Today marks the start of GE’s Intelligent Platforms User Summit: Making the Industrial Internet Real (NYSE: GE) at the Wyndham Grand Orlando Resort Bonnet Creek in Orlando, Oct. 27 -30, 2014. This sold-out event features more than 50 presentations from GE’s global customer base and will be headlined by GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt talking about how the Industrial Internet is changing business today.
More than 650 attendees to this three-day event will hear from executives from leading global manufacturing and industrial companies such as AkzoNobel, ConocoPhillips, and Delta Air Lines, as well as CIOs from GE’s industrial businesses: GE Transportation, GE Lighting, GE Aviation and GE Nuclear. Sessions will highlight topics such as The Smart Manufacturing Model, The Virtualization of Control, Getting the Right Information to the Right People, and Leadership in the Industrial Internet.
“This week, we have the pleasure of hearing how, collectively, we are ‘Making the Industrial Internet Real’,” said Jim Walsh, General Manager for Intelligent Platforms. “Representatives from companies around the world will share their experiences -- their triumphs and their lessons learned. We are excited to share the investments we’re making in our Industrial Internet-enabled solutions and the latest technology we’re developing to help improve efficiencies and operations. Attendees will see how new ecosystems of connected machines, advanced analytics, and people at work have the potential to truly optimize business performance.”
用户峰会还将举办一场技术博览会，其中包括GE及其合作伙伴的解决方案，这些解决方案正在为当今的公司提供工业互联网。在新方法的会议中也将有示威，使愿景进一步进一步。与会者将有机会看到GE的一些突破性预测性解决方案，例如最近宣布的设备Insight，这是一种在云中运行的OEM解决方案。
Customers today are looking at the challenges and opportunities surrounding the vast amount of data that their assets are producing. They are searching for solutions that can help them make the leap into the world of Industrial Big Data and Predictive Analytics so they can harness this data for business success. The GE/Accenture “Industrial Internet Insights Report,” released at GE’s Minds + Machines, held October 9 in New York, includes data about topics that will be covered at the Summit:
- 在八个工业部门进行调查的高管中，有三分之二（66％）认为，如果他们不采用大数据，他们可能会在未来一到三年中失去市场地位，该报告表明，这是需要支持其工业互联网战略的报告。
- Nearly half (49 percent) of the companies represented in the study said they plan to create new business opportunities that could generate additional revenue streams with their big data strategy while 60% expect to increase their profitability by using the information to improve their resource management.
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