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Innovation

How "Open Topic Innovation" Can Spur Advances In Manufacturing

Mark Muro Brookings
March 30, 2016

By embracing “bottom-up” innovation, the U.S. government can help advanced manufacturing respond to the speed and complexity of technological change.

 

Gaining a national edge in the advanced manufacturing space typically isn’t a “top down” process, especially given the speed of technological change. Given that, one of the great strengths of the Obama administration’s National Network for Manufacturing Institutes (NNMI) initiative has been its vision of competitive, “bottom up” project selection and governance.
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co2

This Scientist’s Got The Power (Plant) In His Hands

Todd Alhart
March 15, 2016
A picture may be worth 1,000 words. But this one is also worth 10,000 kilowatts.
Though small in stature, the turbine in the photos could contribute to solving some of the world’s biggest energy challenges, not to mention powering an entire town, says Doug Hofer, a steam turbine specialist at GE Global Research.
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Blue Arc

This Machine Can Cut Titanium Like A Hot Knife Slicing Through Butter

March 14, 2016
Metal-cutting technology hasn’t changed a great deal in the last 60 years. Operators still clamp metal parts to the support bench and use drill bits or some other tools to achieve the desired shape. But a new breed of super-strong super-alloys is fighting back.
The intense heat generated during the machining of these next-generation materials can deform, chip and break ordinary cutters. “It is like slicing butter with butter,” says Michael Petracci, president of GE Ventures Licensing. “You won’t get very far.”
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Advanced manufacturing

Mark Muro, Kelly Kline and Bruce Katz: Software Eats Manufacturing (and Manufacturing Gains)

Bruce Katz Brookings Institution
Mark Muro Brookings
Kelly Kline Economic Development Director And Chief Innovation Officer City Of Fremont
February 13, 2016

The digitization of manufacturing is transforming entire industries. Here are five takeaways from a workshop on how U.S. regional economies can support the development of an ecosystem that brings together hardware and software.

 
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Aerospace

“The Biggest Win:” New Engine Set to Lift GE’s Turboprop Business to New Heights

November 16, 2015
Textron Aviation, the world’s largest maker of business propeller planes like Beechcraft Bonanza, Baron and King Air, said today it would use a brand new advanced turboprop engine developed by GE to power its latest single-engine turboprop plane. The engine burns 20 percent less fuel and produces 10 percent more power, compared to engines in its class.
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Aerospace

Give and Take: How GE Aviation is Profiting from the GE Store

November 05, 2015
GE Aviation, one of GE’s largest and most profitable units, generated $24 billion in revenues in 2014. Talking to investors this week just before the Dubai Air Show, David Joyce, its chief executive, said the powerful mix of GE’s technological breakthroughs and the overall growth in airline traffic is keeping him bullish about GE Aviation’s outlook.
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Robots

Jim Lawton: When Humans and Robots Work Together

Jim Lawton Chief Product And Marketing Officer At Rethink Robotics
October 20, 2015

How collaborative robotics is accelerating the next industrial revolution.

When you hear about innovative technological advances that are reshaping industries, chances are you aren’t thinking about a factory floor. Not much has changed there since the first industrial robots were deployed in the 1960s — until now.
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A Passport to Fly: New Engines for Business Jets Tap Latest Military Tech

May 26, 2015
From GPS to the Internet, many everyday technologies have military roots. The same is true for jet engines, especially those powering business jets.
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Jet Engines with 3D-Printed Parts Power Next-Gen Airbus Passenger Jet

May 19, 2015
A next-generation A320neo Airbus passenger jet powered by twin LEAP jet engines with 3D-printed parts and new advanced materials inside took to the skies for the first time on Tuesday.
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GE ASEAN Takes on Cheryl’s Birthday

April 16, 2015
If you’ve not heard of Albert and Bernard’s pursuit of Cheryl’s birth date by now, awaken from your slumber!
This week, a math question posed to 14-year old Singaporean students hit the internet by storm, baffling thousands of users in the process.

The GE Reports team decided to pose this brain teaser to some of the bright young minds at General Electric ASEAN to see if they could beat Albert and Bernard to the punch.

Watch here: “GE takes on Cheryl’s birthday!”
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