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Heart To Heart: Two Innovators Reveal What's Next For 3D-Printing In Healthcare

Tomas Kellner
April 29, 2018
Jimmie Beacham, who runs GE Healthcare’s Advanced Manufacturing Lab in Waukesha, Wisconsin, received an unusual request a year ago. One of his colleagues asked him whether he could 3D print his heart. “He just had a CT scan, and he brought the data file to us,” Beacham says. “We said, ‘Why not?’ ”
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The Future of Work

Game On: Augmented Reality Is Helping Factory Workers Become More Productive

Tomas Kellner
April 19, 2018
Jimmie Beacham is no gamer, but that didn’t stop him from hanging an Xbox console from a ceiling at work. As chief engineer for advanced manufacturing at GE Healthcare, Beacham, 44, is in charge of a futuristic laboratory in Waukesha, Wisconsin, experimenting with new ways to make things. He and his team are using the Xbox and a connected Kinect motion tracker to bring augmented reality (AR) into the factory and help workers become more efficient.
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That's Hip: How GE And Johnson & Johnson Are Making 3D-Printed Body Parts A Reality

Tomas Kellner
October 05, 2017
The writer H. L. Mencken quipped that conscience was a mother-in-law who never left. Sam Onukuri can say the same thing about inspiration, and he means it literally.
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3D Printing

Have A Heart: New Software Could 3D Print Organ Replicas On Demand

Tomas Kellner
April 26, 2017
Erica Endicott was pregnant with her son, Kaden, when cardiologists at Phoenix Children’s Heart Center discovered that the left side of the boy’s heart was not growing properly. Kaden, who is healthy now, was treated by a team of doctors in Boston for the life-threatening condition. Following the procedure, they used data from an ultrasound system to create and print 3D models of Kaden’s heart before and after his surgery.
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Ex-Im

GE to Build New State-Of-The-Art Engine Plant in Canada to Fill Gap from Ex-Im Bank Lapse

Tomas Kellner
September 27, 2015
GE today announced plans to build a new, state-of-the-art "Brilliant Factory" with manufacturing capacity for multiple business lines including Power & Water, Oil & Gas and Transportation in Canada. The plan will create 350 manufacturing jobs in the first phase and will secure access to Canadian Export Finance to fill the gap from the lapse of the U.S. Export-Import Bank.
As part of the plan, GE's Power & Water business will stop making its trademark orange gas engines in Waukesha, Wis.
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This Japanese Company Built a “Disaster-Proof” Factory

March 17, 2015
Japan is famous for innovation. But, like many countries in the Pacific, it must also cope with fierce forces of nature. Now one local company has merged insights from both and built what could be one of the first “disaster-proof” factories.
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