You are not alone. According to Dr Muhammed Abdul Khalid, a former director of research at Khazanah Research Institute, although Malaysia’s unemployment rate stands at 3.5%, about 34% of graduates are unemployed.
“It is indeed worrying that one in three graduates cannot find a job,” he said at the launch of the Millennial Development Programme.
Scale up this scenario a thousand times and the losses from unplanned downtime would definitely be huge. Fortunately, with the industrial Internet and Internet of Things (IoT), we can pre-empt breakdowns and even seek options to improve efficiency by harnessing data and converting them to insights.
Clean and sustainable energy is more than just ‘important’ to GE, it’s an absolute and urgent necessity. With resources dwindling and damage to the environment steadily accruing, I believe that there is simply no question that GE has to strive, as a responsible provider of energy, for the very best solution for our planet.
Whether it is early man’s first use of fire or the birth of the space shuttle, innovation has always been the major catalyst behind the success of mankind. Some of these breakthroughs brought about immediate change, while others humbly laid the groundwork for important developments down the road.