caffeine drip to open 50 shipping containers of some 3,000 flatpacked parts and assemble them into a 350-tonne lung that filters air for Australia.
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Breast-cancer screening breakthrough

Natalie Filatoff
November 22, 2017
As 2017 Breast Cancer Awareness month draws to a close, Sunshine Coast radiologist, Dr Sean O’Connor has one message for women: “Let us find breast cancer before you do — when it’s small and treatable.”
He identifies two aspects of mammography as critical to accurate, early — before you may even feel a lump — detection of breast cancers: medical-image quality and adherence of women between the ages of 40 and 74 to bi-annual screening.
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Technology intervenes to prevent mine fleet traffic incidents

Natalie Filatoff
November 22, 2017
On remote Aniolam Island in the New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea, about 900 kilometres or two hours flight from Port Moresby, Newcrest Mining Limited extracts gold from one of the world’s largest known deposits of the precious metal. Its Lihir mine excavates within the geothermally active caldera of an extinct volcano, yet one of the biggest employee-safety challenges is managing mining-vehicle interactions in the open-pit operations.
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Running RAN engines better on data

Natalie Filatoff
October 29, 2017

Just as the brakes in identical cars identical wear at different rates depending on driver, usual terrain and traffic lights per typical journey, GE LM2500 gas turbines powering the Royal Australian Navy’s surface fleet experience performance differences and repairs at varying intervals.

Why does one gas turbine perform somewhat better than another? Why does the timing of engine repairs on one ship differ from those of an engine of the same age on another ship?

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Innovation powering up New Zealand’s energy sector

Natalie Filatoff
October 29, 2017
“Energy today is more of a grudge purchase, people don’t enjoy paying for it and they don’t always understand the value it adds to their lives.
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Revving up maintenance of the RAN’s surface fleet

Natalie Filatoff
October 29, 2017
What does the Royal Australian Navy do with its LM2500 gas turbines after their ships have come in for the last time? When two LM2500s recently became surplus due to the phased retirement of the Royal Australian Navy’s Adelaide Class frigates, GE and the RAN recognised a maintenance opportunity—the engines would provide hands-on familiarisation and training for RAN crews ashore.
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Inside Crotonville: GE’s Corporate Vault Unlocked

Jane Nicholls
October 29, 2017

When it established its Crotonville campus in 1956, GE wanted to make itself the “best-managed company” in the world. Such hubris was par for the course (there was a lot of golf, too) in that Mad Men era, when leadership was about command and control. The GE advanced managers’ course ran for 12 weeks—unthinkably long today—coaching old-school bosses on how to lead for such aims as scaling up manufacturing processes.

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A world-first app for Qantas pilots

Jane Nicholls
October 29, 2017
Aviation is arguably the most advanced of all data-driven industries, collecting terabytes of data from the thousands of aircraft circling the globe and carefully organising and constantly analysing it in the pursuit of safety and efficiency.
Big data reveals insights to drive the Industrial Internet, but small data has impressive powers of persuasion, too.
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