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GE and Rio Tinto: partnering for peak locomotive performance

September 02, 2016
Old world: make, sell, break, fix, make, sell.New world: make, partner, predict, improve.

In an increasingly volatile world, certainty can seem like a bridge too far, but in May 2016 Australian mining company Rio Tinto and GE signed a five-year customer service agreement (CSA) to build mutual assurance around the miner’s rail operation.

The CSA covers the servicing of Rio Tinto’s 196 locomotives—a pure GE fleet—which ply 1,600km of private railway between 15 mines in the famously harsh, hot, red-dirt region of the Pilbara, north Western Australia.
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A digital revolution coming down the freight-rail track

August 08, 2016
Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of coal a day rumbling out of 50 mines, along a network of some 2,700 kilometres of heavy-haul track to three coastal hubs for export. Aurizon’s Central Queensland Coal Network (CQCN) is one of the largest coal rail networks in the world. It carries dozens of trains running mine to port and port to mine—around 85 services daily—aiming to synch with the movements of ships bound for Japan, China, South Korea, India and Taiwan. Now, consider that most of that rail line is single track. Let’s pull over for a moment.
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A roadmap for Australian smart cities

July 28, 2016
Australia’s cities are celebrated as fine places to inhabit, with our capitals regularly jostling with each other for top spots on worldwide liveability lists. However, the sprawl of a few large centres puts pressure on everything: roads and transportation; housing, offices and cultural hubs; energy, water and overall sustainability; convenience; safety and, ultimately, liveability.
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Mothers' Day Special: Meet The Women Who Are Reinventing The World With Science And Curiosity

May 07, 2016
Bud Kelley was one of the first American jet pilots. Image credit: Museum of Innovation and Science Schenectady
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Staycation heroes

January 04, 2016
Lazy mornings, holiday reading, pool toys and barbecue feasts—most of us are soaking in summer and lapping up the down time. But the services we rely on don’t run on autopilot. GEreports unmasks just a few of the GE team who are rostered on, riveted to their mobiles 24/7 and revved to keep spanners out of the works. Across the country, they ensure on-time flights to holiday destinations, clean water to slake your thirst, healthcare ready should you need it, and non-stop productivity of oil-and-gas infrastructure—to keep the economy pumping!
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The innovation platform: GE’s amazing locomotives

October 23, 2015
Australia’s newest iron-ore mine Roy Hill is getting ready to bid farewell to its first shipment from Port Hedland, Australia’s busiest mineral export port in the far north west of Western Australia. The mine’s ‘first ore on ship’ milestone will happen in the next few weeks, the culmination of decades of dreaming, planning and building.
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Rep. Bill Shuster: How to Keep American Aviation Competitive

Rep Bill Shuster Chairman Of The U S House Committee On Transportation And Infrastructure
October 05, 2015

Let’s pass legislation to modernize the U.S. aviation system by doing what our competitors have already done — separate air traffic control operations from the safety regulator.

 
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Loco love: Sensing innovation coming down the tracks

September 24, 2015
“Beast strike” doesn’t happen all that often as kilometres-long iron-ore trains snake their way from mine to port in Western Australia’s searing Pilbara heat, but it’s something you don’t forget quickly if you’re in the cabin at the time.
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Roy Hill’s new GE locomotives are super strong and super smart

March 26, 2015
More than 70% of the locomotives that are hard at work in Australian mining today were made by GE in the United States. Roy Hill, Western Australia’s brand new, innovation-focussed iron-ore mine, is on schedule to begin shipping ore in September, and will one day have 21 GE EVO AC Heavy Haul locomotives at the heart of its operation. The first 14 have arrived in Port Hedland, where Locomotive 1001, was christened “Ginny” at a celebration on March 23.
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The Industrial Internet is Already Changing Our Lives, You Just Don’t Know It Yet

March 19, 2015
In the last 200 years, the world has experienced several waves of innovation. Successful companies learned to navigate these changes and adapt to the changing environment. Today we are on the brink of another thrust of innovation that promises to change the way we do business and interact with the world of industrial machines. It is the rise of the Industrial Internet.
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