GE's Ruh says we are still in the early innings of harnessing the Industrial Internet's true potential
Here's an interesting post on the potential of the Industrial Internet at www.forbes.com by GE's VP and Global Technology Director,
Bill Ruh. He says the Industrial Internet is only starting to revolutionize how products are manufactured and electric power is generated. Says Ruh in this Forbes post, "With the Industrial Internet, everything from the biggest machines generating power to transformers on power poles can be connected to the Internet, providing status updates and performance data.
"From that, we can preemptively take action on a potential problem before it causes millions or billions of dollars of company and customer time. Additionally, field representatives will no longer ‘go see’ what the problem is before planning to fix, they will be able to anticipate what has gone wrong and be prepared with the parts to fix it."
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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.