Ultra Super Critical: These Badass Machines Help Make 30 Percent Of The...
When GE acquired Alstom’s power and grid business last fall, it bought some of world’s largest wind and water turbines, “ultra-super-critical” steam turbines – that’s their real name – massive...
View ArticleDisrupt or Disappear: New Innovation Barometer Finds Digital Technologies...
Thomas Edison, one of the world’s most prolific inventors, said his main purpose in life was to make enough money to create ever more inventions. “I find out what the world needs,” Edison declared....
View ArticleThe Animal Spirits Index: GE Chief Economist Marco Annunziata Explains The...
State leaders, powerful executives, prominent philanthropists and influential thinkers are getting together for their annual gathering in Davos this week. As usual, Marco Annunziata, GE’s chief...
View ArticleThis MRI Imaging Technique Helped Clinicians Unmask Silent Liver Disease
Nobody wants to be told they are going to die. Yet that’s the prognosis Wayne Eskridge received from his doctors in 2010. The diagnosis was a stage-four case of cirrhosis of the liver. As he and his...
View ArticleDigital Energy: How The Cloud Is Helping This Desert Utility Keep The Lights On
GE Healthcare engineers in Finland have recently started working on a predictive software system that could one day collect human vital signs like blood pressure, temperature and breathing rate, and...
View ArticleAre You Ready For Digital Oil?
GE Oil & Gas became the latest GE business to launch its own digital division. The unit launched a pilot project with BP to help the energy company reduce unplanned downtime by deploying software...
View Article5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Labs around the world are brimming with groundbreaking research more than ever in history. Starting this Friday, we’ll be highlight five of the most interesting examples we’ve noticed over the past...
View ArticleSay Goodbye, Say Hello: GE Stops Making CFLs, Says Go, Go, Go To LEDs
GE is breaking up with compact fluorescent lamps. This year, GE will cease production of its coiled compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) for the U.S. market and instead focus its consumer lighting efforts...
View ArticleThat’s So Nice: Electricity’s Digital Future Has Dawned On The French Riviera
The commune of Carros in the south of France straddles a leafy valley tucked away a short ride from Nice and the beaches of the French Riviera. Like much of Provence, the medieval town of 11,000 swells...
View ArticleFollow The Digital Thread: How GE’s Off To See Profit In The Age Of Cheap Oil
Over the last several decades, companies have used tools like Six Sigma and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to squeeze the most out of their factories. But in hard times that may not be...
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