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Power in Numbers: How The Industrial Internet is Helping Solve Pakistan’s Electricity Shortage

November 02, 2015
Shahid Abdullah has been in business long enough to spot a good opportunity. Abdullah is the president of the Sapphire Group, one of Pakistan’s largest textile companies with 16,000 employees, $800 million in annual revenues, and a global base of customers. But when his country started running out of electricity a decade ago, he switched gears and built a large power plant in Muridke, just north of Pakistan’s second largest city Lahore. “Moving into power generation was a step that made sense,” he says.
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Electrification Software Twin

Colin Parris: The Data Economy for Industry Has Arrived

Colin Parris Vice President For Software Research GE Global Research
October 27, 2015

Industrial companies need to adopt a digital mindset that embraces what the Industrial Internet can offer in new growth opportunities.

 

If you have a mobile phone, tablet, computer or all three, companies like Amazon, Google and Apple are all household names. With the explosion of the consumer Internet during the past 15 years, these companies collectively have amassed more than $200 billion in value innovating and establishing new business models on this singular platform. These companies through the use of data and analytics have defined the consumer Internet.
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Turning natural gas into liquid assets

October 27, 2015
Picture this: you are sailing, perhaps cruising, the Pacific waters between Japan and northern Australia, and over the horizon comes a 37,000-tonne structure, bigger than a shopping mall with a few levels of carpark, and crowned by a 105-metre flare boom (a third of an Eiffel Tower), leaning off to one side. Ahoy!
That was the topside of Chevron Wheatstone’s natural gas platform on its two-week journey from the construction yards of South Korea to the Pilbara coast, off Western Australia.
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Talking about our innovation

October 26, 2015
When GE’s global CEO and chairman Jeff Immelt comes to town, checking in on GE’s customers and operations, everyone makes the most of it.
At a lunch for 200 of WA’s top executives, from marketers, miners and media magnates—including Wesfarmers chief executive Richard Goyder, Seven West Media chairman Kerry Stokes, Shell Australia chair Andrew Smith, and GE Australia, NZ and PNG chief executive and president Geoff Culbert, and regional director of Oil & Gas. Mary Hackett—Jeff Immelt was making the most of it, too.
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Robots

Jim Lawton: When Humans and Robots Work Together

Jim Lawton Chief Product And Marketing Officer At Rethink Robotics
October 20, 2015

How collaborative robotics is accelerating the next industrial revolution.

When you hear about innovative technological advances that are reshaping industries, chances are you aren’t thinking about a factory floor. Not much has changed there since the first industrial robots were deployed in the 1960s — until now.
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Every Electron Gets a Byte: Digital Power Plant Makes Electricity Smart

Tomas Kellner
October 13, 2015
Like an industrial cathedral, a power plant can be a placed filled with a special kind of serenity. Walk into the pump room that feeds high-pressure steam into turbines that make electricity and you can see sun dancing on aluminum ducts while the pumps hum to the tune of 800 horsepower.
But on this day, all is not as it seems. Sure, technicians move around purposefully, performing their normal tasks. Valves open in the right sequence like pipes on an organ. Even trained eyes can’t see anything amiss. But back in the control room, a warning box pops up on the plant operator's screen.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Upload Your Engines: GE's First Chief Digital Officer Ganesh Bell Believes that Hardware is the Future of Software

Tomas Kellner
October 10, 2015
Silicon Valley veteran Ganesh Bell believes in the power of software so much that he decided to join one of the world’s largest industrial companies. “After two decades in the software business and working in the Valley, I’ve heard Marc Andreessen say that software was going to eat the world and it clicked,” he says. “I realized the next software company wouldn’t be a software company at all. Everyone has access to cloud, big data, and software talent. It’s the companies with deep industry domain in machines, infrastructure and operations expertise that will have the upper hand.
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Video: Minds + Machines: Software is Eating the World and GE Feels Fine

Tomas Kellner
October 05, 2015
GE held its fourth annual Minds + Machines conference in San Francisco last week. The big themes included opening Predix, the company’s software platform for the Industrial Internet, to outside developers and the launch of the world’s first digital power plant.
 
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Intelligent cities

Listen to This! These “Intelligent” Street Lamps Can Hear Gun Shots, Call for Help

Tomas Kellner
October 05, 2015
The cities of San Diego and Jacksonville are testing an “intelligent lighting” system using sensor-enabled lamps connected to the Industrial Internet with the ability to monitor traffic, get severe weather warnings and even spot empty parking places. Crime could be next on the list.
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How Big Data and the Industrial Internet Can Help Southwest Save $100 Million on Fuel

October 05, 2015
Map out one million flight plans each year for Southwest Airlines. Everything from planeloads of chilly Chicagoans heading for vacations in Cancun to budget-minded businesspeople dashing from Los Angeles to New York. It’s difficult. Now try toting up the countless variables on each one of those flights, such as the air’s humidity and the fuel load on each leg, in hopes of accurately calculating their impact on the bottom line.
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