A brand-new GE factory in Florida is feeding production data into evolutionary algorithms built on Predix — GE’s cloud-based operating system for the Industrial Internet — to essentially apply the principles of natural selection to capacitors and develop better products.
Bloomberg Businessweek: How GE Became A 124-Year-Old Startup
Timothy Cheng
March 22, 2016
The cover story in the new issue of Bloomberg Businessweek takes stock of GE’s transformation into a digital-industrial company and explains how “GE became a 124-year-old startup.” The magazine writes that a decade after he took over, the long bet GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt took “on the Internet of Really Big Things seems to be paying off.”
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.
Let’s Get Connected: GE Digital Chief Bill Ruh Talks About Intelligent Machines and Our Optimized Future
Philip Trippenbach
September 25, 2015
Bill Ruh believes in intelligent machines as an emerging reality, not a distant sci-fi concept. “I’m looking forward to a future where the power never goes out, where the water is always clean, where airplanes always run on time, and where the health care industry is working to its full capacity,” he says. “Connected, intelligent machines can get us there.”