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The Fix Is In: AI Is Solving The Riddle Of Smarter, Faster Maintenance
It might seem like a cushy job to be the man or woman who works out of the carpeted offices of a power plant, coordinating field service crews who traipse out into the elements to fix, say, an idled...
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Added Value: New GE Center Helps Companies Catch Up On 3D Printing
3D printing is taking off. Literally.Just a few weeks ago, GE Aviation fired up for the first time the Advanced Turboprop engine. The company 3D printed 35 percent of the engine, combining 855 parts...
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The GE Brief – January 9, 2018
“We call it intelligent dispatching.”– Scott Berg, chief executive of GE’s ServiceMax1. THE FIXERDon’t be too surprised if calling for maintenance gets a lot more efficient soon. Starting this year,...
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Batteries Included: Hybrid Power Plants Let Californians Breathe Easy
As Hollywood’s awards season continues and film studios jockey for their Oscars, one Los Angeles entity has racked up enough trophies to make Warner Brothers green with envy. Southern California Edison...
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Change Of Heart: This Augmented Reality System Could Help Ultrasound Trainees...
Human hearts, as most schoolchildren know, are located in the upper left side of the chest. But under the skin, things get murkier. In fact, medical workers occasionally confuse the heart with another...
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Comeback Kid: Will Bolick Has Been Fighting His Entire Life, And He’s Only 5...
Every minute, approximately 255 babies are born around the world. Most of them arrive full-term at 37 to 40 weeks’ gestation. However, 10 percent are born prematurely and need additional care to...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists at Duke University flexed human muscles grown from stem cells for the first time, a thumbnail-sized sensor connected to a smartphone app can track your sun exposure, and another device can...
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Just What The Software Ordered: This AI Could Help Finnish Doctors Spot Cancer
In 2014, three young men from far-flung parts of the world teamed up in Finland with an audacious plan that could soon help doctors save more lives, not to mention money, and chart a new course for...
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Trial And Error: Could This App Help Drug Development For Alzheimer’s Disease...
When a drug trial fails, many factors could be involved, including the way the study was designed, the treatment’s efficacy or safety risks. Some of these are easier to fix than others. Innovative...
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Seeing With Sound: From Bats and Submarines to AI-Powered Medical Imaging
The Italian priest and scientist Lazzaro Spallanzani ran a series of experiments in the 1790s and discovered that blindfolded bats were able to find their way around and catch flies. Yet, when he took...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists in Pennsylvania are planning to re-engineer human immune cells to sniff out and kill cancer, a drone saved swimmers caught in rough surf in Australia, and an AI robot assistant in England...
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Meet GE’s Brangelina: For These Two Moms, Job-Sharing Was The Ultimate Power...
Bobbi Eldrid and Lynda Kaufman have shared a job at GE Power for almost two decades. When they discovered they were both expecting their first children, they began chatting about an age-old struggle....
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Heart To Heart: Two Innovators Reveal What’s Next For 3D-Printing In Healthcare
Jimmie Beacham, who runs GE Healthcare’s Advanced Manufacturing Lab in Waukesha, Wisconsin, received an unusual request a year ago. One of his colleagues asked him whether he could 3D print his heart....
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GE’s Fourth-Quarter Results: Focusing For The Future
Today, GE released its fourth-quarter results for 2017, reporting $0.27 of adjusted earnings per share. Significant one-time charges in the quarter—including an insurance charge, U.S. tax reform, and...
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How One Little Engine Launched A Career That Spanned The Jet Age
Dave Seiwert was fresh out of high school in 1956 when he got the opportunity of a lifetime. In his parents’ garage, the 18-year-old built a 30-pound, 3-foot-long ramjet — a jet engine that uses...
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Powered By Blockchain: Move Over Bitcoin, Here Comes Digital Energy
The fever and frenzy gripping the bitcoin market may ultimately curtail the digital currency’s appeal. But the smart money is already betting on blockchain, the technology that allowed bitcoin to take...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Contact lenses tracked rabbits’ blood-glucose levels through their tears. A new drug silenced the “siren call” that helps cancers grow. And a carnivorous plant inspired a repellent to keep ship hulls...
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A Recipe For Disruption: GE’s New 3D Printer For Metals Prints 10X Faster...
GE engineers recently built and tested 30 different prototypes of a complex, football-size jet engine component. Thanks to cutting-edge 3D-printing technology, they were able to reach the perfect...
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Before The Grammys: How Thomas Edison Invented The Music Industry
Thomas Edison lost much of his hearing when he was still a child. “I have not heard a bird sing since I was 12 years old,” he once remarked. But that did not stop him from inventing the phonograph in...
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Small Change, Big Effect: How A New Gas Turbine Is Helping Fuel Vietnam’s...
Thirty years ago, Vietnam was in a deep economic crisis. Still struggling to recover from the war, much of the country was living in abject poverty. It wasn’t unusual to walk into a home and find...
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