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On The Right Track: Software Is Helping Make European Trains Smarter

P D Olson
June 14, 2017
Outside of the Island of Sodor, where Thomas the Tank Engine and his magical friends live, trains don’t usually speak. That’s about to change in Europe, where locomotives are set to start talking to their operators and maintenance crews through data collected from thousands of sensors.
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The Big Picture: GE's Cloud Analytics Combo Gives Service Crews New Insights

Kristin Kloberdanz
June 14, 2017
When spot energy prices climb, it’s tempting for wind farm owners to crank their turbines to the max to take advantage of the high prices. But a surge like that can also damage equipment that isn’t in top form. Until recently, it has been almost impossible for wind farm owners to get a clear picture of the health of every piece of equipment at any given moment. As a result, many operators don’t want to take the risk.
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Chips Ahoy: The Port Of LA Is Getting A Digital Makeover

Kristin Kloberdanz
May 18, 2017
GER: How did you end up at GE?
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Sticking The Landing: Behind The Winning App At GE’s Industrial Internet Hackathon

Dorothy Pomerantz
December 05, 2016
Arnold Spielberg in 1961. Image credit: Museum of Innovation and Science Schenectady
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The Internet Of Electricity: GE And Exelon Are Crunching Data Generated By Power Plants

Dorothy Pomerantz
November 18, 2016
Every day, Exelon energy company produces up to 32,700 megawatts of electricity that supplies power to millions of customers across the United States. But the Chicago-based company produces more than just power. Its turbines and generators also spin out megabytes of data that different software programs then digest and comb for insights.
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This Astronomer’s Idea Just Opened A Universe Of New Opportunities For GE’s Digital Growth

Kristin Kloberdanz
November 18, 2016
Top: Arnold Spielberg at his house in Los Angeles in 2016. Image credit: GE Reports. Above: Spielberg helped build computers that monitored steel mills, steam turbines and other technology. His GE-225 machine even correctly predicted election results. Image credit: Museum of Innovation and Science Schenectady
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India's Massive Reliance Industries Holding Just Said It Would Build Apps On GE’s Predix

Tomas Kellner
November 17, 2016
Reliance Industries, India's country’s second-largest publicly traded company, said today it will start using Predix, GE’s cloud-based operating system for the Industrial Internet to optimize its operations and write applications for customers. Reliance said that it would partner with GE to develop Predix apps for the oil and gas, fertilizer, power, healthcare, telecom and other industries in which the holding and its customers operate.
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This Is What We Call Data Mining: Software Is Helping This Platinum Operator Boost Production

November 16, 2016
As operations manager at a South African platinum mine, Percy French has faced huge challenges over the past few years because of volatility in commodity prices. The price of platinum has dropped in half, and at the same time the value of the South African currency, the rand, has fallen precipitously. To keep his mine profitable, French had to look for new ways to make it more efficient. He found sensors and software.
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GE Takes Predix From The Cloud To The Edge

November 16, 2016
AS: Once I saw an Erector Set in a hardware store. I went inside and asked the owner if I could use it to make a steam shovel and put it in the shop window so they could sell more Erector Sets. He grudgingly agreed and I sat in the back every day after school until it was finished. Later, I brought my mom over and showed her what I built. Sure enough, I got the construction set for Hanukkah. But I was also influenced by science fiction. There were twins in our neighborhood who read one of the first sci-fi magazines, called Astounding Stories of Science and Fact.
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You Say Tomato, I Say Terabyte: These Dutch Fruits Of The Vine Are Being Ripened By Software

November 15, 2016
Dutchman Ferdi van Elswijk has fond memories of the summer of 1987, when he was 11 years old and working part-time in his uncle’s 1.9-hectare commercial greenhouse, filling dispensers with sugar water to feed bumblebees who were helping to pollinate tomato plants.
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