FEATURE: IOT
“We are the world’s digital industrial
company and our goal is to be one of
the top software companies in the
world by 2020.” Bill Ruh is CEO of GE
Digital and Chief Digital Officer GE.
GE’s initiative into the Industrial Internet of
Things and its cloud based Predix platform
have established a path for its vast industrial
customer base to follow and gain dividends.
“We are the world’s digital industrial company and our goal
is to be one of the top software companies in the world by
2020. At the heart of this organisation-wide transformation
is the immense opportunity we see in the Industrial Internet
of Things, the merging of industrial hardware with big data
and advanced analytics to achieve unprecedented levels of
productivity, efficiency and resource use optimisation for our
clients as well as our own operations,” elaborates Ruh.
Bill Ruh is CEO of GE Digital and Chief Digital Officer GE
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s the Chief Executive Officer of GE Digital and Chief
Digital Officer, Bill Ruh is responsible for internal and
external strategy regarding digital solutions, processes
and services. As the leader of GE Digital, Ruh is working with a
team to reimagine the industry’s infrastructure by connecting
software, applications and analytics to industrial businesses,
enabling them to operate more efficiently.
GE Digital supports its customers around the globe with a
broad range of Industrial Internet of Things applications,
including asset performance management, operations
optimisation solutions and cyber security. Ruh joined GE
in 2011 to establish the company’s digital and industrial
Internet strategy and has led the team in the development
of Predix and GE’s organic and inorganic growth in the
software industry.
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“In terms of solutions, we are now enabling our clients, in
the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey, to move beyond
automation into digital autonomous systems, driven by
industry-leading tools from our digital portfolio. We have
developed applications for the industry that drive value
for customers, such as Asset Performance Management
“Just 1% efficiency
gains could equate to
more than $150 billion
dollars saved annually
for industries like energy,
transportation and
healthcare.”
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