Additive Manufacturing

WE'RE PRINTING THE FUTURE.

Additive Manufacturing will break conventional constraints in design and manufacturing and enable significant improvements in GE’s product capabilities. GE is unleashing this potential through our unique position at the intersection of materials development, advanced design rules and process and machine engineering on Brilliant Factory floors.

Introducing Additive Manufacturing at GE Global Research

CMC

BREAKTHROUGH MATERIALS

CMCs — Ceramic Matrix Composites — are a revolutionary material invented by GE scientists that offer game-changing possibilities for technologies like aircraft engines and gas turbines. What’s so innovative about CMCs is that they can be made as strong as metal, yet are much lighter and can withstand much higher temperatures. These advantages will help us lower fuel burn and emissions, while increasing the efficiency of future GE aircraft engine platforms.

Novel CMC technology revolutionizes aircraft engines, turbines

Ceramic Matrix Composites Improve Engine Efficiency

Robotics

SENSE.THINK.ACT.

We envision a world where service robots work with and for us, shoulder-to-shoulder and over long distances, to address dull, dirty and dangerous work. Service robots are the next great industrial tool – a tool that will amplify our capabilities and allow us to safely operate faster, in places we could never go and with cognitive and physical capabilities we have never imagined.

Invention Factory: How Will Robots Evolve?

Artificial Intelligence

CONTINUOUSLY LEARNING TO CREATE BETTER OUTCOMES

Global Research is building artificial intelligence for the industrial world with a special ocus on imaging. By leaning into GE’s Digital Twin strategy, we have the perfect framework to define digital industrial AI. Digital Twins think and reason, imagining millions of future scenarios through digital simulations and selecting the best actions to create the best outcomes. Creating the Artificial Intelligence for the Digital Twin to see what the human sees is very powerful, creating the foundation for intelligent discussions between Twins and experts, accelerating productivity.

Machine Nirvana: How GE Is Using AI To Build A Powerhouse Of Knowledge

Silicon Carbide

THE POWER REVOLUTION IS UNDERWAY

GE is launching the next power electronics revolution by replacing Silicon (Si) with Silicon Carbide (SiC) power devices. While Si has been the material of choice for the past six decades, SiC-based power devices can operate at higher temperatures, higher voltages and higher switching frequencies, delivering greater power converter efficiency, smaller size and improved power quality.

The Building Blocks of Silicon Carbide, a Rising Star

Silicon Carbide Applications: Small Device, Broad Impact in Power Electronics

Edge Controls

ACTING ON INSIGHTS

We are creating software defined edge controllers, the edge ecosystem and outcome optimizer apps. This is accomplished through novel real-time edge compute solutions, cyber security, dynamic Digital Twin modeling, optimization and connectivity.

Digital Twin

OUR TWINS ARE LIFETIME LEARNING SYSTEMS

Digital Twins are dynamic digital representations of assets and the systems that use them, paired to learn and provide insights for a lifetime. The Digital Twin provides insights and outcomes about the system performance and operation to help optimize business decisions such as scheduling, work scope, capacity management, inventory, cash, customer asset utilization and variable operating expense.

Meet the Digital Twin (Colin @ M+M)