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STEM

Fast Break: Celtics Highlight STEM Equipment Delivery To Everett Students

Brendan Coffey
April 17, 2019
Enrico “Rico” Vega, a seventh-grader at George Keverian, a public middle school outside Boston, wants to be a computer engineer when he grows up. He made the decision after spending a week exploring advanced manufacturing tools — think laser cutters — with his classmates. Those tools, plus programming software and a few high-profile advocates, arrived courtesy of the Brilliant Career Play mobile lab, which for the past three years has been exposing Boston-area students to the possibilities of STEM: science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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The Future of Work

Game On: Augmented Reality Is Helping Factory Workers Become More Productive

Tomas Kellner
April 19, 2018
Jimmie Beacham is no gamer, but that didn’t stop him from hanging an Xbox console from a ceiling at work. As chief engineer for advanced manufacturing at GE Healthcare, Beacham, 44, is in charge of a futuristic laboratory in Waukesha, Wisconsin, experimenting with new ways to make things. He and his team are using the Xbox and a connected Kinect motion tracker to bring augmented reality (AR) into the factory and help workers become more efficient.
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Phụ nữ làm kỹ thuật: Nữ tính là thế mạnh!

October 18, 2017

Cơ hội luôn rộng mở cho phụ nữ trong ngành vốn được mặc định là “của đàn ông” – kỹ thuật, công nghệ. Đặc biệt, khi là phái yếu, phụ nữ còn có nhiều lợi thế riêng để phát triển sự nghiệp.

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Automatic For The People: Plant Supervisor Teaches Workers To Embrace The Digital Future

Kristin Kloberdanz
October 05, 2017
Dustin Castor recently announced to a factory full of longtime workers that their jobs were about to be replaced by robots.
At least, that’s what they thought they were hearing.

Castor was only two years into his job as a supervisor at GE Transportation’s engine remanufacturing plant in Grove City, Pennsylvania, when in 2016 he had to tell assembly-line operators with decades of experience that the way they did their jobs was about to change dramatically.
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The Future of Work

Looking Smart: Augmented Reality Is Seeing Real Results In Industry

Kristin Kloberdanz
May 25, 2017

Google Glass may have stumbled in the consumer market, but smart glasses have found new life in industry. Workers assembling wind turbines at a GE Renewable Energy factory in Pensacola, Florida, for example, wear smart glasses powered by Upskill, a GE Ventures-backed company that produces enterprise software for wearables.

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The Future of Work

Leaner Than Lean: How Digitalization Transforms Manufacturing

Randy Stearns
May 12, 2017
If you want to see the future of manufacturing, follow the Tama River about 45 kilometers upstream from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport to the GE Healthcare facility in Hino, Japan. Inside this outwardly conventional, low-rise suburban business complex is emerging the blueprint for the future of manufacturing, tweak by painstaking tweak.
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The Future of Work

GE Healthcare's 3D Printing Incubator Is Liberating Engineers (And Much More)

Tomas Kellner
May 10, 2017
Hailing from the Outer Banks, a long, sandy necklace of islands hanging from North Carolina’s Atlantic coast, Jimmie Beacham knows something about witnessing history. When his grandfather, John, was a small boy, he watched one of the Wright brothers’ first attempts at flight in nearby Kitty Hawk, a feat that ultimately ended up changing how we live. Now Beacham himself is in the vanguard of a revolution, one that is changing how we design and make things. It’s called additive manufacturing, which includes technologies like 3D printing.
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The Future of Work

The Future Of Manufacturing: Global Is Local

Philippe Cochet Svp Chief Productivity Officer GE
March 30, 2017

Let’s change the way we talk about manufacturing.

Too often, the discussion is about how old-line industry is struggling to survive in a world of bold new tech. In reality, digital and additive technologies are transforming manufacturing and growing productivity.

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The Future of Work

School’s In: GE’s New "Brilliant Learning" Program Will Train Workers For Jobs Of The Future

Tomas Kellner
March 30, 2017
Jesse Schrimpf didn’t study additive manufacturing in school. But when a 3D printer showed up at his plant in Waukesha, Wisconsin, the GE Healthcare engineer decided to give the machine a whirl.
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Software

Make It Better: This Industrial-Strength Talent Has A Heart For Helping And A Mind For Building

Samantha Shaddock
March 07, 2017

“Most people probably wouldn’t say this, but I love hospitals,” says Lane Konkel. As a child growing up in Wisconsin, the 26-year-old lean manufacturing engineer would accompany her father, an orthopedic surgeon, to his office. “I’d play around with the little models of the knee and pull on the ligaments or I’d visit patients post surgery. For me, hospitals are connected to a lot of really great memories.”

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