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 Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 8:00 am Post subject: GE's Radical Software Helps Jet Engines Fix Themselves |
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The vision of GE's new software system is to link all the company's diverse machines to the cloud, quantifying their performance and benchmarking them against each other-all in the name of eliminating the number one bugaboo of all these industries: unscheduled down time. Imagine an engineer walking up to a wind turbine with tablet in hand, and the turbine telling him that a fuse should be replaced not because it's broken but because it will give out in three weeks time. That's the future GE's really looking toward.
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