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Manufacturing

Land Of Silk And Lasers: Bespoke 3D Printing Factory For The Oil & Gas Industry Thrives in Italy’s Fashion Heartland

Tomas Kellner
October 31, 2016
For decades, fabric factories on the shores of Italy’s Lake Como kept the fashion houses of Milan resplendent in silk. Today, a new kind of manufacturing in the fashion heartland is spinning up parts for gas turbines that move oil and gas through pipelines and generate electricity.
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Made In The Cloud: The Factory Of The Future Will Run On Data

Tomas Kellner
October 07, 2016
Next time you travel to Pittsburgh, treat yourself by taking a self-driving Uber to GE’s Center for Additive Technology Advancement (CATA) located a short drive from the airport.
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From Assembly Line To Digital Thread: The Factory Of The Future Is Here, And It’s Here To Stay

Philippe Cochet Svp Chief Productivity Officer GE
October 07, 2016
Today, on National Manufacturing Day, we celebrate the evolution of manufacturing, its impact on our economy and on the everyday lives of our citizens. From the Industrial Revolution to the age of the assembly line, and now in the emergence of today’s digital and 3D printing technologies, the manufacturing industry has always been an incubator for ingenuity.
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This New GE Factory Is A Blueprint For The Future Of Manufacturing

August 26, 2016
Welland has been known for decades as the city where the rails meet the water. But the Canadian transportation hub, notable for a canal that links Lake Ontario and Lake Erie with a cluster of railways, may soon redefine how we make things. That's because GE broke ground on Friday on its latest "brilliant" factory here. It will be located just across the Canadian border from Buffalo, New York.
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Inside GE’s Brainy Factory Of The Future: What Happens When You Link 3D Printing And The Internet?

Tomas Kellner
April 06, 2016
The Jackhammer And The Metric System
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No Screw Left Unexamined: This Digital Test Bed Can Track the Lives of Machines

October 03, 2015
New machines may not have souls, but they do have lives. Tracking them is the idea behind the Industrial Digital Thread Testbed. This mouthful of a name hides a clear goal: give each machine and even individual parts a digital “birth certificate,” track them through their lifetime, and make sure that the information is properly recorded. “It will give us the digital story of a part’s life from birth to death,” says Dave Bartlett, chief technology officer of GE Aviation. “This has never existed before at this level. Previously, records were disjointed and … very hard to pull together.”
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Video: The Customer Take on Predix

Tomas Kellner
October 01, 2015
Scientists at GE Global Research are developing a new manufacturing idea called the Brilliant Factory. It will allow engineers and designers to optimize production by using sensors to harvest huge amounts of data on factory floors, securely pool it in the cloud and analyze it by powerful software.
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Big Data is the Big Idea Behind the Brilliant Factory Revolution

October 01, 2015
When Christine Furstoss joined GE 26 years ago, she was a hands-on materials scientist who made new turbine parts. She remembers it as a painstaking, arduous and often frustrating process.
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Christine Furstoss: A New Mindset for Manufacturing

Christine Furstoss GE
June 02, 2015

The digital age will provide manufacturing insights that will save money and transform how we work across supply chains.

 

As manufacturing leaders and innovators converge on Detroit for the annual Big M Conference, it’s clear the digital revolution in manufacturing has taken hold. Just glancing at the title of major talks and presentations in the conference program will show just how much digital has penetrated mindsets.

  • “Transforming Your Manufacturing Business for the New Digital Age”
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GE’s Brilliant Advanced Manufacturing Plant in Pune, India

February 15, 2015
When people talk about advanced manufacturing, they usually have Germany, Japan and the United States in mind, not India. That’s about to change. GE has invested over $200 million in a flexible new “brilliant factory” that will produce diverse products, from jet engine parts to locomotive components, for four different GE businesses all under one roof for the first time.
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