Big Data and the industrial internet(GE)
Downtime of essential machinery can directly lead to loss of revenue, especially for a giant like GE. To help reduce downtime and losses, GE has installed sensors in machinery across every sector in which it operates. The data generated is analysed to provide information on how the machinery is operating and to monitor the effect of minor changes –like operating temperatures or fuel levels – on performance.
GE’s power turbines, aircraft engines and hospital scanners are allconstantly monitoring the conditions in which they operate. Each of the company’s 22,000 wind turbines is continually streaming operational data to the cloud, where GE analysts can tweak the direction and pitch of the blades to ensure as much energy is being captured as possible. Intelligent learning algorithms allow each individual turbine to adapt its behaviour to mimic other nearby turbines that are operating more efficiently.
These “Industrial Internet” capabilities have also been made available to customers who operate GE’s equipment and systems – power companies, airlines and so on – leading to potentially huge savings for those businesses. GE have indicated that their industrial customers can expect to save an average of $8 million per year from the reduction in machine downtime alone.
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