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All The 3D Print That's Fit to Pitt: New Additive Technology Center Opens Near Steel Town

Tomas Kellner
September 06, 2016
GE’s new Center for Additive Technology Advancement (CATA) looks like a futuristic set for a Stanley Kubrick movie. Everything seems to be white: the walls, the gleaming floors, even the noise from rows of laser-powered 3D printers near the entrance, quietly making everything from jet engine blades to oil valves.
Located by a new highway exit just minutes from the Pittsburgh airport, the center, which opened in April, is so new even Uber drivers require human navigation. But the center is no mirage.
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3D Printing

These Engineers 3D Printed a Mini Jet Engine, Then Took it to 33,000 RPM

September 05, 2016
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Consider it a jet engine for the Oompa-Loompas. GE engineers working on the future of aircraft manufacturing recently showed off some of their capabilities. They made a simple 3D-printed mini jet engine that roared at 33,000 rotations per minute (see video above).
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Next-Generation Cessna Denali Will Have A 3D-Printed Turboprop Engine

Tomas Kellner
July 26, 2016
Many people would prefer flying in a private plane to dealing with the hassle at the airport. Those with $4.8 million in their pocket may soon have that choice. Textron Aviation just unveiled a new business aircraft powered by a propeller engine that features many of the comforts of a private jet, but at an entry-level price.
The plane, called the Cessna Denali, will have the largest cabin in its class—seating up to eight people—and an engine powerful and efficient enough to reach Chicago from Los Angeles or Miami from New York.
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How Additive Technologies Are Paving A Path To A Full-Scale Manufacturing Revolution

Christine Furstoss GE
July 20, 2016

GE's Christine Furtoss explains how additive technologies today are making breakthroughs, from surgical procedures to jet engine parts. In the future, the use of 3-D models in additive manufacturing will go beyond the realm of our imagination.

Imagine the day when we can “Print-On-Demand” real, functional parts for complex machines any time, any place around the world. In other words, imagine that printing a critical part for an engine whenever you want, wherever you want, becomes as simple as printing on a sheet of paper in your inkjet printer.
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The Great Farnborough Airshow Scavenger Hunt For GE Tech

Tomas Kellner
July 16, 2016
GE technology has been hiding in many unexpected places at the Farnborough International Airshow, which ends on Sunday in England. It was in the wings of the latest wide-body plane from Airbus, the A350 XWB, in the engines of the next-generation Boeing 737 MAX, in the cockpit of the newest Gulfstream jet, and even under the hood of a brand-new F-18 Super Hornet. We dispatched pilot and photographer Adam Senatori to sniff it out. Here’s what he brought back.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
June 24, 2016
It’s been an exciting week for brains and biology. Scientists in Oregon have used a combination of software and brain imaging to read the human mind, their colleagues in England developed a “bio-ink” that can be used to 3-D print living tissue, and a neuroscientist in Canada found a way to evoke and erase memories. Welcome to a brave new world. Read on!
 

 

Scientists Build A Mind-Reading Machine
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3D Printing

MakerBot CEO Says 3D Printing Is Spurring Invention

Jonathan Jaglom Ceo Of Makerbot
May 10, 2016

Desktop 3D printing is empowering a world of innovators by enabling those without formal design or engineering skills to find solutions to their own problems.

 

At the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, N.Y., surgeons and scientists are exploring whether they can replace patients' damaged or diseased windpipes with customized ones grown in the lab.
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Jay Rogers: Why Making Things Locally Is The Key to Sustainable Manufacturing

Jay Rogers Local Motors
April 24, 2016
The government selected GE for the project because of its knowledge of the high-temperature metals needed to withstand the heat inside the engine, and its expertise in building turbines for power plants and battleships, and superchargers for high-altitude bombers. GE now calls this know-how accessibility and cross-pollination the GE Store. “The FBI man warned me that if I gave away any secrets, the penalty was death,” Sorota said.
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Aerospace

GE Started Testing The World’s Largest Jet Engine

Tomas Kellner
April 22, 2016
How large is the world’s largest jet engine? So large that a professional basketball player would fit inside it comfortably with several feet to spare. Engineers at GE Aviation just assembled the first of these engines and put it on a test stand at the company’s massive boot camp for jet engines located in the woods near Peebles, Ohio.
It’s a giant.
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Aerospace

Airbus Gets 1st Production Jet Engines With 3D-Printed Parts From CFM

Tomas Kellner
April 19, 2016
The European aircraft maker Airbus received the first two production models of the LEAP-1A engine for the next-generation Airbus A320neo passenger jet on April 2. The delivery is a milestone both for Airbus and CFM International, the 50/50 joint venture between GE Aviation and France’s Snecma (Safran) that developed them.
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