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Put It Into Print: The Future Of Manufacturing In America (And Everywhere Else) Is Emerging, Layer By Layer, At This GE Plant

Tomas Kellner
March 01, 2017
Who would’ve thought that Pittsburgh and its environs would be a paradise for tech geeks?
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Annual Report

Jeff Immelt: Leading A Digital Industrial Era

Jeffrey R Immelt GE
February 27, 2017
GE released its 2016 Annual Report today. It includes a letter to shareowners written by GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt. In the letter, Immelt shares his thinking about GE’s performance and role in the world. Here is a note he sent to employees as well as a link to the Annual Report:
 
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medicine

A Pinky Promise: Even The Most Advanced Machines Didn’t Prepare This Doctor For A Mid-Surgery Magical Moment

February 20, 2017
When women visit Jin-Chung Shih, it’s almost always because their doctor suspects there’s a problem with the pregnancy. Shih runs the labor ward at National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei, and a recent visit from an expectant mother who was 31 weeks pregnant was no different. The woman’s gynecologist suspected the twins she was carrying suffered from twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. This means that one twin gets almost all the amniotic fluid from the shared placenta while the other gets too little.
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Industrial Internet

A $100 Billion Idea: GE’s Jeff Immelt Talks To CNBC’s Jim Cramer About Industry’s Digital Transformation

Tomas Kellner
Timothy Cheng
February 16, 2017
Jeff Immelt, GE chairman and CEO, recently sat down with CNBC host Jim Cramer to talk about GE’s transformation into the world’s largest digital industrial company. Here are the highlights from the interview.
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Aerospace

GE Invests $4.3 Billion To Build Next-Gen Jet Engines, Open New Factories In The US

Tomas Kellner
February 15, 2017
The GE9X jet engine that GE Aviation is developing for Boeing’s next-generation wide-body passenger jet, the 777X, is wider than the body of a Boeing 737 and more powerful than America’s first manned space rocket. It’s also a big deal for the company’s business. Although the world’s largest engine isn’t scheduled to enter service until around 2020, the company already has recorded some 700 orders and commitments valued at $28 billion at list price.
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women in tech

The Slide Rule Sisters Would Be Proud: GE’s Female Engineers Talk About Changing The Gender Ratio In The Workplace

Samantha Shaddock
February 08, 2017
Florence Fogler put down her work for a moment. Mustering language simple enough for a reporter to understand, she explained her task: figuring out how to squeeze more power from coal by unraveling the complexities of thermodynamics.
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Engineering The Future: GE’s Goal To Bridge The STEM Gender Gap By 2020

February 08, 2017

GE today announced goals of having 20,000 women to fill STEM roles at GE by 2020 and obtaining 50:50 representation for all our technical entry-level programs.

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computers

Happy Birthday, Mr. Spielberg: Computer Pioneer Who Helped Design GE’s First Computers Turns 100 On Monday

Tomas Kellner
February 05, 2017

The name Spielberg brings to mind a movie magician whose blockbusters changed storytelling forever. But Steven Spielberg isn’t the first disruptor in the family. His father, Arnold, who turns 100 on Monday, helped mold computing — a field whose rise and dominance over all areas of life has no peer in the history of mankind.

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The Lucky One: How Technology Helped This 15-Year-Old Woman Beat “Incurable” Brain Aneurysm

Laura Zarta
February 02, 2017
When 15-year-old Jessica Vargas from Cali, Colombia, started getting headaches two years ago, a brain scan told her family something they never wanted or expected to hear: Jessica had a large, complicated congenital aneurysm — a bulging blood vessel in her brain — on an artery that’s difficult to access.
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Electrification Software Energy

Davy Jones’ Software: Making Subsea Oil More Productive Through Data

Tomas Kellner
January 31, 2017
Drilling down into the ocean’s floor for oil is challenging even in the best of times. It involves installing and operating massive pieces of equipment in greater and greater depths, crushing pressures and extreme temperatures. It’s difficult, dangerous and expensive. The oil market slump of 2015-16 added an additional squeeze. “Today, anything we can do to increase the availability of the equipment goes a long way,” says Chuck Chauviere, president of drilling systems at GE Oil & Gas. “Every bit of productivity helps.”
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