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Network News: Airlines Seek Operational Benefits From Digital Systems
The airline industry capitalized on the value of networks with the creation and extension of booking systems to travel agents decades before we started shopping on the Internet. Today, advances in...
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Getting More Air Time: This Software Helps Emirates Keep Its Planes Up And...
Until recently, the maintenance department at Emirates, the Dubai-based carrier, was operating by the book. Literally. Ground crews used detailed charts and calendar-based schedules to estimate when...
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Talking Shop: The Academy Award For The Most Important Invention In Motion...
In the Hollywood version of Hollywood history, the movie industry exploded in popularity thanks to a pair of brilliant inventions. First Thomas Edison’s movie camera gave birth to the silent film...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Bone marrow implants could forestall neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, synthetic DNA sheds light on how life might’ve evolved elsewhere in the universe, and computer-designed DNA could...
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Next Stop, Wabtec: GE Completes Spin-Off And Merger Of Its Transportation Unit
GE announced today that it has completed the spinoff and merger of its Transportation business with Wabtec Corporation. GE received approximately $2.9 billion in cash as well as shares of Wabtec common...
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GE To Sell Its BioPharma Unit For $21.4 Billion To Danaher
GE announced plans on Monday to sell its BioPharma business to Danaher for approximately $21.4 billion, including $21 billion in cash. GE Chairman and CEO H. Lawrence Culp Jr. said the deal was a...
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Onward
Dear fellow shareholder,This is my first letter as Chairman and CEO of our company.I want this to be a document you can use as a reference for how we plan to run GE for the long term. As the saying...
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Practice Makes Perfect: Kevin And The Art Of VR Maintenance
Not so long ago, an engineer going through training at GE Healthcare opened the receiver subsystem on a telemetry unit he was learning to fix and pulled out a component. Seconds later, the device,...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Atmospheric carbon gets turned back into coal, tobacco plants are repurposed as “green bioreactors,” and an artificial intelligence text generator becomes worrisomely good at its job. There’s all sorts...
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Judgment Call: Why GE Is Experimenting With ‘Humble AI’
Here’s a nightmare story for you: Machines, endowed with artificial intelligence, get smarter than their creators, take charge and attempt to save humans from themselves. Oops. Smarts, it turns out,...
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Cheers! This California Winery Gets Its Juice From The Wind
The Scheid family has been farming grapes in the lush agricultural region of California’s Salinas Valley for almost half a century. They own 12 estate vineyards on a 70-mile stretch just miles from the...
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Life In A Fast Plane: Sleek Business Jet Scores Twin Distance And Speed Records
There are plenty of fast and fancy business jets, but only one that flies the fastest and farthest. This week, the plane maker Bombardier revealed that its Global 7500 plane scored a set of records for...
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Break It To Make It: These Two Women Are Helping Build The Wind Turbines Of...
For the last two summers, Claire Stortstrom and Kristen Hanrahan have set up shop for a day in an empty office in downtown New Orleans. The two young GE engineers arrived laden with stacks of sticks,...
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Working Hard, Playing Hard: This Olympic Rugby Hopeful Shows Grit On And Off...
Late last January, Amanda Berta got up at the ungodly hour of 5 a.m., threw on her sweats, gobbled down four eggs and a chocolate protein shake, and dashed out into the dark, frigid Chicago streets. As...
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Extreme Makeover: Aging Gas Power Plants Playing The Energy Game Increasingly...
Three years ago, when GE and Italian utility A2A resurrected a mothballed power plant in Chivasso, they also created a roadmap for how older plants could be made over to emit fewer greenhouse gases and...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
If you can manage to ignore that small robotic cheetah nipping at your heels, this week’s coolest scientific discoveries represent a lot of happy news, including a highly promising advance in HIV...
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On The Beam: Could Ultrasound One Day Replace Drugs?
When doctors prescribe drugs for people with chronic diseases, they do so knowing that unwanted side effects on the body can occur. In some cases, it’s a matter of risk versus benefit. “When someone...
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Green Giant: Cypress, GE’s Huge New Onshore Wind Turbine, Comes To Life
In a quiet corner of Europe, a giant is stirring. A prototype of Cypress, GE Renewable Energy’s largest-ever onshore wind turbine, has just produced its first kilowatts of power in the Dutch coastal...
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GE’s 2019 Outlook: Building On Strengths And Tackling Challenges
GE Chairman and CEO H. Lawrence Culp Jr. hosted an outlook meeting with analysts and investors today. He walked them through the company’s plans to deliver on its strategic priorities of improving its...
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Expanding World-Class Execution with FieldCore’s New Manila Global Service...
What does excellence look like? At FieldCore, a GE company, it looks like world-class execution on a global scale. With the recent launch of the company’s Manila Global Service Excellence Center...
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