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Electrification Software Twin

Colin Parris: The Data Economy for Industry Has Arrived

Colin Parris Vice President For Software Research GE Global Research
October 27, 2015

Industrial companies need to adopt a digital mindset that embraces what the Industrial Internet can offer in new growth opportunities.

 

If you have a mobile phone, tablet, computer or all three, companies like Amazon, Google and Apple are all household names. With the explosion of the consumer Internet during the past 15 years, these companies collectively have amassed more than $200 billion in value innovating and establishing new business models on this singular platform. These companies through the use of data and analytics have defined the consumer Internet.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Upload Your Engines: GE's First Chief Digital Officer Ganesh Bell Believes that Hardware is the Future of Software

Tomas Kellner
October 10, 2015
Silicon Valley veteran Ganesh Bell believes in the power of software so much that he decided to join one of the world’s largest industrial companies. “After two decades in the software business and working in the Valley, I’ve heard Marc Andreessen say that software was going to eat the world and it clicked,” he says. “I realized the next software company wouldn’t be a software company at all. Everyone has access to cloud, big data, and software talent. It’s the companies with deep industry domain in machines, infrastructure and operations expertise that will have the upper hand.
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Video: Minds + Machines: Software is Eating the World and GE Feels Fine

Tomas Kellner
October 05, 2015
GE held its fourth annual Minds + Machines conference in San Francisco last week. The big themes included opening Predix, the company’s software platform for the Industrial Internet, to outside developers and the launch of the world’s first digital power plant.
 
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‘Digital Twin’ Technology Changed Formula 1 and Online Ads. Planes, Trains and Power Are Next

October 04, 2015
When did shopping online become more like driving a 200-mile-per-hour racecar? Quite recently, thanks to something called “digital twin” technology. Now it’s going to change railroads, airlines, factories and the rest of the business world.
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A Date with Data: Taking Stock of the Emerging Digital Industrial Economy

Todd Alhart
September 27, 2015
There wasn’t much talk of Messi but a lot of conversations involving machines talking to machines in certain corners of Barcelona in mid-September, when more than 4,000 humans from over 50 countries converged on this Catalan city for the inaugural Internet of Things Solutions World Congress. This week, the digital caravan moves to San Francisco, where GE is holding its annual Minds + Machines conference in San Francisco – the font of Internet disruption.
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Breaking New Ground: Digital Twin Helps Engineers Design Megawatt-Sized Circuit Breakers

September 23, 2015
We’ve all stood in the dark at least once after getting tripped up by power-hungry appliances. Typically, the remedy is just steps away: a quick flip of the circuit breaker switch, and you’re back in business.
It’s a simple fix, but it involves complex physics. “Circuit breakers protect our homes from electricity overload,” says Tim Ford, senior product manager for industrial circuit breakers at GE’s Industrial Solutions business. “This sounds easy, but the amount of energy they are often called on to dissipate is like grabbing the flywheel of a running car and stopping it.”
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