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GE Looks Back

August 24, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uusAeCOi8DY
Malaysia has come a long way from where it was to where it is today, with tremendous economic growth and infrastructure expansion. Since GE’s first office in Malaysia in 1975, we have seen Malaysia grow in every sector, from oil and gas to healthcare. GE is honoured to be able to support this nation’s infrastructure growth. In this video, Stuart Dean, CEO of GE ASEAN describes GE’s milestones, transforming with the nation in the last 40 years.
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Trains

Now Arriving: The World’s Oldest Trading Empire Is Getting New Trains

Bruce Watson
July 12, 2017
For most of recorded history, Egypt has been at the cutting edge of transportation technology. The country had a canal connecting the Nile and the Red Sea thousands of years before the Suez Canal was built. Egypt boasts the world’s oldest seaport, and in 1852, it also opened the first rail line in Africa and the Middle East linking Alexandria to the city of Kafr el-Zayyat.
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Minds-Machines

On The Right Track: Software Is Helping Make European Trains Smarter

P D Olson
June 14, 2017
Outside of the Island of Sodor, where Thomas the Tank Engine and his magical friends live, trains don’t usually speak. That’s about to change in Europe, where locomotives are set to start talking to their operators and maintenance crews through data collected from thousands of sensors.
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Africa

Back On The Rails: How Machinists In Pennsylvania Are Helping Drive Angola’s Economy

Maggie Sieger
May 04, 2017
A few years ago, a group of investors from Singapore planned to open a large iron mine in the Huila province in southwest Angola. The mine would bring jobs and money to the local economy, but the project failed because there was no reliable way to move the ore from the mine.
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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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Trains

The Heaviest Haul: A New Locomotive Factory Will Put This Indian State On The Fast Track

Tomas Kellner
December 25, 2016
GER: You were also involved in movies.
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Trains

Brains For Trains: How Software Is Making Trains Smarter

Dorothy Pomerantz
September 21, 2016
We fly connected planes and design self-driving cars, but what about smart trains? If you pay close attention, there is the faint sound of the whistle coming from around the digital bend.
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Earnings

Q2 Results: GE Gets A Lift From Strong Performance By Aviation, Power Units

Chris English
July 22, 2016
GE released second quarter results today. Industrial operating plus GE Capital verticals earnings reached $0.51 per share, up 65 percent compared to the second quarter of last year. GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt also reaffirmed the company’s operating framework for the year.
The company also announced that it has returned $18 billion to shareowners for the year to date, including $13.7 billion through a share buyback and $3.7 billion through dividends. In the quarter, GE’s backlog of orders grew to a record $320 billion, up 17 percent since the 2Q’15.
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Dig This: The Panama Canal Expansion Used Enough Steel To Build 22 Eiffel Towers

Tomas Kellner
July 01, 2016
The Cosco Shipping Panama freighter made history Sunday by being the first working ship to slip through the Panama Canal's huge new locks. The expansion project swallowed enough steel to build 22 Eiffel Towers, cost $5.2 billion and took nine years to complete.
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Electrification Software thread

Times Are Exponentially A-Changin’ — And You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet, Says The X Prize’s Peter Diamandis

Tomas Kellner
May 17, 2016
GE kept working on jet engines, which are now GE Aviation’s core product. The $24 billion business makes the world’s largest jet engines, now roughly 100 times more powerful than Sorota’s original. The latest engines like the GEnx and LEAP can be connected to the data cloud to analyze their efficiency and operations. A jet engine with GE technology takes off every two seconds somewhere in the world. Says Sorota: “It never dawned on me it was going to turn over the entire aircraft industry like it did.”
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