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GE On Track for 2016: Company Reaffirms Earnings Outlook And Digital Future

Tim Cheng
May 19, 2016
Today, GE Aviation is nearly a $24 billion (2015 revenues). The latest GE jet engines are connected to the Industrial Internet, contain 3D printed parts and also components from space-age materials called ceramic matrix composites. (CMCs). Image credit: GE Reports.
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Advanced Manufaturing

Watch This Water-Guided Laser Machine Cut The Tiniest Holes In The Toughest Metals

Tomas Kellner
May 19, 2016
The project was so secret that team members had to pick up jackhammers, knock down walls and modify the workshop by themselves. Problems quickly popped up after they unpacked the engine from its box. “We didn’t have the right tools,” Sorota said. “Our wrenches didn’t fit the nuts and bolts because they were on the metric system. We had to grind them open a little more to get inside.”
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Electrification Software thread

Times Are Exponentially A-Changin’ — And You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet, Says The X Prize’s Peter Diamandis

Tomas Kellner
May 17, 2016
GE kept working on jet engines, which are now GE Aviation’s core product. The $24 billion business makes the world’s largest jet engines, now roughly 100 times more powerful than Sorota’s original. The latest engines like the GEnx and LEAP can be connected to the data cloud to analyze their efficiency and operations. A jet engine with GE technology takes off every two seconds somewhere in the world. Says Sorota: “It never dawned on me it was going to turn over the entire aircraft industry like it did.”
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Factory Of The Future

The Exponential Revolution: Ray Kurzweil Says The Convergence Of 3D Printing, Nanomaterials And Software Will Change The World

Tomas Kellner
May 12, 2016
If you’ve recently traveled overseas on a Boeing 777 plane, it’s quite likely that a pair of massive GE90 jet engines powered your ride. More powerful than the rocket that took the first American astronaut, Alan Shepard, into space, the engines are representative of the complex machines that GE has been producing for more than a century. But they also show how GE is connecting physical products with software and making them better. “Manufacturing is not a fixed process,” says Christine Furstoss, vice president and technical director for manufacturing and materials at GE Global Research.
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Factory Of The Future

Hacking Matter: Singularity University Holds First Exponential Manufacturing Summit In Boston

Tomas Kellner
May 10, 2016
Welcome To The Jet Age
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women

Mothers' Day Special: Meet The Women Who Are Reinventing The World With Science And Curiosity

May 07, 2016
Bud Kelley was one of the first American jet pilots. Image credit: Museum of Innovation and Science Schenectady
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Innovation

The Science Of Hot: This Sauce Is So Fiery It Comes Wrapped In Jet Engine Supermaterial

Tomas Kellner
April 28, 2016
Earlier this year, GE and Thrillist tapped the hot sauce maker High River Sauces to brew them a hellishly hot sauce spiced up with flakes of the Carolina Reaper and the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, the planet’s two hottest peppers.
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Aerospace

GE Started Testing The World’s Largest Jet Engine

Tomas Kellner
April 22, 2016
How large is the world’s largest jet engine? So large that a professional basketball player would fit inside it comfortably with several feet to spare. Engineers at GE Aviation just assembled the first of these engines and put it on a test stand at the company’s massive boot camp for jet engines located in the woods near Peebles, Ohio.
It’s a giant.
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Aerospace

Airbus Gets 1st Production Jet Engines With 3D-Printed Parts From CFM

Tomas Kellner
April 19, 2016
The European aircraft maker Airbus received the first two production models of the LEAP-1A engine for the next-generation Airbus A320neo passenger jet on April 2. The delivery is a milestone both for Airbus and CFM International, the 50/50 joint venture between GE Aviation and France’s Snecma (Safran) that developed them.
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Big Data

Boston Startup Will Help GE Make Coal-Fired Power Plants Cleaner With Software

April 19, 2016
You’ve heard the story before. Uber, the world’s most valuable cab company, owns no taxis. Airbnb, the world’s busiest accommodations business, owns no hotels and Facebook, the world’s largest social media company, creates very little content. Instead, they use software and advanced data analytics to match supply with demand and give customers what they are looking for in the most direct way.
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