General Electric has teamed up with Local Motors to develop a new approach to production for companies in the manufacturing industry. Through the FirstBuild open platform, the partnership plans to mine ideas from designers, builders, makers and other enthusiasts for new technologies and products, GE said Thursday. GE says those ideas will then be built, […] More

The Energy Department has offered grants to help several technology organizations develop software products, sensors and predictive algorithms for managing the performance of lithium-ion batteries, Gigacom reported Wednesday. Katie Fehrenbacher writes Battelle designed an optical sensor that aims to detect internal battery faults, while General Electric built a miniaturized system to monitor battery pressure and […] More

Stephanie Payne has been appointed to serve as the director of human resources for the aerospace group at Eaton. Payne will report directly to Nate Manning, vice president and general manager of Eaton’s fluid and electrical distribution division, the company announced Tuesday. “Stephanie’s experience in compensation, employee relations and recruitment combined with her human resources generalist background make […] More

GE Digital Energy has teamed up with asset management software provider Meridium to provide utility customers with an offering to view and manage their assets and distribution network. The GE business unit will integrate distribution management software Smallworld Electric and Gas Distribution Office with Meridium’s asset performance management system to monitor asset health and functionality, […] More

General Electric has been chosen to provide power generation equipment to a plant that supplies electricity to households and businesses in the city of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is re-powering the Scattergood generating station in El Segundo, Calif. and picked GE’s combustion turbines and distributed control system to replace […] More

General Electric‘s intelligent platforms business has unveiled enhancements to its suite of software applications for managing plant operations. Proficy manufacturing apps are designed to help manufacturers handle customer orders as well as track marketing and technical processes throughout a production facility, GE Intelligent Platforms said Monday. The subsidiary launched an updated Proficy offering Monday at […] More

Sidra Berman, most recently head of market management operations at Savi Technology, has been promoted to serve as the company’s vice president of marketing. She will report directly to President and CEO Bill Clark and have responsibility for implementing strategies to help the company expand into new markets and build brand awareness, Savi said Wednesday. […] More

Intel and General Electric‘s joint healthcare venture and Mississippi’s government have partnered to offer telemedicine services to people with diabetes in underserved communities. The Diabetes Telehealth Network includes Intel-GE Care Innovations, C Spire, GE Healthcare, the North Sunflower Medical Center and University of Mississippi Medical Center, the university said Thursday. Gov. Phil Bryant said this […] More

General Electric Co. has moved to grow its smart grid services customer base by adding new municipal and rural utilities clients for the subscription-based offering, Greentech Media reported Thursday. Jeff St. John writes at least six more customers have subscribed to GE’s Grid IQ solutions-as-a-service unit in addition to existing clients such as the municipal […] More

General Electric Co. has moved to strengthen its industrial Internet strategy by agreeing to buy healthcare management software and analytics provider API Healthcare for an undisclosed amount. API Healthcare’s offerings will be integrated into GE Healthcare’s hospital operations management services for hospitals to access operational data in real time, said Tuesday. Michael Swinford, president and CEO […] More

Tim Dowd, formerly a director at rapid drug-testing company eScreen, has joined Irvine, Calif.-based Accurate Background’s board of directors. Prior to his appointment, Dowd served on the eScreen board from 2008 to 2012, a period that saw the business record a twofold revenue and threefold EBITDA increase, Accurate Background said Tuesday. Dowd currently serves as president […] More

General Electric‘s intelligent platforms business has won a contract to provide the U.S. Air Force an embedded neuromorphic computing platform for use in wide-area surveillance applications, Military Aerospace & Electronics reported Thursday. The publication reports the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate in Rome, N.Y. selected a GE infrastructure that mimics human’s neuro-biological actions in […] More