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Renewables

Supply And Demand: An Internet Of Things App Like This One Could Help Bring More Renewables To Your Home

Maggie Sieger
January 30, 2018
Hackathons, the whirlwind competitions that challenge developers to solve complex problems in a short period, are like the Olympics for computer programmers. Teams compete for prizes, professional accolades and bragging rights among their peers. But one week last fall, they set their sights on a loftier goal: saving Mother Earth.
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How Predix is driving the Industrial Internet of Things

December 09, 2016
Back in 2013 Predix, GE’s operating platform for the Industrial Internet, was little more than an ambitious idea, albeit one that the company regarded as critical to its future. Predix launched that year in Chicago at the second Minds+Machines event, but, says Beena Ammanath, VP of data analytics for GE Digital, “we didn’t have many external customers attending … and four years ago Predix was more in PowerPoint than reality."
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Qantas’s top 5 takeouts from Minds + Machines 2016

November 19, 2016
As Murray Adams, manager of operations, analytics and reporting at Qantas walked back through the great tech hall of Minds + Machines 2016, last Friday on his way to dinner in San Francisco before hopping a flying kangaroo for Sydney, he checked for: tickets, passport and valuable takeouts from the two-day festival of digital-industrial ideas and insights.
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Building a digital ecosystem? Add this to your must-watch list…

November 15, 2016
Early on Wednesday November 16, the cogs begin turning on the most significant digital-industrial event of the coming year: GE’s Minds + Machines.
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Big Data

Going Number One Or Zero: This Japanese Company Just Brought The Binary Code Into the Bathroom

December 22, 2015
Building a house or renovating an apartment typically involves brute force and noise, frayed nerves, busted budgets and, sometimes, poisoned relations with neighbors. But homeowners in Japan can now rely on software-enabled technology to take out some of the pain.
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Saudi Innovation Center Joins GE’s Global Push Into Software and Advanced Manufacturing

Tomas Kellner
November 02, 2015
GE’s innovation center in Saudi Arabia will join the company’s family of global research hubs stretching from the US, to Europe, Brazil, China and India. The move highlights GE’s growing emphasis on software and advanced manufacturing, and its transformation into the world’s largest digital industrial company.
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minds-machines

Power in Numbers: How The Industrial Internet is Helping Solve Pakistan’s Electricity Shortage

November 02, 2015
Shahid Abdullah has been in business long enough to spot a good opportunity. Abdullah is the president of the Sapphire Group, one of Pakistan’s largest textile companies with 16,000 employees, $800 million in annual revenues, and a global base of customers. But when his country started running out of electricity a decade ago, he switched gears and built a large power plant in Muridke, just north of Pakistan’s second largest city Lahore. “Moving into power generation was a step that made sense,” he says.
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minds-machines

Every Electron Gets a Byte: Digital Power Plant Makes Electricity Smart

Tomas Kellner
October 13, 2015
Like an industrial cathedral, a power plant can be a placed filled with a special kind of serenity. Walk into the pump room that feeds high-pressure steam into turbines that make electricity and you can see sun dancing on aluminum ducts while the pumps hum to the tune of 800 horsepower.
But on this day, all is not as it seems. Sure, technicians move around purposefully, performing their normal tasks. Valves open in the right sequence like pipes on an organ. Even trained eyes can’t see anything amiss. But back in the control room, a warning box pops up on the plant operator's screen.
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cyber-security

David Schwartz: Big Data Demands Big Security

David Schwartz Technology Angel Investor And Startup Consultant
October 11, 2015

Devising strategies to protect Big Data is as important as analyzing the information.

 

Big data is becoming an increasingly important part of the business plan for companies in many different industries. Analyzing large customer datasets and other kinds of data with tools like Hadoop reporting lets companies save money as well as boost revenue by targeting their marketing better, designing products to better appeal to their customers, make better predictions, and so on.
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minds-machines

Ladies and Gentlemen, Upload Your Engines: GE's First Chief Digital Officer Ganesh Bell Believes that Hardware is the Future of Software

Tomas Kellner
October 10, 2015
Silicon Valley veteran Ganesh Bell believes in the power of software so much that he decided to join one of the world’s largest industrial companies. “After two decades in the software business and working in the Valley, I’ve heard Marc Andreessen say that software was going to eat the world and it clicked,” he says. “I realized the next software company wouldn’t be a software company at all. Everyone has access to cloud, big data, and software talent. It’s the companies with deep industry domain in machines, infrastructure and operations expertise that will have the upper hand.
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