In Just 4 Years, LEDs Will Outnumber Traditional Lighting – That’s Just The Beginning For Smart Homes
Technology is allowing $15 LED bulbs to now sell for a few dollars, and traditional lighting can't hold a candle to those capabilities. With a home's average 45 light sockets, the evolution of lighting points to a bright future, writes GE Lighting CEO Bill Lacey.
Gebze’deki Fabrikamız 50. Yılında Dijital Dönüşüme Hazır!
50 yıl önce küçük bir atölyede başlayan yerel üretim çalışmaları, bugün alanında ihracat şampiyonu olan dev bir üretim ve Ar-GE merkezine dönüştü. Bugün de GE, Gebze’de yer alan Gebze Güç Transformatörleri fabrikasını bölgedeki ilk akıllı fabrikaya dönüştürüyor.
Hackathon? It’s code for entrepreneurial thinking
As startup business development manager for Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Australia and New Zealand, Ian Gardiner is an expert at leading technology companies to high-growth success. He recently facilitated the AWShine hackathon, in collaboration with Amazon Women Shine, which was designed to bring diversity to the development table and succeeded in achieving a 50:50 female:male participation. Young women graduates from GE joined the hack, and Mark Sheppard, CIO of GE Australia and New Zealand, was a judge at the event.
Nuclear Power
Sink and Swim: Stinger The Swimming Robot Keeps Nuclear Reactors Healthy
Nothing says summertime in Georgia like a dip in the old swimming hole. But near the town of Baxley, there’s one pool that’s not open to the public: the crystal-clear blue waters of the containment vessel bathing the Edwin Irby Hatch Power Plant’s nuclear reactor.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: What? Why? And ASEAN.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) has been ten years in development and is so shrouded in the tightly wound cogs of national secrecy that it’s acquired an almost legendary aura of mystery.
The deal took a major step forward this week with the signing of a TPPA agreement in Atlanta, USA. But with the full terms yet to be revealed, what do we really know about the TPPA? And what does it mean for ASEAN?
What is it?
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: What? Why? And ASEAN
South East Asia countries map on a globe
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) has been ten years in development and is so shrouded in the tightly wound cogs of national secrecy that it’s acquired an almost legendary aura of mystery.
The deal took a major step forward this week with the signing of a TPPA agreement in Atlanta, USA. But with the full terms yet to be revealed, what do we really know about the TPPA? And what does it mean for ASEAN?
What is it?
Why Can’t We Predict Earthquakes?
With the recent earthquakes that hit so close to home, one can only wonder if it is going to happen again. We all know that an earthquake is a sudden violent shaking of the ground, typically causing great destruction within the area but have you ever wondered what goes on beneath the earth’s surface? Could Kuala Lumpur be vulnerable to an earthquake?
Nabil Habayeb: Powering Egypt's New Era of Growth
Even oil-rich nations need an energy boost. GE is working to provide one for Egypt.
Delivering power where it matters and when it matters has been a major challenge for policy makers across the world. Electricity fuels life and growth, and with the population continuing to increase around the globe, the demand for reliable and assured power supply is growing as well, often at exponential rates.
The Biggest Startup: Eric Ries and GE Team Up to Transform Manufacturing
Lean manufacturing, the idea that companies create more value with fewer resources, has been driving productivity for decades. But what if you are efficient at making something that nobody wants? “That’s what happened to most of the startups I’ve built,” says Eric Ries, entrepreneur and author of bestseller The Lean Startup. “Most of them failed.”
Plants for Planes: GE Orders “Bathtubs of Biofuel” to Power Jet Engines
Day in and day out, engineers GE’s Peebles Test Operation subject jet engines to the FAA equivalent of a Tough Mudder race. From the giant GEnx to the tiny HondaJet, the engines must endure hurricane-force winds, bird strikes, heavy rain, hail, ice blasts and other extreme hardships to be certified for flight by aviation regulators. Like any endurance athlete, they consume a lot of calories to power through the course; as much as 200,000 bathtubs of jet fuel annually, or 10 million gallons.