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The Fix Is In: AI Is Solving The Riddle Of Smarter, Faster Maintenance

P D Olson
January 08, 2018
It might seem like a cushy job to be the man or woman who works out of the carpeted offices of a power plant, coordinating field service crews who traipse out into the elements to fix, say, an idled wind turbine. But it’s far from elementary. “It’s still a judgment call,” says Scott Berg, chief operating officer of ServiceMax from GE Digital. “Dispatchers probably can’t consider all the historic factors and track record of the individual. Your ability to dispatch might be dependent on your personal knowledge of 20 people.”
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3D Printing

Uncharted: How 3D Printing Experiments Delivered A Better Power Plant

Maggie Sieger
January 04, 2018
Many of Kassy Hart’s first attempts at 3D printing didn’t end well.
Back in 2015, Hart was trying to print a special metal probe from a cobalt-chrome alloy at GE Power’s Advanced Manufacturing Works in Greenville, South Carolina. 3D printers build parts, step by tiny step, by fusing together superthin layers of fine metal powder with a laser or other powerful energy source.
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3D Printing

A New Dimension For Industry: How 3D Printing Is Doing Its Part To Reduce Greenhouse Emissions

Maggie Sieger
December 14, 2017
3D printing may still seem a bit like science fiction, but in truth, it’s all around us — in luxury vehicles, jet engines and customized implants used to rebuild skulls and bones.
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ESP helps Australia breathe easy

Natalie Filatoff
November 23, 2017
It takes more than an Allen key and a caffeine drip to open 50 shipping containers of some 3,000 flatpacked parts and assemble them into a 350-tonne lung that filters air for Australia.
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How Do You Move A 3,000-Tonne Biomass Boiler From Finland To Germany? You Turn It Into A Huge Jigsaw Puzzle

Maggie Sieger
November 06, 2017
The Guinness World Record for the biggest jigsaw puzzle belongs to the University of Economics in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The puzzle (an image of a lotus flower) was 48 feet by 76 feet (14.6 meters by 23.2 meters) and consisted of 551,232 pieces. A GE project in Finland might rival that record for size and complexity. In this case, it’s not a jigsaw puzzle that requires assembly, but a giant Foster Wheeler biomass boiler.
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Power Up: GE Software Helps Exelon Make The Most Of Its Data

Maggie Sieger
October 26, 2017
The huge Chicago-based energy company Exelon generates enough electricity to supply millions of customers in 48 states and parts of Canada.  Its wind and solar farms, hydroelectric plants and nuclear power stations also pump out a lot of valuable data about wind speeds, swings in consumer demand, the purpose and frequency of repair crew trips, and other details. In 2015, it started pooling this data in the cloud and trawling it for insights to make its power plants smarter.
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Electricity

Fast Power: Grounded Jet Engines Are Powering Indonesia’s Pearl Paradise

October 12, 2017

The turquoise, nutrient-rich waters off the coast of the Indonesian island of Lombok are perfect for growing pearls. But when pearl farmer Fauzi Se wanted to take advantage of nature’s bounty and expand production at his jewelry business, he was stymied by a problem only humans can solve — his workshop didn’t have enough electricity to power his machines. “We recently ordered casting equipment to help with our pearl production,” Se says. “But, after the goods had arrived, it turned out we were not ready on the electricity side.”

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Strange Cargo: How Do You Move An 8 Million-Pound Heat-Recovery Steam Generator Down The Hudson? Swimmingly.

Amy Kover
September 18, 2017
On a tranquil day in early August last summer, boaters out for a sail on the Hudson River may have noticed something rather strange — an enormous barge carrying what looked like a 12-story structure inching its way beneath the Rip Van Winkle Bridge.
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Cooking With Gas: GE’s Record-Breaking Turbines Prove Their Mettle

Amy Kover
September 15, 2017
In June 2016, a power plant just outside Bouchain, a town in the north of France, had its moment in the sun when it broke the Guinness world record for fuel efficiency. Not only did the plant’s newly installed GE gas turbine hit a net efficiency rate of 62.2 percent, but the turbine could also ramp up to full power within a half an hour, an important factor for utilities bringing on the grid electricity from renewable sources like wind and solar farms.
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Here Comes The Sun: This Digital Technology Will Make Solar Power More Predictable

Bruce Watson
September 11, 2017
Solar power is clean, limitless and widely available. It’s also getting cheaper. But as with any large system with multitudes of parts, reliability is key. Digital can help.
For example, some of the largest solar farms stretch over acres of cheap land often far away from where people live. If there is problem, technicians must get there, find out what’s wrong and order spare parts. Typically, they discover new issues while on-site. The farm can be offline for weeks before they fix it.
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