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Realization of the Digital Thread. Employ data and analytics across
the complete product life cycle. Optimize efficiency, from design to
manufacturing, operations and maintenance to service in a closed loop.
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Next generation software to connect machines, people, material, and
processes for a new breed of data driven digital industrial
manufacturers.
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Enhanced manufacturing analytics reduce production losses, improve
quality, ensure efficient use of people and materials, and manage
production execution for flexibility, repeatability and consistency.
GE (NYSE: GE) today announced the next version of its Brilliant
Manufacturing Suite at its fourth annual Minds + Machines conference.
Field-tested and optimized within GE’s own factories, the suite
maximizes manufacturing production performance through advanced
real-time analytics to enable all manufacturers to realize GE’s
Brilliant Factory vision.
“Today’s demands on manufacturers are driving an unprecedented rate of
change, innovation and agility,” said Jennifer Bennett, General Manager
for GE Digital’s Manufacturing Software initiatives. “Manufacturers are
challenged to decide what to build, how to build it, where and when to
build it, and how to efficiently maintain it. We believe that the key to
optimizing the full product life cycle from design to service is through
analytics of data that has been traditionally locked inside corporate
silos.”
GE’s Brilliant Manufacturing Suite allows customers to begin to realize
their own vision of a Brilliant Factory. Integrating and aggregating
data from design to service and leveraging analytics to support optimal
decision-making allows manufacturers to drive improvements in end-to-end
production. Analyzing data in context and providing the right
information at the right time allows for better decision support
throughout the manufacturing process. Data-driven analytics encompassing
machines, material, people and process will transform the factories of
today into Brilliant Factories.
GE’s next generation Brilliant Manufacturing Suite includes:
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OEE Performance Analyzer - available for early access today, it
transforms real-time machine data into actionable production
efficiency metrics so that Plant Managers can reduce unplanned
downtime, maximize yield and increase equipment utilization.
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Production Execution Supervisor - digitizes orders, process steps,
instructions and documentation with information pulled directly from
ERP and PLM systems. Factories are able to ship higher quality
products and deliver new product introductions faster by getting the
right information in the right hands to focus on the highest priority
manufacturing tasks.
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Production Quality Analyzer - real-time identification of quality data
boundaries that catch non-conforming events before they occur. Quality
engineers can analyze this information to identify patterns and trends
that enable factories to ship higher quality products faster.
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Product Genealogy Manager - builds a record of all personnel,
equipment, raw materials, sub-assemblies and tools used to produce
finished goods. Service personnel can respond to customer and
regulatory inquiries with confidence, knowing who, what, when, where
and how for an individual shipment.
“Our Brilliant Factory capabilities provide process and production data
when and where we need it, accelerating our learning and significantly
decreasing time to issue resolution,” said James Czelusniak, Brilliant
Factory Optimization Leader, GE Power & Water.
GE’s industrial strength Brilliant Manufacturing Suite leverages GE’s
Predix platform for edge-to-cloud connectivity, security and
manufacturing analytics. Best-of-breed Predix capabilities are extended
with a rich partner ecosystem that includes Cisco and PTC. Together,
these solutions implement GE’s Brilliant Manufacturing Suite.
“In the past, manufacturers may have instrumented a critical piece of
equipment or optimized one aspect of the manufacturing process,”
continued Bennett. “However, what we have learned is that connecting
information upstream and downstream is critical when optimizing the
factory. It is important to create a repeatable, consistent and cost
effective approach to connecting machines thereby providing the
visibility necessary to form the foundation of the Digital Thread across
the complete enterprise where projects flex with business changes and
priorities.”
“GE’s Brilliant Manufacturing Suite has enabled significant reduction in
unplanned machine downtime resulting in higher plant efficiency,” said
Bryce Poland, Advanced Manufacturing Brilliant Factory Leader, GE
Transportation. “As part of our Digital Thread strategy, we will
increase our machines and materials connectivity by 400% in 2016.”
GE’s Brilliant Manufacturing Suite can be delivered through flexible
deployment and software as a service delivery models to reduce Capex and
minimize OpEx investment.
Customers can get connected with GE’s Brilliant Manufacturing Suite
today by visiting here.
For more information about Predix, click here.
About GE
GE (NYSE: GE) is the world’s Digital Industrial Company, transforming
industry with software-defined machines and solutions that
are connected, responsive and predictive. GE is organized around a
global exchange of knowledge, the "GE Store," through which each
business shares and accesses the same technology, markets, structure and
intellect. Each invention further fuels innovation and application
across our industrial sectors. With people, services, technology and
scale, GE delivers better outcomes for customers by speaking the
language of industry. www.ge.com.
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