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Elevator Maker Schindler Group And GE Digital Take The Industrial Internet To The Next Level

Dorothy Pomerantz
July 06, 2016
Swiss company Schindler Group may not be a household name, but the 142-year old company is one of the world’s biggest elevator, escalator and moving walkway companies. Its products haul millions of people every day, and soon it will also move gigabytes of data.
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Minds-Machines

Tour De Force: This New Software Is Helping Digitize An Ancient Source Of Energy - Water

Tomas Kellner
July 01, 2016
The city of Briançon sits in a mountainous corner of France that has become a popular destination for cycling fans, who flock to the punishing Tour de France stages there. But it may soon become a required stop for the energy geeks too.
That’s because a dam in the hills above the city recently started testing new software that allows the operators to monitor power generation in a new, revolutionary way.

 
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Electrification Software Grid

So You Have A Wind Farm, Now What? This Software Will Bring More Renewable Power To People's Homes

June 28, 2016
You know it’s windy when water seemingly violates the law of gravity. That happened in Scotland last February when Storm Henry’s 100-miles-per-hour gale flipped a waterfall on the Isle of Mull on its head, made it cascade up a cliff and turned it into a YouTube sensation. No wonder wind power is big business in the Highlands.
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The Rising Digital Tide Is Lifting GE, Industry

Tomas Kellner
June 23, 2016
A brand-new GE factory in Florida is feeding production data into evolutionary algorithms built on Predix — GE’s cloud-based operating system for the Industrial Internet — to essentially apply the principles of natural selection to capacitors and develop better products.
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Minds-Machines

Digital Darwinism: The Industrial Internet Is Helping This GE Factory Evolve Better Products

Tomas Kellner
June 15, 2016
It took evolution 4 billion years to turn the first primitive cell into a software engineer. Now a group of highly evolved engineers working at a brand-new GE factory have combined computer code and the principles of natural selection to evolve and build better products in just days.
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Minds-Machines

Full Steam Ahead: This Software Brain For Coal-Fired Power Plants Could Help Eliminate 500 Million Tons Of CO2

Tomas Kellner
June 14, 2016
GE just picked up a head of steam and put it in the cloud.
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Minds-Machines

New “Digital Foundry” In Paris Expands GE’s Global Software Footprint

Tomas Kellner
June 13, 2016
When Credit Lyonnais built itself a grand new office near the Opera in the center of Paris in the 1870s, it used a piece of the Louvre as a model and commissioned Gustave Eiffel’s atelier to design its soaring glass canopy.
Even today, the building remains a big draw for new generations of engineers. Except this breed doesn’t use steel beams and glass to shape the world. They write software to control machines.
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Minds-Machines

The Lazarus Project: How Software Brought To Life A Decommissioned Power Plant In Italy’s Industrial Heart

Tomas Kellner
June 13, 2016
If you want to see the future of electricity, grab an espresso and head to Northern Italy. There, just outside the industrial city of Turin, the combination of renewable energy, traditional generation and a high-voltage cable from France has created more power supply than the region can absorb. So much so, in fact, the glut took at least one decades-old power plant out of commission in 2013.
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Daintree national spark: GE’s Australian acquisition

May 18, 2016
In April this year, Current, powered by GE, a startup taking innovative, agile approaches to streamlining energy solutions for customers, acquired Australian-founded Daintree Networks for $100 million.
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Electrification Software thread

Times Are Exponentially A-Changin’ — And You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet, Says The X Prize’s Peter Diamandis

Tomas Kellner
May 17, 2016
GE kept working on jet engines, which are now GE Aviation’s core product. The $24 billion business makes the world’s largest jet engines, now roughly 100 times more powerful than Sorota’s original. The latest engines like the GEnx and LEAP can be connected to the data cloud to analyze their efficiency and operations. A jet engine with GE technology takes off every two seconds somewhere in the world. Says Sorota: “It never dawned on me it was going to turn over the entire aircraft industry like it did.”
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