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Electrification Software

Smart LEDs Are Helping GM Drive Down Its Utility Bill

Bruce Watson
July 13, 2017
When Al Hildreth, General Motors’ global energy manager, started looking for a way to save his company $1 billion, a light bulb went off in his head. Actually, make it an LED.
LED fixtures are anywhere from 30 to 60 percent more efficient than traditional industrial lighting. For a company like GM, which operates 350 plants around the world, the savings can quickly add up.

So last year, GM signed an agreement with the company called Current, powered by GE, to be its new LED supplier. But a lower electricity bill was just a part of the picture.
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Prospecting for Australia's digital gold

June 26, 2017
Yonatan Hagos is general manager of Emerging Verticals at GE Digital. That is, he applies GE’s learnings in using data to optimise processes and equipment in its own businesses, to industries outside the GE fold. He was recently in Australia, identifying opportunities in industries that are at an inflection point—where a leap in productivity or a revolution in process and asset use are required for future prosperity.
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GE Is Building The World’s Largest ‘Additive’ Machine For 3D Printing Metals

Tomas Kellner
June 20, 2017
3D printing is growing up. Literally. GE Additive, a new GE business dedicated to supplying 3D printers, materials and engineering consulting services, announced today it is developing the world’s largest laser-powered 3D printer that prints parts from metal powder.
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Renewables

Dam Powerful: These Engineers Are Connecting Hydropower To The Internet

Tomas Kellner
April 20, 2017
There are many large waterways in North America. Then there’s the Saint Lawrence River, whose lumbering current links the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. Montreal, Quebec’s business capital with 1.7 million inhabitants, fits on an island sliced off from the mainland by the waterway and its tributaries. Just west of the city, the river’s surface is so wide it could pass for a sea.
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It’s electrifying! New Zealand’s energy incubator

January 31, 2017
Got thoughts on energy management? Get set. Today Creative HQ, New Zealand’s widely acclaimed and long-running startup-commercialisation base in the city of Wellington, puts spark to a tinder of ideas for the electricity industry. “We’ve noticed various industries in which a faster innovation environment could have real impact,” says Nick Churchouse, CHQ’s head of customer engagement.
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Electrification Software Energy

GE Oil & Gas Chief Digital Officer Explains How Software Is Changing His Industry

Tomas Kellner
January 27, 2017
Earlier in January, GE’s Oil & Gas business signed a $180 million agreement with Transocean, one of the world’s largest offshore drilling companies, to service the massive six-story machines called blowout preventers (BOPs) the driller carries on its ships. In the past, this would have been a routine maintenance contract, but this deal is different.
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Cambodia Eyes Hydro, Steam and Fast Power Innovation

January 11, 2017
An early start, and heavy rain did not dampen the enthusiasm of Cambodia’s Minister of Mines and Energy, Suy Sem, the US Ambassador to Cambodia, William Heidt, and more than 140 guests attending the Powering Cambodia workshop in Phnom Penh on November 22.
Organized by Cambodia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) and GE, the event attracted industry stakeholders including government officials, business and power sector leaders, investors, and GE experts from around the world, to discuss new solutions to help Cambodia reach its energy goals.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

January 06, 2017
It’s the start of 2017, and we can’t help but wonder what amazing scientific advances await. Judging by the year’s first haul, we may soon be able to push things around with tractor beams, print electronics on paper and toast to science with a glass of chardonnay nurtured by data. Cheers!
 

A Key To A Scourge
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Beth Comstock: 6 ways companies can be faster, smarter and more adaptive

December 22, 2016
By the time you’ve gathered enough information to make a decision, the time to make that decision has already passed. This has been a periodic problem faced by managers for decades, but with the speed and volatility we face today, it’s become our default condition. How to adapt? By taking a page from nature. In the second post of a new series on Medium, Beth Comstock, Vice Chair at GE, explores six ways companies can mimic nature so that an understanding of emerging problems and their solutions happens in real time and at market speed.
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Inside the mind of a top CIO

Achin Kumar
December 07, 2016
This story originally appeared on GE Reports, Australia, New Zealand & PNG
 

Mark Sheppard formed his first software company with a mate back in the ’80s. The two 14-year-olds growing up outside the city of Oxford in England, had programmed an adventure game and sold 15 copies—they were pretty happy!
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