- New Perth Aeroderivative Services L2 facility and Tooling Store underscores GE’s commitment to provide local, flexible and faster support for aeroderivative power plant operators in Australia, which provide a total of 2,373 MW, powered by GE’s aeroderivative technology
- With the first-of-this kind workshop in Australia, GE better positions itself to perform planned and unplanned maintenance locally, reducing repair cycle time and logistics costs for Australian aeroderivative power plant operators
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A Turn For The Better: With ‘Lean’ Ideas, This Team Upended GE’s Approach To Servicing Europe’s Wind Farms
For Don Quixote, the hapless hero of Miguel de Cervantes’ 17th-century novels, the windmills that dotted the dun-colored plains in the central Spanish region of Castille-La Mancha were illusory giants in need of slaying. So what would Quixote think now of the enormous warehouse that Bob Karl and his colleagues at GE Renewable Energy operate in the small town here called Noblejas?
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Year In Review: In 2020, Lean Management Was More Important Than Ever — And GE Leaned In
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.
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New Energy: How GE Embraced ‘Lean’ And Reinvented Its Birthplace
Schenectady in upstate New York has seen its fair share of ups and downs in the past 150 years. But new energy is coming to town.
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The Lean Way: Culp Gives An Update On GE’s Lean Transformation
Perhaps the most important initiative Larry Culp announced when he joined GE as chairman and CEO was introducing the concept of lean management and putting it into action. Shortly following his second anniversary in the job, Culp delivered an update on lean, bringing his colleagues and select members of the media up to speed on how GE’s adoption of the management approach has progressed so far. From the get-go, he’s seen lean as a natural fit for GE. “I know of no other way to run a business than through lean principles,” he said.
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Being There: Q&A With Pat Byrne, GE’s Lean Transformation Leader
Pat Byrne first encountered lean management more than two decades ago and has since become an expert practitioner and believer in the power of its philosophy of continuous improvement. So much so that Byrne, CEO of GE Digital, also serves as vice president for lean transformation at GE, which placed lean at the core of its turnaround. “What I learned about lean is that it’s the ultimate engagement tool,” he says. “Lean is not a thing you do at the end of the month to fill out forms, you do it every day. It is a full-contact sport.
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Lean Management Is Driving GE’s Turnaround. It’s Also Helping During The COVID-19 Pandemic
Angie Norman is comfortable with uncertainty. As one of GE’s experts in lean management, it’s her specialty to crack complex problems in urgent need of a solution. So, when GE Healthcare needed to set up and attach accessories to thousands of medical monitors in record time to serve patients during the pandemic, she was exactly the right person for the job.
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No Time To Waste: GE Is Using Lean Management To Right Itself. When COVID-19 Struck, This Tool Delivered
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.
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Untangled: How Lean Management Helped A Huge GE Turbine Factory Find Its Mojo
In the last half-century, the GE Gas Power plant in Greenville, South Carolina, has experienced the same kind of dizzying roller coaster ride as the city where it’s located. Founded some 200 years ago on the Reedy River, Greenville grew into a textile manufacturing hot spot and a paragon of Southern hospitality — until the 1970s, when the city’s downtown took a turn. Mills closed, hotels shuttered, and the clattering trams carrying riders on shopping errands and to business lunches fell silent.
