Chapter 12, Problem 15CSQ

Program Plan Intro

General Electric (GE) company:

The General Electric (GE) company is an American multinational conglomerate located in New York. It operates in several manufacturing industries like power, transportation, oil and gas, healthcare, and aviation. 

Predix:

• Predix is a software platform which is launched in the year 2015 to collect data from the industrial sensors and to evaluate the information present in the cloud.
• It is capable of running any cloud infrastructure.
• It consists of open standards and protocol which makes the customer to connect their machines to the internet quickly.

Explanation of Solution

Value to the firm provided by the decisions:

• Value provided by Predix in cloud services of GE:
  • It helps to provide security to the data stored in the cloud.
  • It gives security to the company which link their operations to the Internet.
  • Thus, it enables the firm to safeguard the data in a very protective manner.
• Value provided by Predix in GE industrial product:
  • It helps to schedule the maintenance check of the machine which helps the machine operators to check the machine regularly and repeatedly without missing the checking operation...