While GE is known for its jet engines and other industrial machines, different technologies such as Internet services and software are an increasingly important sector for the company.
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On Wednesday, GM announced that its year-long effort to close a deal with Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines Co. was dead, and it would begin to wind down Hummer operations.
Compete with the industrial machines.
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In one application, Siemens' Industry Automation division--a customer of ours for two years--is placing our chips into human-machine interfaces and programmable logic controls for industrial automation machines.
But it has only been in the past two years or so that the combination of computing and networking technologies became inexpensive enough to be cost-effective on industrial sewing machines.
At Century's Standard Textile factory, a partnership with the Israeli textile company Delta Galil, 300 women sit at industrial sewing machines making 14, 000 panties and undershirts a day for major U.S. brands, including Victoria's Secret and J.
Pyrolising stoves are easy to construct and available models range from the portable to industrial-scale machines costing tens of thousands of dollars.
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Already Nanogate is extending its technology to industrial uses to keep machines and engines running cleanly and efficiently to eliminate downtime.
Before the business machines of the industrial age, technology was all about more comfort and efficiency in the home.
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With the Industrial Internet, everything from the biggest machines generating power to transformers on power poles can be connected to the Internet, providing status updates and performance data.
Industrial Internet: Pushing the Boundaries of Minds and Machines, from GE.
The trend from the industrial revolution onwards has been to replace humans with more efficient machines.
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The rise of the machines has become so pervasive that many are proclaiming a new industrial revolution, the main difference, of course, being that now even highly educated knowledge workers are getting displaced.
Indeed, the Industrial Revolution itself (since 1750) entails the near-incessant introduction of new machines, factories, technologies, energies and transportation-communication systems all of which saved physical labor and made skilled labor more productive (thus better paid), and coincided with massive growth in all kinds of jobs, including in services, intellectual fields and in the invention, design and creation of new technologies.
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The independently owned hotel with 197 rooms describes its style as "industrial chic" with furnishings related to its history, such as desks inspired by vintage sewing machines and coffee tables that resemble old factory carts.
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