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Trains

Brains For Trains: How Software Is Making Trains Smarter

Dorothy Pomerantz
September 21, 2016
We fly connected planes and design self-driving cars, but what about smart trains? If you pay close attention, there is the faint sound of the whistle coming from around the digital bend.
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Industrial Internet

GE Buys $500 Million Machine Analytics Firm

Tomas Kellner
September 14, 2016
Since GE started building its digital business five years ago, it has pursued organic growth, combining a century of domain expertise in building big machines with asset management software and advanced industrial analytics. But the company also has been willing to buy growth when the right opportunity comes along.
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Electrification Software

Sam Likes It Hot: This Intrepid Explorer Just Connected Nicaragua’s Most Active Volcano To The Internet

Tomas Kellner
August 31, 2016
Sam Cossman is the human version of a heat-seeking missile. In fact, he craves heat to the extreme. Cossman, perhaps the world’s most prominent volcano explorer of the moment, spent the early part of August lowering himself into Nicaragua’s active Masaya Volcano, which is threatening people living in the area.
Clad in a silver suit that can withstand 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, Cossman repeatedly descended 1,200 feet into the maw of a crater terminating in a bright orange lava lake and falls.
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Electrification Software

The Airline Of The Future Will Be Powered By Data

Tomas Kellner
August 31, 2016

The Industrial Internet is changing the way the world does business — and that includes at 35,000 feet.

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Renewables

Brussels Is Sprouting A Digital Grid For A Green Boom

Tomas Kellner
August 02, 2016
There is plenty of uncertainty in Brussels this summer, the home to a number of European Union institutions. But one safe bet in the Belgian metropolis is that the lights will stay on.
That’s because the city’s electrical grid is using the Industrial Internet to get smarter. Sibelga, the company that operates the only distribution network in Brussels, will soon adopt GE’s PowerOn Advantage, a sophisticated software solution that controls electricity flows between the traditional grid and the consumer. The software runs on Predix, GE’s data and analytics platform.
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Earnings

Q2 Results: GE Gets A Lift From Strong Performance By Aviation, Power Units

Chris English
July 22, 2016
GE released second quarter results today. Industrial operating plus GE Capital verticals earnings reached $0.51 per share, up 65 percent compared to the second quarter of last year. GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt also reaffirmed the company’s operating framework for the year.
The company also announced that it has returned $18 billion to shareowners for the year to date, including $13.7 billion through a share buyback and $3.7 billion through dividends. In the quarter, GE’s backlog of orders grew to a record $320 billion, up 17 percent since the 2Q’15.
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Electrification Software Energy

Software Will Light The Way To Cleaner Electricity: Q&A With GE Power’s Digital Chief Ganesh Bell

Tomas Kellner
July 18, 2016
Henry Ford’s Model T looks like no car on the road today and the Wright Flyer has been rightfully retired in the Smithsonian. And yet another piece of technology that predates them both—the electric grid—still looks like a network that its designer, Thomas Edison, would recognize.
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Big Data

GE And Microsoft Join Forces In The Industrial Data Cloud

July 11, 2016
The industrial cloud is about to get a lot bigger.
GE and Microsoft Corp. are uniting their cloud computing technologies in a partnership that will bring GE's Predix platform for the Industrial Internet to businesses running on Microsoft Azure.
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Software

Elevator Maker Schindler Group And GE Digital Take The Industrial Internet To The Next Level

Dorothy Pomerantz
July 06, 2016
Swiss company Schindler Group may not be a household name, but the 142-year old company is one of the world’s biggest elevator, escalator and moving walkway companies. Its products haul millions of people every day, and soon it will also move gigabytes of data.
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Minds-Machines

Tour De Force: This New Software Is Helping Digitize An Ancient Source Of Energy - Water

Tomas Kellner
July 01, 2016
The city of Briançon sits in a mountainous corner of France that has become a popular destination for cycling fans, who flock to the punishing Tour de France stages there. But it may soon become a required stop for the energy geeks too.
That’s because a dam in the hills above the city recently started testing new software that allows the operators to monitor power generation in a new, revolutionary way.

 
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