At a General Electric factory in Schenectady, N.Y., tens of thousands of tiny sensors are quietly collecting data about each step in the manufacturing of a battery.
The sensors know, for instance, how humid the factory floor was on a certain production day, and exactly how much pressure a machine applied to a particular battery component. If polymer parts come out slightly thicker one day compared with another, sensors communicate this to the operator, who can examine stats from the two days.
The company is gathering this data so it can improve its factories, determining which conditions — down to the surrounding temperature — are associated with the best products. GE is also trying to realize chief executive Jeff Immelt’s vision of the “brilliant factory”: a dynamic system in which machine parts constantly relay information to operators, who can schedule maintenance before equipment fails, all the while improving the manufacturing process. GE soon plans to use 3-D printers in new factories to customize and print new components, such as metal jet engine parts or plastic tools.
This is GE’s version of the “Internet of Things,” a term often applied to a connected network of smartphones and home appliances; GE executives call it the “Industrial Internet.”
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