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Minds-Machines

This Is What We Call Data Mining: Software Is Helping This Platinum Operator Boost Production

November 16, 2016
As operations manager at a South African platinum mine, Percy French has faced huge challenges over the past few years because of volatility in commodity prices. The price of platinum has dropped in half, and at the same time the value of the South African currency, the rand, has fallen precipitously. To keep his mine profitable, French had to look for new ways to make it more efficient. He found sensors and software.
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Minds-Machines

GE Takes Predix From The Cloud To The Edge

November 16, 2016
AS: Once I saw an Erector Set in a hardware store. I went inside and asked the owner if I could use it to make a steam shovel and put it in the shop window so they could sell more Erector Sets. He grudgingly agreed and I sat in the back every day after school until it was finished. Later, I brought my mom over and showed her what I built. Sure enough, I got the construction set for Hanukkah. But I was also influenced by science fiction. There were twins in our neighborhood who read one of the first sci-fi magazines, called Astounding Stories of Science and Fact.
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Minds-Machines

You Say Tomato, I Say Terabyte: These Dutch Fruits Of The Vine Are Being Ripened By Software

November 15, 2016
Dutchman Ferdi van Elswijk has fond memories of the summer of 1987, when he was 11 years old and working part-time in his uncle’s 1.9-hectare commercial greenhouse, filling dispensers with sugar water to feed bumblebees who were helping to pollinate tomato plants.
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Minds-Machines

What's Cooking? How Bit Stew, GE's Latest Digital Acquisition, Spices Up The Industrial Internet Of Things

November 15, 2016
Arnold Spielberg: I was always interested in electricity. I liked working with magnets, and I liked working with radios. I knew about Edison and Tesla, but not in detail. I got my first crystal radio set when I was 9. It’s basically a diode that can detect radio waves, and I played around with it. But I never could get it working until a radio repairman who lived next door helped me set it up.
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Building a digital ecosystem? Add this to your must-watch list…

November 15, 2016
Early on Wednesday November 16, the cogs begin turning on the most significant digital-industrial event of the coming year: GE’s Minds + Machines.
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Minds-Machines

Service Economy 2.0: Big GE Digital Acquisition Uses Cloud Analytics To Keep Machines In Shape

November 14, 2016
GE Digital’s latest acquisition is going to make life easier for the people who fix the jet engines, power plants, medical scanners and other technology that we rely on every day. Pleasanton, California-based ServiceMax makes cloud-based applications for field service management to help customers better optimize their assets. Essentially, this means giving technicians in the field the digital tools they need to service and maintain equipment at the right time.
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Disrupt or be Disrupted: New Energy Trends and Technologies Showcased at CEPSI 2016

November 10, 2016
Speaking ahead of his keynote presentation at the 2016 Conference of the Electric Supply Industry (CEPSI) in Bangkok in October, Jack Wen, president, Asia Pacific GE Energy Connections said:

“For many people, the power industry appears stable on the surface. However, a lot of changes have happened in the past five years - new technologies, especially digital technology, have come on stream; more renewable energy is coming online; and customers are also demanding empowerment. This will impact all players in the industry.”
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Back To The Future: This GE Software Engineer Used Code To Bring New Muscle To His Ford Mustang

Kristin Kloberdanz
November 08, 2016
Grease monkeys have been tinkering with Ford Mustangs — the most iconic of the classic American muscle cars — ever since the first one rolled out in 1964. But a car enthusiast in Germany has taken tinkering to the next level. Hanns Proenen, the chief information security officer for GE in Europe, has hacked his Mustang using Predix, GE’s cloud-based platform for the Industrial Internet. He says his classic car is now a data-gathering machine that could rival an electric car.
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Software

An Office With A View: New "Digital Foundry" In Paris Is Forging GE’s Software Future

Tomas Kellner
Kristin Kloberdanz
November 07, 2016
Ping-Pong tables and foosball aren’t the sorts of things people typically associate with a 124-year-old company that builds turbines for power plants and engines for planes. But they are part of the package at GE’s new “Digital foundry” that opened a short walk from beaux-arts halls of the Paris Opera this summer. “You are surrounded by these contrasts of old and new; years of deep expertise and the desire to chart the future,” said Adrien Rivierre, a media manager at the place who recently showed GE Reports around. “This is the most interesting place to work in the city.”
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Predix

The Industrial Internet Is Helping This GE Lawyer Rest Her Case

Tobey Grumet
October 31, 2016
The Industrial Internet usually is associated with wind turbines and jet engines equipped with sensors and streaming data into the cloud for analysis to predict outages and cut maintenance costs.
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