Subscription 
GE to set up ‘Industrial Internet Centre of Excellence’ at IIT Madras- 18-May-2016
Chennai: GE announced plans to set up an Industrial Internet Centreof Excellence at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), one of the foremost institutes in higher technological education, to develop power intensive applications with the first focus on rolling out a Digital Twin of an AluminiumSmelter.
Through the new Centre, GE and IIT Madras will create a Digital Twin of a smelter. The Twin is a living digital model that will continuously generate new data and insights about the smelter that allows operators to run the smelters more efficiently. For the aluminium smelter industry, the net gains through such productivity enhancement are valued at between US$50 to 150 million annually.
Aluminium smelters are essentially refineries for extracting aluminum from aluminium oxide, separating the aluminium from oxygen through a chemical reaction.
The Industrial Internet Centreof Excellence marks a milestone global collaboration by GE to drive digital industrial transformation that can bring quantum leaps in productivity, efficiency and reliability to the industrial sector.Integrating heavy machinery with advanced software and analytics to create Digital Twins, the digital industrial solutions are powered by Predix, the world’s first and only cloud-based operating system built exclusively for industry.
No Comments Found!
Post Your Comments for the Article :
