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3D Printing

Fit To Print: See Firsthand How GE's Additive Business Is Changing The Way We Make Jet Engines, Jewelry And More

Yari Bovalino
Tomas Kellner
May 23, 2017
A few years ago, a team of eight GE Aviation engineers decided to give additive manufacturing a whirl and 3D print a helicopter engine. Using a laser beam to weld together hair-thin layers of a metal powder, they combined 900 different parts into just 14, including one engine segment that used to have different 300 components. The printed parts were also 40 percent lighter and 60 percent cheaper.
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Big Data

The Power Of Data: How Software Is Helping Keep Iceland's Lights On

Julie Khoo
May 17, 2017
There are many reasons to visit Iceland. This former Viking stronghold is now the most peaceful country and home to the happiest and most literate people in the world — one in 10 Icelanders on average reportedly has published a book.
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Electricity

Smart Electrons: Software And Apps Are About To Make Europe’s Electricity Digital

May 09, 2017
With the right technology, you can easily control the lights inside your home from an overseas vacation. But when it comes to the electricity that powers them, the workers in charge of running the electrical grid often don’t know there's a problem until customers start calling.
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Europe

Above And Beyond: When Tragedy Strikes, These Pilots Spring To Action

Yari Bovalino
May 05, 2017
On Jan. 18, a series of earthquakes sent 120 tons of snow careening into the Hotel Rigopiano at the foot of Gran Sasso mountain in central Italy and spurred Giuseppe Briganti into action. Briganti and his crew from the Italy State Police’s 11th Flight Department in Pescara spent hours airlifting victims to hospitals and bringing back supplies in a rescue helicopter. For the pilots the emergency was large-scale but not  unanticipated.
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fastworks

The Startup Power Plant: These Engineers Are Building Turbines The Silicon Valley Way

Bruce Watson
May 03, 2017
Many management experts are obsessed with "startup culture," the particular mix of vision, energy and nimbleness that allows companies to take an idea, rapidly prototype it and get it to market in short order. But could the same spirit live inside a large industrial company? GE thinks so, with the help of FastWorks, its speedy product-development initiative. In fact, engineers at GE Power just used it to improve a popular gas turbine.
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3D Printing

The Heirs Of Gutenberg: GE Is Adding The Next Chapter Of Its 3D-Printing Push In Germany

Tomas Kellner
April 24, 2017
When the German inventor Johannes Gutenberg developed the printing press during the Renaissance, he set words, and ideas, free. Six hundred years later, his compatriot Frank Herzog is taking printing to a new dimension, using it to liberate designers and reinvent manufacturing. Herzog is the founder of Concept Laser, one of the leading makers of industrial 3D printers.
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Software

Waste Not: This App Just Solved A Manufacturing Riddle Larger Than All The Atoms In The Universe

P D Olson
April 10, 2017
Dirk Uhde isn’t the kind of guy who talks a lot about software. So when a team of data scientists and software developers from GE Digital’s European Foundry met him amid the sparks, grime and welding equipment of the industrial plant he manages in southeastern France, he struggled to follow their technical parlance. When he tried to explain how his machinery worked, they didn’t have an easy time either. Yet it was the most productive meeting he’d had in years, he now says.
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ai

Understanding Animals Can Help Us Make The Most Of Artificial Intelligence

Heather Roff
April 10, 2017
The system currently at the Waukesha lab came from Light Guide System, a Detroit-area maker of augmented reality tools for industry. The first applications are focusing on guiding workers through “the critical steps where we can’t afford to make a mistake,” Beacham says. But his team has already started expanding its scope and connecting it to face recognition technology, collaborative robots, or cobots, and Predix, GE’s software platform for the Industrial Internet.
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blockchain

Vive La Révolution Digitale: A Parisian Suburb Started Testing A Renewable Energy Blockchain

March 27, 2017
The Jean Jaurès elementary school in the town of Rueil-Malmaison outside of Paris is full of French charm. Light streams into a room on the second floor through colored glass casting playful reflections on the floor. Like all schools, the place is an incubator for young brains but also for a piece of cutting-edge technology: the world’s first “green” blockchain.
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Renewables

She’s Got Grit: A Simulated Helicopter Sea Crash Is Just A Small Part Of This Woman’s Job

March 20, 2017
There are no glass ceilings on the North Sea, only ceaseless winds. Those winds will soon drive huge offshore turbines with enough capacity to light up 1 million homes in Germany. But there’s a hitch. The electrons need to travel 50 miles (80 km) under the sea and then another 50 miles undergroud to make themselves useful. Sibylle Stefan’s job is to get them there.
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