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GE Digital has expanded its industrial internet partnership with Microsoft, according to Reuters.
The two companies had already been working together on further developing GE Digital’s Predix platform.
Manufacturers tend to connect sensors to their machines and then connect the sensors to Predix. [Read more…] about GE Digital expands industrial internet partnership with Microsoft
General Electric has reached a partnership agreement with Apple to develop industrial apps for iOS devices – iPhone and iPad, according to a report on 9to5Mac.com.
The website says Apple has been “looking to the enterprise sector as a key market for growing iPad sales which have slipped in recent years”.
Apple and GE said they will deliver “powerful industrial apps designed to bring predictive data and analytics from Predix, GE’s industrial internet of things platform, to iPhone and iPad”. [Read more…] about Apple and General Electric to bring Predix industrial apps to iPhone and iPad
General Electric claims it was the first company to have launched an industrial internet of things platform when it released Predix last year.
The company’s software business unit, GE Digital, has been generating revenues of more than $4 billion a year, and looks like it’s strongly influencing the future direction of the overall business.
Another of the big ideas at GE is the “Brilliant Factory” concept, which is essentially the digitalisation of anything and everything that can be digitised in a manufacturing or industrial process. [Read more…] about General Electric deepening its interest in the software business
General Electric’s digital business unit became one of the world’s largest software companies by offering an internet of things platform for industrial operations.
GE Digital’s Predix software platform enabled machines in factories to send data through the sensors attached to them to the associated computer interfaces.
GE claims to be the first company to have done this, and it has made huge amounts of money doing so. [Read more…] about GE Digital to switch to Amazon and Microsoft instead of building its own data centres
Exclusive interview with Matt Wells, of GE Digital. By Abdul Montaqim
GE Digital is a subsidiary of General Electric, the quintessential American multinational corporate conglomerate with operations in more countries than the United Nations.
But far from being just one of its parent company’s dozen or so subsidiaries, GE Digital is something of a shooting star, outperforming many other subsidiaries to the point where it is informing, if not transforming, the entire culture and ethos of the company.
Nowadays, General Electric likes to be known as a “the world’s digital industrial company”, except they capitalise the words to emphasise the importance of the virtual realm. [Read more…] about The human factor: GE Digital automation boss hints at new directions for Predix
Not so long ago, computers were almost always in a business location – an accountant’s office, or something like that. But gradually, partly thanks to Apple iMac, the machines started making their way into homes in large numbers.
But there are still categories of computers which don’t really belong in the home, or at least weren’t designed for domestic bliss. If you can comfortably fit a supercomputer or a mainframe into your house, that’s probably enough domestic bliss for you anyway.
For most of us, desktop computers – or increasingly laptop computers – are just about all the space we can share, and the largest manufacturers of such poor-man’s systems were recently listed by Gartner.
Worldwide computer shipments in second quarter of 2016
[Read more…] about Manufacturing: A different type of industrial cloud
General Electric and Oracle have formed a strategic partnership focused on building what the companies claim will be a “first of its kind platform” for companies to “digitally connect every industrial asset in the world”.
Through this collaboration, GE Digital and Oracle will develop and integrate complementary solutions across their product portfolios. [Read more…] about General Electric and Oracle to ‘digitally connect every industrial asset in the world’
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