A:It is. I think people think the talent is different in IT versus product. Its not. I think great companies find that these things should be integrated, you want to continue to develop your people together–theyre better together.
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A:We have a different perspective on this. You dont walk into a mayors office and say, I have a smart city, would you like to buy one? My personal opinion is that we are misunderstanding what a smart city is. Smart cities have been happening for a long time. Its a great marketing term, but the reality is that the intelligence is occurring in the systems that weve always had. The water departments are buying more autonomous systems; the energy groups are buying more energy. The buying centers were always there; theres no new buying center for a smart city. The concept of smart cities making our cities more efficient is the same concept as autonomous vehicles.
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So there was a gap in the company, so we spent a few years figuring out whats the real value here. We realized that you could come up with a whole new set of outcomes for your customers based on the use of data and analytics. The second thing is that an industrial firm has great domain knowledge, and unlocking that domain knowledge for the analytics is the differentiator.
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What is changing in many of these organizations is the ability to manage the city horizontally–the ability to finally get information and connect things that werent connected before because they operated in siloed infrastructures. Thats the new thing in these environments.
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The man in charge of all of this is Bill Ruh, CEO of GE Digital and the Chief Digital Officer for GE. GE Digital supports customers globally with a wide range of industrial internet applications, from asset performance management, operations optimization and brilliant manufacturing to platform-as-a-service, cloud and cyber security. As the CDO, Ruh is responsible for global IT as well as creating GEs Digital Thread a next-generation system for streamlining design, manufacturing and support processes.
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GE Digital on July 25–two years after the launch of Predix–will unveil a new development tool suite called Predix Studio, which GE Digital customers can use to create something called Digital Twins and customize applications that run on Predix. eWEEK will carry that news story; Digital Twins are described in this article.
For an industrial company, this is the hardest thing, because they dont have digital DNA. They have IT, but not digital DNA.
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This ability for every machine, biological or mechanical, to be able to have a Digital Twin, thats the magic that moves it away from general machine learning and into delivering outcomes that are unique for an individual machine.
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The answer is: We dont talk about selling smart cities; we talk about selling smart infrastructure projects. Smart cities are happening around the world because the traditional buying centers are buying that capability. By the way, thats been going on for 100 years.
Like all enterprises large or small, GE has had to change with the times or else fade into oblivion, which has been the fate of many a formerly successful company. In the second decade of the new century, the company is facing a pivot by adding machine learning and artificial intelligence software to its steady long-term production of industrial hardware and professional services.
A:General machine learning has a place, but how do you turn it into something of value? For us, that value is utilizing that technology, as well as simulation and modeling together. So we use machine learning, simulation and modeling to create what we call a Digital Twin. Machine learning is utilized to look at this vast volume of data thats being thrown off machines, and being collected, so we can look for patterns.
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A:We, like everyone else, looked at the IT function as a back-office function–the ERPs, run the business, make sure you had everybodys records correct, get billing done, and so on. Digital is a product-management process. You have to be thinking about how your product line of the future is going to look like. Mechanical engineers think of future functions as mechanically oriented but thinking of future functions as digitally oriented is very different. Now theres a gap: Your IT function isnt really set up to build digital product, but they oftentimes have great insight into the information that you can use. The traditional product guys are not set up to know what to do with information. They view it as take a look at it quickly, throw it away, youre done.
A:We launched the Predix portfolio about 18 months ago. The company went through three stages: Im here 6 years; Id say the first two years were exploratory strategy. Six years ago, our Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt could begin to see that analytics and data were becoming more and more an important part of our customers journey in using our machines. Meaning he could see they were exploring the use of information coming off machines we sell: jet aircraft engines, wind turbines, gas turbines for power plants, CT scanners and so on. Our customers had a strong desire to get more efficiency out of those machines. He recognized early on that if we didnt know more about our machines than anybody else, then shame on us, right?
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We think that youll be able to determine whether a part wil break hundreds of flights ahead of time. Everything then becomes normal maintenance. This is no unscheduled downtime. That is, we think, a game-changer for the world.
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In the future, I would say, every human will have their own Digital Twin. All the data we get from these medical machines, as well as from FitBits, et cetera, we can finally take and put it into something and allow that Digital Twin to say, Here are suggestions on how to eat, on how to exercise … oh, by the way, nows the time to go to the doctor.
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A:People are not going away, but they are going to have to get comfortable with the idea that the jobs that we did are going away, and that the jobs were going to do are going to be different. The real key here is that people are going to have to get much more comfortable with the idea that theyre going to need more math and science and tech skills. Those who do will find the transition very easy. Those who dont will find themselves very uncomfortable with the transition.
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For us, our strategy is simply this: Do it for ourself, which we call GE for GE–always first. And it turns out our customers love it, because they like to see that we do it. The second thing is: Do it for our existing customers, and then take it out to the broader industrial world.
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Theres a big difference between, say, Schindler Elevator as a customer and another company. At the trivial IoT level, it all sounds the same: connect machines, add in analytics, get results. But running it and getting value out of an elevator operation and doing it for DB Cargo, a big German transportation company–theyre doing the same thing, connecting machines, doing analytics–but those processes are very different. The value is in the custom analytics that take the domain knowledge that you have as a company and unlock it for your own value.
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Predix was born because we did it for ourselves, and theres a real opportunity to do it for our customers. Were a top 10 customer for almost every major vendor out there, so when you look at it, being a top 10 customer for yourself is an important thing.
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The future of autonomous vehicles, for example, isnt even the tip of the iceberg–its a snowflake on the iceberg. The real autonomouses are going to occur in the big industries: mining, rail, marine, energy, et cetera. Plants are all going to move to be more autonomous; it doesnt mean zero people, but it does mean people will be doing things to keep the autonomous nature of work moving.
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We used the second two years doing it (using Predix) for ourselves. It wasnt so much that we building Predix is that we were trying to understand: Could we get value out of data and analytics, and what do you need to be able to do it at scale? So we realized a couple of things out of that: One is that there didnt exist a platform for connecting industrial machines at scale, for building the kind of analytics that are necessary–which we call Digital Twins–and for being able to deliver outcomes to our customers around their processes.
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A:Today Id say thats true, and I think the reason why is because its all being invented as you go along. You cant underestimate the complexities of the processes that industrial firms deal with.
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The Digital Twin is the ability to see that somethings going to occur. And then its the ability to model out and do a million simulations, which cloud computing allows us to now do. It will tell you, Here is the most efficient way to deal with this situation. Thats what we see as a Digital Twin; youre building a model of a specific machine, constantly monitoring it, always looking to make it more efficient.
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There are some basic analytics that we are providing, but they often turn out to be anything but basic. Predictive maintenance is one we developed, because we have such a large variety of machines that you can begin to develop models, like for rotating machines. You can begin to predict failures in rotating machines in a more generic way.
So you very quickly find yourself deep into the kind of processes an organization has, and the machines they have, and how theyve connected in the way they do business. One steel plant is different than another steel plant; they both produce steel, but theres different hardware, different vintages, different processes–and theres even different varieties of steel products.
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We put together a business plan in that second phase, sold it inside the company, then created GE Digital (in 2015) as the business unit to take this forward. We did something unusual: We brought the IT function together with the digital function, creating a single integrated unit.
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