×

GE.com has been updated to serve our three go-forward companies.

Please visit these standalone sites for more information

GE Aerospace | GE Vernova | GE HealthCare 

header-image
3D Printing

Learning By Heart: 3D Printing Could Help Save Lives One Day

Yari Bovalino
Dorothy Pomerantz
June 27, 2017
As a cardiothoracic surgeon at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, Richard Trimlett knows a few things about the heart. He and his colleagues in the U.K. perform 35,000 heart surgeries every year on average. Trimlett typically begins an open-heart surgery by stabilizing the heart with a suction device. But a minimally invasive procedure called keyhole heart surgery is even more delicate.
header-image
Paris Air Show

The Great Paris Air Show Scavenger Hunt for GE Technology

Tomas Kellner
June 22, 2017
If Paris is a moveable feast then the Paris Air Show is an airborne one. The show, which takes place every two years at Le Bourget Airport, is the world’s largest and oldest aerospace event and brings together the latest technology in civilian and military aviation.
header-image
Paris Air Show

GE's 3D-Printed Airplane Engine Will Run This Year

June 19, 2017
The last time engineers designed a civilian turboprop engine from scratch for mass-production, humans had not yet landed on the moon. Unlike jet engines, turboprops typically power small commercial shuttles and personal aircraft, but they still represent a multibillion-dollar market. As a result, a new machine created by a team at GE Aviation is now causing a stir.
header-image
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.
header-image
hackathon

Building The Bitcoin For Energy: This Woman Came Up With A Promising New Idea For Trading Clean Power

Maggie Sieger
Tomas Kellner
June 14, 2017
Talia Kohen exudes enough personal energy to light up a ballroom. But her goals are much grander. “I want electricity to be the factor that unites all of Europe, just like the euro,” she says.
header-image
Electrification Software Energy

Renewable Energy Makes Things Tough On The Grid, But New Software Could Help

Bruce Watson
June 13, 2017
Many energy experts view Europe as a sort of crystal ball for the energy industry — one that’s showing a decidedly mixed future.
On the one hand, renewable sources like wind and sun provide more power than ever. They are also the fastest-growing sources of energy, accounting for 86 percent of all new generation capacity added to the European market in 2016.
header-image
Europe

On The Future Of Work: Creating More Winners And Fewer Losers

Mark Hutchinson President CEO GE Europe
June 08, 2017
 
For the past thirty years, we have celebrated the huge benefits of globalization, with too little attention focused on its drawbacks. At the outset we should acknowledge that the benefits of globalization have greatly exceeded the costs both globally as well as individual countries.
header-image
3D Printing

GE: 3D Printing Opens A ‘New, Unlimited Dimension’ For Manufacturing

Yari Bovalino
Tomas Kellner
June 01, 2017
Carlos Haertel, who runs the GE Global Research center in Munich, says additive manufacturing technologies like 3D printing are opening a “new, unlimited dimension” to how we make products as varied as jewelry, dental implants, planes and jet engines.
header-image
Cancer

This Device Helps Cancer Patients Fight Radiation’s Side Effects

P D Olson
May 30, 2017
Tammy Woodhams was desperate to get back to her job at the National Criminal Justice Association in Washington, D.C. But there was a problem. Part of her face and neck had swollen up so much that she was almost unrecognizable, and it was difficult for her to move and talk.
header-image
future of energy

Supercharge Me: The Case For The European Energy Supergrid

Gerhard Seyrling General Manager Of Grid Automation At GE Energy Connections
May 29, 2017

In March, Gerhard Seyrling, General Manager of Grid Automation at GE Energy Connections was elected to his second term as President of the European Association of the Electricity Transmission & Distribution Equipment and Services Industry (T&D Europe). At the frontline of change, he discusses how an interconnected Europe will shape the T&D industry.

 

 

Subscribe to Europe