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The Future of Work

The Future Of Manufacturing: Global Is Local

Philippe Cochet Svp Chief Productivity Officer GE
March 30, 2017

Let’s change the way we talk about manufacturing.

Too often, the discussion is about how old-line industry is struggling to survive in a world of bold new tech. In reality, digital and additive technologies are transforming manufacturing and growing productivity.

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Manufacturing

From The Keystone State To Karachi: These U.S Locomotives Will Help Drive Pakistan’s Economy

Maggie Sieger
March 30, 2017
Erie, Pennsylvania, is 7,000 miles and a world away from Karachi, Pakistan. Seated on the south side of Lake Erie, the Pennsylvania town is green and full of historic brick homes. Karachi is a bustling metropolis located on the edge of a desert. But there’s one thing Erie and Karachi have in common: trains pulled by GE locomotives.
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Manufacturing

5 Tips To Ride The Digital Tsunami Breaking Old-School B2B Sales

Frank Sportolari
January 19, 2017

The B2B online retail market is expected to double the size of the B2C online market by 2020. Caught in a digital tsunami with the Fourth Industrial Revolution? Here are five ways industrial manufacturers and distributors can ride the wave, according to Frank Sportolari, Managing Director of UPS Germany.

 

 
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skills

3.5M Manufacturing Jobs Need To Be Filled – Will Millennials Step Up To The Plate?

Jennifer Mcnelly The Manufacturing Institute
December 01, 2016
GER: Tell me about the computer Dartmouth used to write BASIC.
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productivity

Move Over Lean Six Sigma, Here Come Smart Operations

Charlie Chung Ups
November 30, 2016
Students and professors at Dartmouth University used a GE-225 machine like the one pictured above to write the first version of BASIC in 1964. Image credit: Museum of Innovation and Science Schenectady
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Robots

Have No Fear, YuMi Is Here! ABB’s Collaborative Robots Just Want To Get Along

November 25, 2016

It turns out it can be pretty tough to hand a robot an object. A challenge with having robotic co-workers alongside humans on the factory floor is the ability for the two groups to interact safely. It's been over a year since YuMi (for "you and me") was introduced to the market to fill that divide. What does the future and the Internet of Things hold for YuMi and other collaborative robots?

 

 
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Manufacturing

Land Of Silk And Lasers: Bespoke 3D Printing Factory For The Oil & Gas Industry Thrives in Italy’s Fashion Heartland

Tomas Kellner
October 31, 2016
For decades, fabric factories on the shores of Italy’s Lake Como kept the fashion houses of Milan resplendent in silk. Today, a new kind of manufacturing in the fashion heartland is spinning up parts for gas turbines that move oil and gas through pipelines and generate electricity.
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Electrification Software

Forget The Consumer Internet Of Things: IIoT Is Where It’s Really At

Jon Pittman
October 13, 2016

While consumer IoT applications may get a lot off buzz, factories are likely to have the greatest potential economic impact from IoT use. Jon Pittman, vice president of corporate strategy for Autodesk, turned his house into an IoT testing ground and came up with three lessons for Industrial Internet of Things systems.

 

 
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Brilliant Factory

From Assembly Line To Digital Thread: The Factory Of The Future Is Here, And It’s Here To Stay

Philippe Cochet Svp Chief Productivity Officer GE
October 07, 2016
Today, on National Manufacturing Day, we celebrate the evolution of manufacturing, its impact on our economy and on the everyday lives of our citizens. From the Industrial Revolution to the age of the assembly line, and now in the emergence of today’s digital and 3D printing technologies, the manufacturing industry has always been an incubator for ingenuity.
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Fourth Industrial Revolution

The Industrial And Digital Worlds Are Converging, Not Colliding.

John G Rice GE
August 19, 2016

How successfully companies combine digital technologies will determine if they make it or break it in the industrial world. These firms are turning to unlikely places to make sure they're not left on the sidelines.

 
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