INSIGHT
GE DIGITAL IS the digital arm of the American multinational conglomerate General Electric . Founded in 2015 to take advantage of the industrial internet , much like its parent did with the electrical revolution in the 20th century , GE Digital is creating new business models using connected software and applications to make companies work faster and more efficiently .
GE Digital works with many of the organisations General Electric has been engaged with over the years , across literally every major industry including telecoms , consumer goods , automotive , gas and power . Its aim is to drive digital transformation across all these sectors . However , digitising businesses isn ’ t just about computerising operations , it ’ s also about using renewable energy sources , which will lower costs while yielding higher financial gains ; results that ultimately benefit the planet too .
Deborah Sherry , General Manager and Chief Commercial Officer at GE Digital Europe , explains how it ’ s helping the companies find these solutions . “ We achieve all this by introducing equipment health asset performance management and by driving service delivery improvement through our field services software . We are building incredible software which replicate people ’ s equipment , called the ‘ digital twin ’. We do all of this on the premises , on the client ’ s equipment or on the cloud , depending on the context or the need . We ’ ve built all this specifically to drive the next wave of productivity gain within the industry .”
“ WE ARE BUILDING INCREDIBLE SOFTWARE WHICH REPLICATES PEOPLE ’ S EQUIPMENT , CALLED THE ‘ DIGITAL TWIN ’”
– Deborah Sherry , General Manager and Chief Commercial Officer , GE Digital Europe
Around eight years ago , GE Digital ’ s CEO and Chairman Jeffrey Immelt started looking at what big digital players like Google , Amazon and Microsoft were doing to work out where the next wave of productivity and gain would come from . “ He became particularly interested in this because he noticed that other people were extracting data from
10 October 2017