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Seeing Double: Digital Twins Make GE and Baker Hughes Supply Chain Innovators
People living around the port of Carrara, in Tuscany, Italy, are used to seeing giant slabs of the region’s signature white marble moved onto ships bound for every corner of the earth. But in the dead...
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The Summer’s Great Scavenger Hunt For GE’s Aviation Technology At Farnborough...
The summer, which just ended, included two grueling but immensely enjoyable months for aviation fans. Starting in July with England’s high-profile Farnborough Airshow and continuing with the world’s...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
In the future envisioned in this week’s coolest things, we’ll be using photosynthesis to harvest unlimited sustainable energy while emotionally sensitive robots fetch supplies from the cupboard and...
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Mighty Morphin Wind Turbines: This New Wind Turbine Platform Is Creating...
The capriciousness of the elements is a perennial challenge for intermittent renewable energy sources. The wind doesn’t always blow, and the sun hides behind clouds. While engineers may not be able to...
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Chill Out: New Freezing Technology Could Help Deliver The Future Of Medicine
When Dr. Edward Scott started his career as a hematologist in the 1970s, he diagnosed blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma, treating them with traditional methods such as chemotherapy, transfusions...
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A New App Sees Signs Of Sepsis Risk In Hospital Patients — And Spurs Staff To...
Every year, more than 1.5 million Americans develop sepsis, an illness that occurs when the body exhibits an extreme reaction to an infection. It’s an elusive and stubborn condition that causes 250,000...
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Can You Hear Me Now? New GE Voices Site Gives Employees, Partners A Place To...
When William “Mo” Cowan was named GE’s president of global government affairs and policy in August, he came with a unique perspective, forged through experience that few can claim: He had served for a...
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The 5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week
A robot helps peel lettuce, tiny viruses seek out E. coli in drinking water, computers give a hand to air traffic controllers, and a fascinating and highly mobile gene can facilitate communication...
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Larry Culp Jr. Named New GE Chairman And CEO
GE announced today it named H. Lawrence Culp Jr. as its new chairman and chief executive. Culp, 55, served as CEO of Danaher Corporation. He joined the GE board in April this year. “It’s been a...
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Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Hornet: The US Air Force Picks...
Boeing’s F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet fighter jets have something for everybody. Built to take off from and land on aircraft carriers, the planes come in handy for escorting ships through hostile...
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GE To Develop A Power Plant In Bangladesh In A $350 Million Deal
Like many rapidly developing countries, Bangladesh needs more reliable and affordable electricity to power its growth. That’s why the South Asian country is racing to massively increase its...
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The Devil Is In The Details: How GE Found A Way To Bring 3D-Printing To Mass...
3D printing has rightfully gotten a lot of buzz because of the marvels it can do. Also known as additive manufacturing, it has opened new paths for designers to create custom shapes that were...
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Xometry: Meet The Matchmaking Masterminds Of Manufacturing
Manufacturing is a notoriously finicky business. But smaller machine shops dependent on a handful of local customers in a single industry are particularly vulnerable to the whims of economic downturns....
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
The first commercial carrier fueled by recycled waste gas from a steel mill just flew across the Atlantic. In Japan, construction workers might get a break: Scientists there created a robot that can...
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Lightning In A Bottle: This Container is Revolutionizing Energy Storage
Johanna Wellington is standing next to what looks like a shipping container. Her safety goggles are the only clues that this container isn’t quite what it seems. A look inside reveals a large array of...
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Full Steam Ahead: Egypt Picks World’s Largest Steam Turbines From GE For Its...
Like many medieval towns in France, Belfort has its share of soaring church domes and spires. But the tallest structures here don’t serve any religion — they are temples of industry.Rising from a large...
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Spin Doctors: These Crews Keep A Close Eye On Massive Wind Turbine Blades
As Europe ramps up its investment in wind power, turbines have bloomed like wildflowers across the continent. Wind-energy production has more than doubled — from 150 terawatt-hours in 2010 to 364...
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An Image Worth A Thousand Words: In Indonesia, A Hospital Uses Technology To...
Indonesia is in the middle of an economic boom. Last year GDP rose 5.1 percent, the country’s highest growth rate in four years. That expansion has helped Indonesia’s government launch a universal...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A week of bio-inspiration: Scientists are figuring out how to use spider venom to treat cancer, and looking to plants for cues on making self-healing, carbon-fixing building materials. But the human...
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Life-Saving Lessons: GE Takes Safe-Surgery Funding To Southeast Asia
Odetha Deus remembers trembling earlier this year when hospital staff told her they’d need to perform an emergency C-section on her, and for good reason.Most of the global population lacks access to...
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