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Follow The Digital Thread: How GE’s Off To See Profit In The Age Of Cheap Oil

Tomas Kellner
February 03, 2016
Over the last several decades, companies have used tools like Six Sigma and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to squeeze the most out of their factories. But in hard times that may not be enough. “When you have a factory that’s already hitting on-time delivery in 95 percent of cases, what you can do with ERP is limited,” says Anup Sharma, chief information officer at GE Oil & Gas.
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Energy

Lorenzo Simonelli: Let’s Have the Courage to Change the Things We Can

Lorenzo Simonelli GE
February 02, 2016

Instead of living in fear of uncertainty in oil markets, we must think creatively and collaboratively to change the future of the industry.

 

I won’t be the first oil executive to tell you that we live in a time of great uncertainty. The most visible indicator of that uncertainty is today’s low oil price and the impact that is having on our industry: on investment, on jobs, on our employees, their families and communities.
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Give and Take: How GE Oil & Gas Shops for the Future at the GE Store

Timothy Cheng
December 02, 2015
For retailers, Black Friday and Cyber Monday can make or break a year. For global industrial companies like GE Oil & Gas, demand for solutions, resources, and technology doesn’t come up on a single weekend – it comes up every day. Around the world, the business extracts, transports, and refines natural resources, providing full-stream solutions to hundreds of customers for more than 20 years. Last year, the business generated $19 billion in revenues.
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Under the Tuscan Sun: The World’s Largest Jet Engine Was Born in Michelangelo’s Backyard

Tomas Kellner
November 09, 2015
The seaside Tuscan town of Massa defies the Italian stereotype of vineyards and sun-soaked hilltops. True, Michelangelo got stone for David from nearby marble quarries, but today Massa is best known for massive machines and heavy-duty engineering. It’s the birthplace of several industrial goliaths, including GE’s latest jet engine, the GE9X.
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environment

Lather, Rinse, Repeat: This Solution to Climate Change Could Be Hiding in Your Bathroom

Tomas Kellner
September 24, 2015
 
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Scientists Eye Next-Gen Medical Materials to Cure Hydraulic Fracturing’s Need for Sand

August 10, 2015
William Blake could see a world in a grain of sand. Sumitra Rajagopalan, founder and CEO of the Canadian smart materials company Bioastra Technologies Inc., has a similar disposition.
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Deep Machine Learning: GE and BP Will Connect Thousands of Subsea Oil Wells to the Industrial Internet

July 08, 2015
In 1894, California businessman Henry L. Williams drilled a pair of oil wells at the end of a pier sticking out 300 feet into the Pacific Ocean in Summerland, some 90 minutes up the coast from Los Angeles, and drew the first offshore oil.
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If Ships Could Fly:  Big Data Dawn on the High Seas

July 06, 2015
A seaborne locomotive sounds like a crazy idea, but engineer Andy McKeran, who designs heavy-duty offshore equipment at GE, might give it another look. “One of the big benefits of working here is that someone in some other part of the company may have already solved your problem,” he says. “We call it the GE store, except that you don’t have to buy the solution, you get it free.”
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Lorenzo Simonelli: Thinking Like a Tech Startup — Delivering the Next Industrial Era

Lorenzo Simonelli GE
May 04, 2015

In the face of unprecedented global challenges, big companies need to adopt the mindset of  startups — from collaboration to comprehensive problem solving.

 

As Thomas Edison said, “I find out what the world needs. Then I proceed to invent it.” Over 130 years after Edison established GE, invention with practical application remains at the core of everything we do.
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Snapchat For Oil Wells?

May 04, 2015
Aboard a drillship bobbing in the waters off West Africa, a piece of complex machinery unexpectedly shuts down. A mile below the ship, a newly completed deepwater well waits for the installation of a subsea Christmas tree, which controls the flow of oil and gas from the wellhead. But for now, the tree sits uselessly on the deck of the ship.
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