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Rachael Van Reen
Some people hunt for forgotten treasures at weekend yard sales. For Sarah Lukens, the hunt for hidden riches has become a day job. But Lukens, a data scientist at GE Digital in Roanoke, Virginia, is digging for digital gold. She is devising clever ways to sift through piles of industrial data and human knowledge to extract valuable insights. “The future of analytics and artificial intelligence in industry isn’t AI itself,” she says, “but how the data is used in industries by people and by domain experts.”
Growing up in Hyderabad, a large, bustling city in south-central India that has become an information technology hub, Kavitha Andoji was constantly dreaming up inventions that would save her family time and money. In one case, they rigged a stationary bicycle to use the energy from pedaling to power the lights in their home. Another handy device was a machine that would repeatedly hammer a pomegranate to expel its seeds without wasting the juice. “They were mainly my ideas,” she says, “but we used to collaborate to implement them.”
When Larry Culp joined GE as chairman and CEO in the fall of 2018, he brought along years of management expertise — and a specific prescription for turning the company around. Culp announced that GE would look to lean, the system of continuous improvement pioneered in Japan in the latter half of the 20th century, which has shown tremendous results in American business.
At first glance, the stickers affixed next to the bathroom entry door, a check-in kiosk, or a counter at Starbucks don’t look like much. But when flyers passing through the Albany International Airport in New York scan those stickers with their phone cameras, a new app developed by GE and its partners unlocks valuable data stored in a quick-response (QR) code printed on their backs. The app, called Wellness Trace, can tell them when the bathroom was last cleaned, say, or the check-in kiosk sanitized.
В июле 2020 г. в промышленную эксплуатацию был введен программный комплекс, который является виртуальным отражением системы электрических сетей Республики Татарстан. Цифровой двойник, созданный при участии GE, позволил оптимизировать работу электросетевого комплекса Республики и стал примером успешного сотрудничества двух достойных конкурентов.
One day, when he was still barely a teenager, the film director Steven Spielberg came to visit his father, Arnold, at work. It was the late 1950s and the elder Spielberg was building computers for GE in Phoenix. His designs included a revolutionary machine that a group of computer scientists at Dartmouth College later used to write BASIC, the programming language that revolutionized personal computing.
Pat Byrne quickly got to work when he joined GE in July 2019 as the new CEO of GE Digital, the company’s software development unit, which builds applications for the industrial internet of things. He and his team divided the industrial software market into four key segments: the electrical grid, power generation, the oil and gas sector, and manufacturing. Then they visited customers and helped them learn from the data that their machines, power plants, factories and other assets were producing. The approach was effective and is part of work going on throughout GE.
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When Thomas Edison received a patent in 1880 for his “system of electrical distribution,” it was only the latest in a line of inventions that had made the GE co-founder famous around the world. With powerful backers that included J.P. Morgan and other members of New York’s moneyed elite, he quickly used the patent to pitch the city on electrifying a portion of lower Manhattan and illuminating it with his bulbs.
