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The Wingmen: GE Welders Band Together In New Career As Robot Programmers
Ice Man, Viper, Goose, Hollywood. Any fan of ‘80s movies will recognize the nicknames of the competitive pilots in the movie Top Gun. But those are also the names of four welding robots being...
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The Road Ahead: Paula Northern Lights The Way For Young Professionals
Growing up in southern Louisiana, Paula Northern was a girl who liked math and science. When her parents registered her for a summer high school engineering program, she was hooked. “I loved mechanical...
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The Aviator: How A Young Pilot Became A Top-Flight 3D-Printing Engineer
At 15, Josh Mook got a job refueling planes and handling bags at a small airport near his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. He’d work eight hours a day after school, then blow his earnings every...
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Joint Venture: How GE And Johnson & Johnson Are Making 3D-Printed Body Parts...
The writer H. L. Mencken quipped that conscience was a mother-in-law who never left. Sam Onukuri can say the same thing about inspiration, and he means it literally.Onukuri and his team at Johnson...
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Mission Critical: GE’s New Digital Center In Atlanta Is Using Data From Power...
Justin Eggart and fellow engineers working inside GE Power’s Monitoring and Diagnostics Center in Atlanta were halfway through their shift a few months ago when they noticed something strange. The...
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Blade Runners: Take A Look Inside This Factory 3D Printing Jet Engine Parts
Located near the edge of the fertile Po Valley in northern Italy, the town of Cameri could easily be mistaken for a quiet farming commune. But take a short ride through the green, rolling fields around...
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Where Turbines Are Born: An Inside Look at GE’s Big Iron Maternity Ward
There are places in the world that make us feel small and force us to marvel at the skills and ambitions of their architects and engineers. They include cathedrals in Europe, NASA’s Cape Canaveral...
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Automatic For The People: Plant Supervisor Teaches Workers To Embrace The...
Dustin Castor recently announced to a factory full of longtime workers that their jobs were about to be replaced by robots.At least, that’s what they thought they were hearing.Castor was only two years...
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What The US Manufacturing Sector Really Needs To Stay Competitive
As part of Manufacturing Week, a celebration of modern manufacturing, GE Reports’ Perspectives invited Jay Timmons, President and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), to talk about...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Spores could unlock the next massive reservoir of renewable energy, evolution-inspired software could give jetliners bird-like wings, and gene therapy made blind mice see again. Did you ever see such a...
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Solar Power Is Becoming Cheap Enough To Compete With Fossil Fuels In The Gulf
Dubai has so many sunny days—more than 300 on average every year—it seems like a no-brainer for the city to use some of those rays to power its many glittering skyscrapers, massive malls and luxurious...
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In Her Element: How Kristen Hough Left The Coal Mines And Started Climbing...
Standing on a 10-foot-wide platform 365 feet above the rolling green hills of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Kristen Hough looks tiny. The winds at this height are strong enough to spin a...
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A View To A Kilowatt: Fit For A Bond Villain, This Massive Swiss Power Plant...
Imagine the silvery-white mist of a waterfall, spraying down the side of a cliff face that towers over a quaint Swiss village. Now imagine a different kind of waterfall. One that’s man-made, processes...
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Fast Power: Grounded Jet Engines Are Powering Indonesia’s Pearl Paradise
The turquoise, nutrient-rich waters off the coast of the Indonesian island of Lombok are perfect for growing pearls. But when pearl farmer Fauzi Se wanted to take advantage of nature’s bounty and...
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From Light To Bright: San Diego Is Building The World’s Largest Municipal...
San Diego’s newest streetlights might not look all that special — and that’s exactly the point. Designed to blend in with the rest of the city’s outdoor lighting, they’re easy to overlook. Under the...
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The 5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week
Genetically engineered hens lay drug-laced eggs, 3D micro organs provide a safe way to test new medications, and the Chinese finger trap inspires an expanding heart valve implant for children. Biology...
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A Bright Idea: How LEDs Are Helping JPMorgan Chase Become Carbon Neutral
When Mike Norton took over as managing director of real estate at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in 2015, he took on a weighty responsibility that included finding an efficient and sustainable way to oversee...
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Taking Stock: This Software Is Taking The Pain Out Of Inventory
In the perfect business world, there would be no red ink, no broken machinery and no needless meetings. Many factory managers would also add this to the list: no inventory gathering dust on the...
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The Sword In The Virtual Stone: These Eyes Can Peer 1,600 Years Into The Past
In 2012, Berlin conservator Katrin Lück brought a tiny, severely corroded lead scroll to GE’s Technical Solutions Center in the town of Wunstorf in northern Germany.Lück believed that the precious,...
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GE And Apple Team Up To Bring The Industrial Internet To The iPhone and iOS
The Industrial Internet is about to get the Apple treatment.GE and Apple announced today they will bring Predix, GE’s software platform for the Industrial Internet, to Apple’s iPhone smartphones and...
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