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With Meridium comes manufacturing customers
Georgia Pacific, Kimberly Clark, McCain Foods and West Rock. Its APM software is deployed at 1200 customer sites in 80 countries Meridium is gaining GE’s considerable experience with manufacturing operations data—and slicing and dicing it for central monitoring and diagnostics and predictive mainte- nance. “We manufacture everywhere,” with about 450 factories around the world, Bell noted. Acquisitions like that of Virginia- based Meridium are “very important” for GE’s digital division going forward, he said. “We have established an over- all strategy and a platform. And we see innovation happening everywhere. We will tap into many of these innovations by investments, as well as through our ecosystem. We have a lot of partners. We’ll resell their solutions, and they will build on top of our platform. That’s how we see innovation growing, and that’s how we will be able to meet the demands of our customers.” While GE is based in the US, it does
more business abroad, Bell noted. “We have a huge presence here in
Europe, and growing countries like India and China are major markets for us,” he added Of course, GE wants to fix manu-
facturing problems with solutions that transfer between as many coun- tries as possible.
Will doing good lure workers? In the US, GE and other manufac-
turers struggle with access to talent, Bell acknowledged, noting the com- pany’s comedic TV ads are one effort to become as attractive as Internet and autonomous car concerns are to young skilled workers. He hopes young people will soon
understand just how much socially con- scious work GE and other manufactur- ers can do—via smart manufacturing.
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“The industrial world is digitally less mature than all of the other industries,” like banking and entertainment, Bell acknowledged. “So far, we have not proven the case of why people have not come to work in the industrial world. We have to create awareness about the huge op- portunity in manufacturing. If you are ‘digital talent,’ you
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