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What’s faster than Santa? GE’s Industrial Internet

December 23, 2016
We live in an age built on information, and how quickly we receive that information has a huge impact on the value we realise in acting upon it.
Throughout the history of humankind we have innovated towards better and quicker ways of transporting information, from great towering ships that crossed oceans to shining metal machines that traversed the skies.
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GE and Baker Hughes to form new fullstream digital-industrial service company

December 15, 2016

GE and Baker Hughes agreed to combine GE Oil & Gas and Baker Hughes to create a world-leading oil and gas technology and services provider. The new name of the company will be Baker Hughes, a GE Company.

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GE và Baker Hughes tạo ra công ty dịch vụ công nghiệp số dầu khí trọn gói
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GE và Baker Hughes tạo ra công ty dịch vụ công nghiệp số dầu khí trọn gói

December 15, 2016

GE và công ty dầu mỏ Baker Hughes đã thống nhất sát nhập Baker Hughes với bộ phận GE Oil & Gas để tạo ra một nhà cung cấp công nghệ và dịch vụ dầu khí hàng đầu thế giới. Baker Hughes sẽ đổi tên thành Baker Hughes, một công ty thuộc GE (dưới đây gọi là Baker Hughes, thuộc GE).

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Software

Software For Santa? Using Data To Optimize The North Pole

Tomas Kellner
December 15, 2016
There are nearly 2 billion children under the age of 15 living in the world, up from 1 billion in 1960. In fact, kids seem to be everywhere these days, but, strangely, the shockwaves of this population explosion — which shows no signs of abating — are being felt most acutely on the largely barren North Pole. “Santa is relying on the same technology just like 50 years ago, not only to make toys for twice as many kids, but also to distribute them,”said a source familiar with the matter.
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Solar

The California Duck Must Die (But It's Not What You Think)

Kristin Kloberdanz
December 13, 2016
Solar power might be a shining example of a great renewable-energy source. But combined with existing infrastructure, it’s wreaking havoc on California’s electric power grid. So much so the problem already has a popular name: The California Duck Curve.
Here’s why. When legislators in the Golden State passed a climate-change law mandating that California gets a third of its electricity from renewable energy by 2020, they were hoping to encourage residents to install solar photovoltaic cells.
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How Predix is driving the Industrial Internet of Things

December 09, 2016
Back in 2013 Predix, GE’s operating platform for the Industrial Internet, was little more than an ambitious idea, albeit one that the company regarded as critical to its future. Predix launched that year in Chicago at the second Minds+Machines event, but, says Beena Ammanath, VP of data analytics for GE Digital, “we didn’t have many external customers attending … and four years ago Predix was more in PowerPoint than reality."
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Minds-Machines

Sticking The Landing: Behind The Winning App At GE’s Industrial Internet Hackathon

Dorothy Pomerantz
December 05, 2016
Arnold Spielberg in 1961. Image credit: Museum of Innovation and Science Schenectady
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Minds-Machines

The Internet Of Electricity: GE And Exelon Are Crunching Data Generated By Power Plants

Dorothy Pomerantz
November 18, 2016
Every day, Exelon energy company produces up to 32,700 megawatts of electricity that supplies power to millions of customers across the United States. But the Chicago-based company produces more than just power. Its turbines and generators also spin out megabytes of data that different software programs then digest and comb for insights.
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Minds-Machines

This Astronomer’s Idea Just Opened A Universe Of New Opportunities For GE’s Digital Growth

Kristin Kloberdanz
November 18, 2016
Top: Arnold Spielberg at his house in Los Angeles in 2016. Image credit: GE Reports. Above: Spielberg helped build computers that monitored steel mills, steam turbines and other technology. His GE-225 machine even correctly predicted election results. Image credit: Museum of Innovation and Science Schenectady
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Minds-Machines

India's Massive Reliance Industries Holding Just Said It Would Build Apps On GE’s Predix

Tomas Kellner
November 17, 2016
Reliance Industries, India's country’s second-largest publicly traded company, said today it will start using Predix, GE’s cloud-based operating system for the Industrial Internet to optimize its operations and write applications for customers. Reliance said that it would partner with GE to develop Predix apps for the oil and gas, fertilizer, power, healthcare, telecom and other industries in which the holding and its customers operate.
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