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Oil & Gas

GE And Baker Hughes To Form New Fullstream Digital-Industrial Service Company

Timothy Cheng
October 31, 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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Student challenge: change the world in 90 days

October 21, 2016
Want to make a difference? A group of Sydney-based universities and GE are testing the hypothesis that bringing together student spark and digital-industrial know-how can accelerate change.
The experiment: take 30 engineering and IT students from Australia’s top universities; add mentors, training, and a powerful software platform; place in a Generator with a tangle of real-world industrial challenges; and shake!
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Made In The Cloud: The Factory Of The Future Will Run On Data

Tomas Kellner
October 07, 2016
Next time you travel to Pittsburgh, treat yourself by taking a self-driving Uber to GE’s Center for Additive Technology Advancement (CATA) located a short drive from the airport.
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GE, Qantas—mining data for gold in Texas

October 07, 2016
Qantas and GE recently accelerated a decades-long, uplifting relationship into the digital-industrial cloud; the Flight Efficiency Services agreement, signed in September 2015, is already delivering on GE’s promise to increase the airline’s operational flexibility and fuel efficiency while reducing its carbon emissions.
This week marks the opening of a new frontier in the companies’ innovative alliance as Qantas becomes the launch partner in GE’s latest collaboration centre in Austin, Texas.
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IoT

Esperanto For Machines: GE And Bosch Partner To Help Machines Talk To Each Other

Kristin Kloberdanz
September 27, 2016
When the machines of tomorrow talk to each other, what language will they speak? Will a German car be able to communicate with traffic in America, and a jet engine from Cincinnati with a maintenance shop in China?
GE Digital and Bosch Software Innovations, the Bosch Group’s software and systems house, are working together to make machines and devices understand each other through a common language.
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Software

Japan’s First Digital Power Plant Goes Live

Kristin Kloberdanz
September 26, 2016
The massive gas-fired Futtsu Power Station, which forms a small peninsula in Tokyo Bay, is capable of generating 5,040 megawatts of electricity for millions of Japanese homes and businesses. Made up of four combined cycle blocks, the plant is already the most efficient of the 15 power stations operated by TEPCO Fuel & Power, the utility servicing the area around Japanese capital. But in the interest of “kaizen"—the Japanese philosophy of continuous improvement—TEPCO believes it can perform even better.
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Trains

Brains For Trains: How Software Is Making Trains Smarter

Dorothy Pomerantz
September 21, 2016
We fly connected planes and design self-driving cars, but what about smart trains? If you pay close attention, there is the faint sound of the whistle coming from around the digital bend.
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Electricity

Electricity 2.0: Why Asia’s Utilities Are Getting Ready To Download The Digital Power Plant

Hong Chou Hui
September 20, 2016
Asian economies grew an average of 6 percent last year—nearly triple the rate of Europe and the U.S.—and their appetite for electricity is growing accordingly. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that world energy consumption will increase 48 percent by 2040 and that much of that growth will come from countries such as China, India and Indonesia.
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Software

Neural Networks And Dynamite: AI Engineer Peter Kirk Talks About His Fascination With Coal Power Plants

Tomas Kellner
September 20, 2016
In April 2016, GE Power acquired the Boston-based machine learning and data analytics startup NeuCo Inc., which uses software and artificial intelligence to improve the efficiency of coal-fired power plants. They are still the most common source of electricity in the world.
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Industrial Internet

GE Buys $500 Million Machine Analytics Firm

Tomas Kellner
September 14, 2016
Since GE started building its digital business five years ago, it has pursued organic growth, combining a century of domain expertise in building big machines with asset management software and advanced industrial analytics. But the company also has been willing to buy growth when the right opportunity comes along.
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