Abu Dhabi, UAE; 20 July, 2020: GE Gas Power has enhanced the efficiency and performance of ADNOC Refining’s General Utilities Plant in Ruwais, United Arab Emirates (UAE) by installing the MXL2 upgrade on a GT13E2 gas turbine.
Pat Byrne quickly got to work when he joined GE in July 2019 as the new CEO of GE Digital, the company’s software development unit, which builds applications for the industrial internet of things. He and his team divided the industrial software market into four key segments: the electrical grid, power generation, the oil and gas sector, and manufacturing. Then they visited customers and helped them learn from the data that their machines, power plants, factories and other assets were producing. The approach was effective and is part of work going on throughout GE.
In March, Enrico Ignesti’s apartment mate, an anesthesiologist, called him with alarming news. Patients infected with the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 were flooding into the hospital where he worked in Turin, Italy. “I don’t have a good feeling about this,” Ignesti’s friend said. By the end of the week, Ignesti’s offices at GE Aviation had shut down, and northern Italy came to a complete stop as the country implemented some of the planet’s most stringent lockdown policies.
Scottish microbiologist Sir Alexander Fleming famously discovered penicillin in London in 1928, but it was a team at Oxford University that purified and tested the antibiotic just in time for use during World War II. Oxford is again stepping up to help the world fight back, and this time it’s against the COVID-19 pandemic.
In early March, Kathy Armijo Etre was managing community outreach as vice president of mission for New Mexico’s oldest hospital, the Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe. The hospital serves as the northcentral New Mexico hub hospital and is assisting with the statewide response to the COVID-19 outbreak amongst Native American populations. In her regular role, Etre set up programs to serve the area’s homeless and care for other vulnerable patients.
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They say necessity is the mother of invention and the global pandemic has created plenty of opportunities to prove the adage right. During normal times, for example, customers buying massive turbines for hydroelectric dams travel to the factories where those machines are being built to participate in what’s known as a Factory Acceptance Test (FAT). This hands-on step is designed to demonstrate that everything works as it should.
But, of course, these aren’t normal times.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a grim education course for clinicians. Doctors and nurses have found themselves grappling with pneumonia, adverse immunological reactions and organ failure as well as a string of surprising symptoms, such as an impaired sense of smell, mental confusion and ‘COVID toe’.
The first six patients arrived by military plane in late March. Intubated and heavily sedated, monitored by an intensivist and two to three nurses each, and equipped with two ventilators per person, the severely ill COVID-19 patients were evacuated from overcrowded ICUs in Paris to Brest, a port city in Brittany, in northwestern France.
Professor Erwan L’Her, chief of intensive medicine at the Centre Hospitalier Régional et Universitaire de Brest, and his team were waiting to receive them. The medical staff had been rehearsing for this day for weeks.
For the last 20 years, Alberto De Monte has spent much of his free time driving an ambulance through the picturesque streets, avenues and back roads of his hometown of Milan, Italy. During nights and weekends, the GE Healthcare sales manager has helped care for victims of car accidents and fires, and even people trapped in collapsed buildings.
