In a Maintenance Minute: Apple iOS app update and Android version launched
GE Aviation's Maintenance Minute videos provide engine maintainers on-demand general engine maintenance tips and best practice video tutorials via YouTube or the Maintenance Minute app.
New GE plant seeks to narrow manufacturing skills gap
After creating eight factories across the U.S. over the past decade, GE Aviation is working to narrow the “skills gap” facing many young Americans seeking jobs in today’s advanced manufacturing plants.
GE Aviation’s Quick Six with Michael Eilers
In our next installment of Quick Six, The Bike Shop sat down with Michael Eilers, a Digital Thread leader at GE Aviation in Cincinnati, Ohio. GE Aviation is proud to announce that Michael Eilers made the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Manufacturing & Industry for his work on Digital Thread!
An App for that? GE Aviation and Boston University team up to go digital
A unique collaboration between GE Aviation and Boston University aims to generate digital and manufacturing solutions for GE while exposing college students to real-world technology and industry experience.
Manufacturing brilliance: Showcasing GE's next-gen manufacturing efforts
Two of GE Aviation’s new U.S. factories in Lafayette, Indiana; and Asheville, North Carolina; were recently part of media events highlighting the innovative technologies at both operations.
GE Aviation building U.S. blueprint to industrialize CMCs
GE Aviation is on the final phase to create its most vertically integrated, new material system ever introduced in the United States. By 2020, GE Aviation is projected to have more than 750 U.S. employees dedicated to its CMC industry.
Going digital: How a century-old company is transforming its culture for a digital age
Want to know the cultural formula of a Digital Industrial company? Ask Jen Maslar, a self-proclaimed culture servant.
At the Heli-core: Avio Aero delivers first transmission kit to Airbus Helicopters
The first transmission kit for Airbus’ new generation of helicopters has been delivered by Avio Aero, a GE Aviation business.
The magnitude of manufacturing in the GEnx
It takes more than a village to build a jet engine. In fact, it takes six countries, 12 states and 21 GE manufacturing sites providing 1.1 million total parts to form one GEnx jet engine. With more than 1,600 GEnx-1B engines sold worldwide, that means 1.76 billion parts come together to form the fastest-selling, high-thrust jet engine in GE Aviation history.
Brilliant By Design
Lean manufacturing meets brilliant technologies at GE Aviation's plant in Muskegon, MI. Rapid prototyping with 3D printing, advanced drilling techniques and real-time machine analytics are just a few ways these employees are able to tackle GE's record backlog of engines.