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supply chain

Bottlenecks Begone: How GE Aerospace Devised a Way to Make Engines and Save Hundreds of Millions in Inventory

Peter C. Beller
September 28, 2023

With the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic behind us, travelers are flocking to airports again, leading to surging demand for jet engines, but supply chain issues are hindering the aerospace industry’s ability to deliver for customers. GE Aerospace’s Greg Pothoff is on a mission to make sure the company can deliver to its customers.

engineers

Safety First: A Retiring GE Aerospace Materials Engineer Made Protecting Lives His Mission

Amy Merrick
April 06, 2023
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Shortly after he joined GE Aerospace in 1984 as a materials engineer in Evendale, Ohio, Glenn Culbertson received some blunt advice from a senior colleague. “A lot of people will tell you that they’re your customer: your boss, your boss’s boss, the CEO,” the co-worker told him. “They’re all wrong. The customer is the engine. If you do right by the engine, you’ll do right by everybody else.”

Employees

‘It’s All About Purpose’: This Engineer Calls the Shots in GE’s Factory for Jet Engine Super Ceramics

Chris Noon
December 06, 2022
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Loren Finnerty manages more than 300 shop floor workers and engineers at GE Aerospace’s giant Asheville plant in North Carolina, where thousands of advanced composite components are produced every year for GE jet engines, such as the GE9X, as well as the

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Aerospace

Blue Sky Thinking: This Team Gives Jet Engines A New Lease On Life

Tomas Kellner
October 25, 2021

In early October, GE Aviation closed the door on an era as employees sent the most powerful version of GE’s storied CF6 engine to China Airlines. The delivery was an emotional one, for good reason: It was the last CF6-80E1 engine the company produced.

The CF6 is no ordinary jet engine. GE produced more than 8,500 of them for 250 airlines in 87 countries, going back to its launch in 1971. Among the many passenger and cargo planes it powers is the U.S. president’s Air Force One Boeing 747.

Press Release

Going with the Flow: GE Researchers Successfully Test Subscale 3D Printed Heat Exchanger at Temperatures 400°F Higher than Conventional Devices

June 23, 2021
  • Subscale Demonstration hits key milestone on the Lab’s project with ARPA-E called UPHEAT – Ultra Performance Heat Exchanger enabled by Additive Technology
  • GE scientists using the power of 3D design and printing to break efficiency barriers and reduce carbon emissions in large-scale power generation and flight.
  • Project on track for demonstration of heat exchanger prototype by Q1 2022 that operates at temperatures exceeding 1,650 °F and pressures >3,600 psi

NISKAYUNA, NY – June 23, 2021

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Todd Alhart
Director, Innovation Communications
GE Aerospace
+1 518 338 5880
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GE Researchers Aiming to RAISE Combined Cycle Gas Turbine Efficiency

November 24, 2020
  • Developing Refractory Alloy Innovations for Superior Efficiency (RAISE) – an ultra-high temperature material system that would enable gas turbine blades to operate at 1,700 °C (3,092°F)
  • Will help drive efforts to push turbine efficiency beyond 65% and accelerate decarbonization of the energy sector
  • $1.6 million project to be driven by world-class, multi-disciplinary team with decades of experience and a dedicated High Bay lab facility in alloy, coating and process development     <

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    GE Aerospace
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materials

This Material Is SiC! Wonder Compound Makes The Jump From Skateboards To Next-Gen Military Tech

Fred Guterl
January 14, 2019

It would be hard to imagine a happier success story than silicon-based electronics. In the six decades since Morris Tanenbaum built the first silicon transistor at Bell Labs, engineers have been able to shrink the size of the transistors they put on a silicon chip from microns to nanometers, and increase the density of circuit elements a millionfold. But silicon has an Achilles' heel: When it gets hot, its electrical properties degrade, and chips made from the material fail faster.

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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
May 25, 2018
"Scientists at Carnegie Mellon built a self-healing skin whose applications could include bio-inspired robots, their colleagues at UCLA found a way to 3D-print muscles and connective tissue, and a team in Norway came up with “evolutionary algorithms” that enabled a robot to teach itself to walk. This week’s science roundup sounds a little like a script for a prequel to a Hollywood blockbuster. Can you name it?
 

 

Smart Skin
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Smash Hit: Why Ceramics May Be The Hottest New Material For Engineers

Tomas Kellner
November 14, 2017
People have used ceramics to protect their hands from hot liquids for ages. But as anyone who’s ever dropped a coffee mug on the kitchen floor knows, the material is fragile. “When you hit it, it fails catastrophically,” says GE materials scientist Krishan Luthra.
Still, Luthra couldn’t resist the idea that this heat-resistant material could shake up industry — if he could keep it intact. “I thought it would be the Holy Grail if we could get it inside machines, and get more power and savings out of our jet engines,” he says. “It could really make an impact.”
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
February 24, 2017

Researchers built an AI that learned to how to code, found chemicals in a giant lizard’s blood that killed deadly bacteria, and proposed efficient wind turbines fashioned to behave like insect wings. This science will blow you away.
 

This AI Just Learned How To Code

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