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Earlier this month, GE CEO Jeff Immelt and Intel CEO Brian Krzanich spoke at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco about their evolving partnership and the future of the Industrial Internet. As part of their comments, the two noted significant steps in the two companies’ plan to eventually offer GE’s Predix Industrial Internet software on Intel-powered devices.
Before approaching outside customers, Intel first wanted to be a Predix customer itself. The multi-million dollar deal to move parts of their Ocotillo semiconductor plant onto Predix is the first step. Intel’s ultimate goal is to utilize Predix on top of its own internal software and develop a joint offering with GE to streamline its fab processes around the world. GE will then roll out the solutions to GE’s more than 400 factories globally. The two companies also plan to sell a joint offering to other manufacturers that want to optimize their operations.
Once the system is in place, the Ocotillo plant will be using products from across the GE Digital portfolio. That includes Predix, OpShield, and the Brilliant Manufacturing and Asset Performance Management suites of solutions that run on the Predix cloud. This portfolio will integrate with Intel’s internal analytics engines, Intel-based hardware and Intel’s manufacturing infrastructure to analyze data in new ways.
The goal is to eventually get every industrial company that uses Intel chips — and most of them do — to connect their operations to Predix and start analyzing their operations in greater detail. GE’s objective is to embed Predix on every single Intel device with the customer just having to activate it.
An example of the GE-Intel partnership can be seen in GE’s Greenville, S.C. gas turbine factory. Intel sensors, attached to Current by GE light fixtures, send data to gateways, which aggregate the information and send it to the Predix cloud. The sensors measure the temperature of the air near the turbine collars as their rotors are attached, allowing factory workers to know when the part is cool enough to safely add the next rotor. By avoiding defects and eliminating the need to re-work parts, GE believes this new system can save the company hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Sensor-based lights will also be installed in Intel’s Santa Clara, Calif., headquarters complex, where 4,500 LED lights will feature energy-saving controls. Of those, about 1,000 will also have the ability to sense occupancy, allowing facilities managers, for instance, to program lights to turn off lights when no one is in a room. This pilot is expected to be the first of several at Intel facilities.
Before approaching outside customers, Intel first wanted to be a Predix customer itself. The multi-million dollar deal to move parts of their Ocotillo semiconductor plant onto Predix is the first step. Intel’s ultimate goal is to utilize Predix on top of its own internal software and develop a joint offering with GE to streamline its fab processes around the world. GE will then roll out the solutions to GE’s more than 400 factories globally. The two companies also plan to sell a joint offering to other manufacturers that want to optimize their operations.
Once the system is in place, the Ocotillo plant will be using products from across the GE Digital portfolio. That includes Predix, OpShield, and the Brilliant Manufacturing and Asset Performance Management suites of solutions that run on the Predix cloud. This portfolio will integrate with Intel’s internal analytics engines, Intel-based hardware and Intel’s manufacturing infrastructure to analyze data in new ways.
The goal is to eventually get every industrial company that uses Intel chips — and most of them do — to connect their operations to Predix and start analyzing their operations in greater detail. GE’s objective is to embed Predix on every single Intel device with the customer just having to activate it.
An example of the GE-Intel partnership can be seen in GE’s Greenville, S.C. gas turbine factory. Intel sensors, attached to Current by GE light fixtures, send data to gateways, which aggregate the information and send it to the Predix cloud. The sensors measure the temperature of the air near the turbine collars as their rotors are attached, allowing factory workers to know when the part is cool enough to safely add the next rotor. By avoiding defects and eliminating the need to re-work parts, GE believes this new system can save the company hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Sensor-based lights will also be installed in Intel’s Santa Clara, Calif., headquarters complex, where 4,500 LED lights will feature energy-saving controls. Of those, about 1,000 will also have the ability to sense occupancy, allowing facilities managers, for instance, to program lights to turn off lights when no one is in a room. This pilot is expected to be the first of several at Intel facilities.