GE's Automation & Controls

As one of the world’s largest OEMs, GE has successfully addressed the challenges of optimizing productivity with innovative connected control systems that increase flexibility, decrease risk and increase profitability across all of their businesses.
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GE’s Automation and Control solutions optimize assets and equipment for today’s connected industries. With solutions such as computing and control platforms, operator interface and HMI, future-proof hardware, pre-engineered systems, and real-time operational intelligence, GE is connecting machines, data and people for better, faster, safer and more reliable performance. GE Industrial Internet-enabled solutions provide the foundation to collect data from assets and processes so that it can be leveraged for actionable insight and increased profitability.

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GE’s Automation and Controls platform combines what was formerly known as GE Intelligent Platforms and Alstom’s Power Automation & Controls. GE’s Automation and Control solutions optimize assets and equipment for today’s connected industries. With solutions such as computing and control platforms, operator interface and HMI, future-proof hardware, pre-engineered systems, and real-time operational intelligence, GE connects machines, data and people for better, faster, safer and more reliable performance. GE Industrial Internet-enabled solutions provide the foundation to collect data from assets and processes so that it can be leveraged for actionable insight and increased profitability.

A Foundation for Success

Connecting machine level data with networked sensors and software is critical to keeping pace with rapid growth and maintaining a competitive edge. It requires high-performance computing technology that is rugged, flexible and upgradable. To help businesses compete in today’s connected business environment, GE has designed a simplified automation architecture to support machines and plants with increased value and decreased complexity, redefining the way that engineers and operators interact with and manage equipment assets.

GE’s Automation & Controls portfolio includes mission critical power and cooling solutions, distributed control systems, remote monitoring & diagnostics, and comprehensive support services including the design and commissioning of pre-engineered systems. Industries served include OEMs, power, oil and gas, manufacturing, military and aerospace, mining and metals, telecommunications, and water and wastewater industries.

A Trusted Partner

GE is a leading provider of pre-engineered distributed control systems for power plants worldwide. Partnering with the customer to understand challenges and project goals is GE’s top priority in every system implementation. GE’s extensive involvement in engineering and execution not only ensures that installation is carried out safely and efficiently but also that support is available throughout every phase of the system life cycle, from design and implementation to asset management and long-term services.

Security is of increasing importance for today’s connected industries. GE’s secure control solutions boost productivity, maintain system availability, and protect valuable operational information and customer data. Customers look to GE to help protect their system investments, reduce operational risk, protect the environment, and maintain their customers’ trust.

With a commitment to maintaining the integrity, availability, and confidentiality of system data, GE collaborates with industry working groups, standards bodies, government agencies, and the research community to continually improve the security of industrial control systems and global infrastructure.

To learn more about how GE’s Automation & Control solutions solve today's toughest industrial challenges, visit www.geautomation.com

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Videos

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The FlexEfficiency 60 Bus Tour rolled through Chicago in late October and Jim Donohue, PE Manager, Heavy Duty Gas Turbine, provided an overview of the new FlexEfficiency 60 portfolio...
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Blogs

Equipment Insight 2018
The next phase of GE’s Industrial Internet Control System provides increased flexibility in edge control and analytics through an open controller and remote monitoring platform...
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Clarifying the Linux Real Time Issue
An Automation World reader voices legitimate concerns about the use of Linux in mission-critical applications.
April 24, 2018
Why is Linux Trending?
Without a lot of fanfare, the use of Linux in automation has been gaining significant ground due to its openness and flexibility. Its common IT programming languages add to its...
April 10, 2018
GE and SEW-Eurodrive Launch Partnership
The partnership centers on the integration of SEW-Eurodrive variable frequency drives into GE Automation & Controls' PACMotion product line, but that appears to be just the beginning...
March 1, 2018
Industrial Computing for the Edge
With more data processing taking place at the machine level—on the edge of the industrial network—GE is betting on greater use of modular, customizable industrial PCs.
March 28, 2017
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During a panel discussion at PI North America’s general meeting, industry experts talked about how the Industrial Internet of Things is affecting the needed skillsets, tools and...
Dec. 6, 2016
Cutting Decades Out of the Optimization Curve
GE’s goal of transforming itself from an industrial company into a software and analytics company becomes clearer as the company positions itself around the new Predix System....
Nov. 29, 2016
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Referencing the next step in its digital industry journey, GE has launched the Industrial Internet Control System—rethinking what it means to be a controller.
Oct. 3, 2016
Will Controllers Become Part of Edge Nodes?
From Ethernet-enabled sensors to mobile HMIs, long-standing automation devices are changing rapidly with Internet of Things-related technology advances. Are controllers—once the...
March 8, 2016
Remote Asset Management Trend Accelerates
Having emerged as the most readily applicable Industrial Internet of Things implementation with a near-term quantifiable return on investment, remote asset management has been...
Dec. 22, 2015

Articles

GE Orients Predix Strategy Around Key Verticals
There’s been plenty of news about GE’s direction under new CEO John Flannery. At the company’s Minds + Machines event, Flannery spotlighted the new strategy around Predix.
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March 17, 2017
Robots Get Ready to Take on New Challenges
Taking advantage of progress made in robotics in other fields, manufacturers are coming up with new ways to use the technology in industrial applications. Advances in healthcare...
Feb. 11, 2016
Like commercial IT centers before them, the computing power behind today’s factories and processing plants is embracing virtuali
Like commercial IT centers before them, the computing power behind today’s factories and processing plants is embracing virtualization as security and cloud computing gain importance...
Nov. 25, 2015
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An exclusive Automation World survey reveals the smartphone and tablet apps manufacturers are using today to more easily do their jobs.
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Honeywell One Wireless mobile station
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CNPC to Install GE Cogeneration Systems to Provide Beijing Data Center with Critical Power Supply.
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Driving the Digital Manufacturing Transformation
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Alliance to Foster Internet of Things Interoperability
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Industrial Internet Journey Begins with Asset Management
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Feb. 13, 2014
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Changing the Manufacturing Business Model
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