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GE Partners with #GMIS2021 to Explore the Benefits of Digitization, Lean Production, and Safety to Global Manufacturing

May 25, 2021

DUBAI, UAE – GE (NYSE:GE) and the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (GMIS) have announced a partnership to explore the role of digitization, lean manufacturing, and workplace safety to support the transformation of manufacturing and economic regeneration both in the United Arab Emirates and globally.

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COVID-19

Remote Control: Utilities and Manufacturers Turn to Automation Software To Operate From Home During Outbreak

Brendan Coffey
March 21, 2020
Social distancing and stay-at-home orders may be necessary to fight COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. But the directives create a dilemma for industrial companies that need to continue operations to provide some of the most essential services, like water, electricity, and consumer products.
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Manufacturing

Talking About Her Generation: This Saudi Engineer Is Helping Her Country Reach Beyond Oil Into Manufacturing

October 31, 2019
It was not long ago that the Saudi Arabian economy had a one-track mind.
“Oil is our one and only chance to build a future,” said one of the kingdom’s major writers, Abdul Rahman Munif, about his 1984 novel, “Cities of Salt.” The book’s title was a metaphor for what the author believed was the unsustainability of a crude-based economy: The region’s cities would dissolve when the tide of progress washed in.
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The Future of Work

Game On: Augmented Reality Is Helping Factory Workers Become More Productive

Tomas Kellner
April 19, 2018
Jimmie Beacham is no gamer, but that didn’t stop him from hanging an Xbox console from a ceiling at work. As chief engineer for advanced manufacturing at GE Healthcare, Beacham, 44, is in charge of a futuristic laboratory in Waukesha, Wisconsin, experimenting with new ways to make things. He and his team are using the Xbox and a connected Kinect motion tracker to bring augmented reality (AR) into the factory and help workers become more efficient.
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Manufacturing

3.5 Million Manufacturing Jobs Are Coming. Are You Ready?

Susanna Kim
October 03, 2017
Manufacturing Week is a week-long celebration of modern manufacturing. GE Reports’ Perspectives invited Jay Timmons, president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), to discuss some of the lesser know aspects of the sector, including higher-than-expected salaries and the “rewarding” nature of manufacturing careers.
“The other thing that I think would really surprise folks to know is that within the next 10 years we’re going to have about 3.5 million jobs in manufacturing that are available,” Timmons said.
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Manufacturing

5 Trends For The Future Of Manufacturing

Francois Barbier Flex
July 24, 2017

Manufacturing is a hot topic again, undergoing the industry’s greatest change in more than 100 years. Domestic jobs have evaporated from many countries with globalization, offshoring may be reverting to near shoring and automation threatens to replace more workers every day. The way we build and deliver the goods and products that fuel our economies and our lives will never be the same.



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Manufacturing

5 Tech Trends Shaping The Future Of Fashion Manufacturing

Suuchi Ramesh Suuchi Inc Founder And Ceo
July 17, 2017

At the start of her career, Suuchi Ramesh worked in predictive sciences and analytics to improve the efficiency of retailers’ supply chains, based on data. Today, she’s CEO of a rapid-turn apparel design and manufacturing company, Suuchi Inc., that is growing at a supersonic pace – as fast as fashion trends come and go. In under 2.5 years, her turnkey service for fashion brands, retailers and Fortune 500 companies grew from 3 to 70 employees, and from 1 to over 100 enterprise customers.

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The Future of Work

New Manufacturing Jobs Require New Manufacturing Skills—It’s That Simple

Lisa Campbell Redshift
June 30, 2017

Making spare parts doesn’t sound like ground zero for a technological revolution. But at a time when the entire manufacturing workforce is bracing itself for the changes sweeping the industry, the concept of “replacements” takes on extra resonance.

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automation

Driving Growth: What American Manufacturers Can Learn From Henry Ford

Bill Lydon
May 08, 2017

American manufacturers are competing not only against each other but also against their global counterparts. When it comes to automation, manufacturers don't have a choice but to invest in new technologies. As history shows, it's the early adopter who will get the worm, according to Bill Lydon, editor of Automation.com.

 

 
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Ready For Takeoff: This Apprentice Program Is Launching Jobs In A Jet Engine Factory For High School Kids

Maggie Sieger
April 25, 2017
The Hydes' oldest daughter is an IT business analyst, their son is a computer engineer, and their youngest daughter will be studying art and psychology. Scott Reynolds’ daughters, both of whom were at the top of their classes in high school and college, now work in education, one as a teacher and the other as an operations manager for a national charter school network. When they were young, their father showed them a profile American Girl magazine had written about their grandmother’s career at GE.
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