General Electric Company (GE)

GE Additive

GE Additive is a business unit of multinational conglomerate GE founded in 2016 following the acquisition of two 3D printing equipment manufacturers, Arcam AB and Concept Laser, as well as Arcam AB's subsidiary organisations, metal powder manufacturer AP&C (Advanced Powders & Coatings).

Record Tall Wind Turbine Towers with 3D Printed Concrete Bases

GE Renewable Energy, COBOD and LafargeHolcim will partner to co-develop wind turbines with optimized 3D printed concrete bases, reaching record heights up to 200 meters.

Desktop Metal

Desktop Metal is providing affordable high-throughput additive manufacturing solutions. IDTechEx spoke with Arjun Aggarwal (VP of Business Development & Product).

Optomec

Optomec is a capital equipment manufacturer based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They offer two products: Aerosol Jet and a laser based Direct Energy Deposition (DED) system for 3D printing metals named LENS. This profile focuses on the aerosol jet printer, and its applications in printed electronics.

Helio

Helio is focused on perovskite quantum dot or similar materials aimed at display applications.

Quantib

Quantib's software is able to detect abnormalities that radiologists can't see with the naked eye. The company makes all the information captured in medical images available to radiologists, so they can detect diseases before symptoms start showing. The AI algorithms developed by Quantib help to identify specific brain disorders months before radiologists could perceive them using conventional methods.

Metal Additive Manufacturing Keeps Getting Bigger

The adoption of metal additive manufacturing is progressing in numerous sectors, with notable use-cases and success stories appearing. The next-generation Sapphire® machine from VELO3D will print up to 1 meter in height, making it the world's tallest laser-powder additive manufacturing system

Routes to 3D Electronics: Assessment of Technologies and Applications

Metallization of 3D surfaces is a growing field with diverse applications. In this article, we briefly discuss some techniques and applications thereof. More specifically, we discuss and critically benchmark laser direct structuring, aerosol, 3D printed electronics, two-shot molding and In-Mold Electronics.

GE's PV Inverter Technology to Support Solar Grid Integration

GE Research has been awarded $4.2 million in funding from the US Department of Energy Solar Energy to help develop and deploy advanced grid-forming photovoltaic inverter control technologies that can reliably support higher amounts of solar power on the grid. This work keeps pace with the nation's changing electric grid system, which is getting more energy from distributed and renewable sources.

Ford Helping to 3D Print Respirators, Ventilators

Ford Motor Company, joining forces with firms including 3M and GE Healthcare, is lending its manufacturing and engineering expertise to quickly expand production of urgently needed medical equipment and supplies for healthcare workers, first responders and patients fighting coronavirus.

Titomic Appoints Sales and Distribution Partner in Turkey

Australian industrial scale metal additive manufacturing company Titomic is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Turkish-based BTech Innovation to be Titomic's authorised distributor of Titomic Kinetic Fusion systems and metal powders into Turkey.

Wearables Pivot to Healthcare, Printed Electronics Wins

Healthcare Sensor Innovations 2020, hosted in San Jose on March 17-18, identifies and assesses the opportunities for printed and flexible electronics in healthcare as the technology enables a new wave of medical wearable devices.

Enabling Point of Care Diagnostics and Continuous Monitoring

Healthcare Sensor Innovations North America debut on Marc, 17-18, 2020 in San Jose, USA will focus on the latest developments in the use of wearables and sensors in point of care diagnostics and continuous monitoring.

VestasStill Rules Turbine Market, But Challengers are Closing in

Developers commissioned almost 61GW of wind turbines globally in 2019, compared with 50GW in the previous year. Most of these were on land (88%) but the share of turbines installed offshore is growing, up four percentage points to 12%. Just four manufacturers accounted for more than half, or 55%, of the machines deployed: Denmark's Vestas, Spain's Siemens Gamesa, China's Goldwind, and General Electric of the US.

Keynote Speakers Announced for Healthcare Sensor Innovations USA 2020

The Healthcare Sensor Innovations conference will focus on the latest developments in the use of wearables and sensors in continuous monitoring of individuals and point-of-care diagnostics.

Solid-State Automotive Lidar: Commercializing Photonic Beam Steering?

What does it take to commercialize photonic beam steering?

Construction on World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm has Begun

Construction on the world's largest offshore wind farm has taken place this week near the coastal village of Ulrome, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

2AI - Applied Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

2AI pursues research on fundamental advances in AI for the development of technically innovative solutions. IDTechEx spoke to members of 2AI involved in the development of LaserNAVI, a collaborative robot for patient-specific laser treatment of vascular lesions.

Solid-state automotive lidar: commercializing photonic beam steering

What does it take to commercialize photonic beam steering?

First Wind Turbine to Generate 262 MWh of Clean Energy in 24 Hours

Eneco, Future Wind and GE Renewable Energy today announced that Eneco will purchase all of the electricity generated by GE's Haliade-X 12 MW prototype. The prototype set a new world record by being the first wind turbine ever to generate 262 MWh of clean energy in 24 hours, enough energy to power 30,000 households in the region.