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The Future of Work

Leaner Than Lean: How Digitalization Transforms Manufacturing

Randy Stearns
May 12, 2017
If you want to see the future of manufacturing, follow the Tama River about 45 kilometers upstream from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport to the GE Healthcare facility in Hino, Japan. Inside this outwardly conventional, low-rise suburban business complex is emerging the blueprint for the future of manufacturing, tweak by painstaking tweak.
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Manufacturing

Land Of Silk And Lasers: Bespoke 3D Printing Factory For The Oil & Gas Industry Thrives in Italy’s Fashion Heartland

Tomas Kellner
October 31, 2016
For decades, fabric factories on the shores of Italy’s Lake Como kept the fashion houses of Milan resplendent in silk. Today, a new kind of manufacturing in the fashion heartland is spinning up parts for gas turbines that move oil and gas through pipelines and generate electricity.
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Electrification Software

Forget The Consumer Internet Of Things: IIoT Is Where It’s Really At

Jon Pittman
October 13, 2016

While consumer IoT applications may get a lot off buzz, factories are likely to have the greatest potential economic impact from IoT use. Jon Pittman, vice president of corporate strategy for Autodesk, turned his house into an IoT testing ground and came up with three lessons for Industrial Internet of Things systems.

 

 
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Electrification Software thread

Times Are Exponentially A-Changin’ — And You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet, Says The X Prize’s Peter Diamandis

Tomas Kellner
May 17, 2016
GE kept working on jet engines, which are now GE Aviation’s core product. The $24 billion business makes the world’s largest jet engines, now roughly 100 times more powerful than Sorota’s original. The latest engines like the GEnx and LEAP can be connected to the data cloud to analyze their efficiency and operations. A jet engine with GE technology takes off every two seconds somewhere in the world. Says Sorota: “It never dawned on me it was going to turn over the entire aircraft industry like it did.”
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Factory Of The Future

Hacking Matter: Singularity University Holds First Exponential Manufacturing Summit In Boston

Tomas Kellner
May 10, 2016
Welcome To The Jet Age
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