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Fit to Print: New Plant Will Assemble World’s First Passenger Jet Engine With 3D Printed Fuel Nozzles, Next-Gen Materials

June 23, 2014
GE Aviation will open a new assembly plant in Indiana to build the world’s first passenger jet engine with 3D printed fuel nozzles and next-generation materials, including heat-resistant ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) and breakthrough carbon fiber fan blades woven in all three dimensions at once.
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Scientists Use "Big Bang" Supercomputer to Build Better Jet Engine

June 08, 2014
At California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the world’s most powerful computers are working on some of our most fundamental questions about the universe. The Sierra supercomputer, for example, is delving into the Big Bang and trying to figure out why elementary particles have mass.
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Beyond the Pacific Ocean to Malaysia

May 21, 2014
Between our shared passion for mutual economic and societal growth, President Barack Obama’s visit to Malaysia in April was nothing short of a milestone.
His visit did offer him a chance to immerse himself to the local culture as he sampled goreng pisang (banana fritters) and visited famous attractions such as the National Mosque and Jalan Bukit Bintang.
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GE Picks Box to Work in the Cloud

Achin Kumar
May 08, 2014

GE said today that it would start using a new enterprise software platform developed by the cloud-based content company Box to connect its global employees and simplify how they work together.

GE employs 300,000 employees in more than 170 countries and soon the tool will allow many of them, including GE customers and partners, to securely collaborate online and access, store and share data from tablets smartphones and other connected devices.

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The Heart of the Machine: A Look under the Hood of GE’s Industrial Business

Achin Kumar
April 16, 2014
A new generation of jet engines is giving a $144 billion boost to GE’s industrial performance. The engines and services agreements added to the company’s record $245 billion backlog at the end of 2014’s first quarter, whose results GE announced this morning.
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Let the Global Brain Do the Thinking: A New Approach to Making Things

April 15, 2014

Hanging a picture in the living room can be a vexing experience involving just a hammer and a nail. Now imagine bolting a jet engine to the wing of a passenger plane. Maintenance crews use special metal brackets to safely mount and dismount the engines that weigh nearly 13,000 pounds. The brackets are reliable but they are also bulky, adding extra pounds for the plane to carry around.

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How it All Began: The Rise of 3D Printed Jet Engines

Achin Kumar
April 10, 2014
These two jet engine brackets made from a titanium alloy came out of a 3D printer at GE Global Research last December . They were among the 10 finalists in GE’s global 3D printing challenge.
GE and the open engineering platform GrabCAD invited the maker community to design a stronger but lighter bracket used for moving jet engines that weigh nearly 13,000 pounds. The company received over 700 entries from all over the world.
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The Future of Work Starts Now

Marco Annunziata GE
Stephan Biller GE
April 03, 2014
There is a new industrial revolution taking place all around us, transforming the way we make things and changing what our products can do. Technological advances are poised to accelerate productivity growth and deliver substantial economic benefits. These advances will redefine the competitive landscape and improve our everyday lives through momentous changes in sectors like health care, energy, and transportation.
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UK Budget Bolsters Manufacturing Innovation Practices

Mark Elborne GE
March 31, 2014
A number of initiatives were announced in this year’s UK budget that will help maintain the momentum behind British manufacturing innovation, ensuring strong competition with rival markets such as Germany and the U.S., where similar policy support for manufacturing is in place.
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne described his budget as being focused on the “makers and doers.”
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Technology Driving U.S. Manufacturing Renaissance

March 27, 2014
Technological innovation is leading a U.S. manufacturing renaissance that has the potential to bring work back to America for years to come, a new report says. The trend is sustainable if the nation continues to invest in developing advanced manufacturing technologies and a highly skilled workforce.
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