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WGI and GE aim to bring literacy to millions through launch of new education platform
- Lyra will initially teach users how to read and write in English, and will be offered for free to people in need of literacy skills the most
- The app was co-developed by WGI and GE, as part of their ongoing partnership
- 20-year-old WGI CEO Chance Wilson and GE seek to expand literacy in many underserved communities around the world
As a way to celebrate the International literacy day 2020 on September 8, the WGI Worldwide Company and GE today announced the launch of Lyra, a new app-based education platform that uses innovati
GE Renewable Energy strengthens its position in Vietnam with two projects totaling 60MW
- This order includes two 30MW wind farm contracts in the Mekong delta, Southern Region of Vietnam
- GE to supply a total of 12 of its 5MW-158 Cypress wind turbines, its largest onshore wind turbine technology
- These two contracts include supply and commissioning of the two wind farms
GE Renewable Energy announced that it has secured two 30 MW contracts to supply a total of 12 units of GE’s 5MW-158 Cypress wind turbines to support construction of the Quoc Vinh Soc Trang and Lac Hoa Soc Trang wind farms, located in the Mekong De
Good Thinking: AI Can Help Doctors Spend More Time With Their Patients
It is difficult to comprehend the sheer volume of data in the world, but one man who keeps a running tally is Dr. Mathias Goyen, a diagnostic radiologist. He explains that a single mammogram image of the breast contains more data than the physical phonebook of Berlin, Germany — his home country.
Untangled: How Lean Management Helped A Huge GE Turbine Factory Find Its Mojo P2
“If a problem gets brought up and it isn’t addressed, people just grow apathetic or complacent,” says Nathalie Deney, an engineer in GE’s Operations Management Leadership Program.
Untangled: How Lean Management Helped A Huge GE Turbine Factory Find Its Mojo P1
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.
GE Vietnam: People making a difference
Vietnam has an installed power generation capacity of about 55GW and GE helps supply 30 per cent of its electricity needs through its more than 25 gas turbines and seven steam turbines across 11 power plants and other projects throughout the country. These projects enable Vietnam’s economic development and are each a testament to the hard work and dedication of more than 1,800 GE employees throughout Vietnam, including the people who are the boots on the ground from GE’s factories in Vietnam such as Phu My and Dung Quat.
The New Normal: Software Is Helping Industry Work Remotely. It Is Here To Stay.
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.
Eyes In The Sky: Tiny Sensors Will Keep Tabs On Wind Turbine Blades
Tiny Sensors Will Keep Tabs On Wind Turbine Blades
Leadership in Times of Crisis: Three Traits to Guide Teams to the End of the Tunnel
By Camille LEVY, CEO GE Steam Power, Asia Pacific & China
There Will Be Another Side: GE CEO Addresses The Economic Impact Of COVID-19
GE posted its first-quarter earnings on Wednesday. Reflecting on “a challenging quarter,” GE Chairman and CEO H. Lawrence Culp Jr. said “the world has fundamentally changed” in the eight weeks since he last updated analysts and investors. “This was a challenging quarter for GE, especially in Aviation, where we saw a dramatic decline in commercial aerospace as COVID-19 spread globally in March,” Culp said.