SYNOPSIS

Digitization is the process of converting information into a digital  format. The result is the representation of an object, image, sound, document or signal by generating a series of numbers that describe a discrete set of its points or samples. The result is called digital representation or, more specifically, a digital image, for the object, and digital form, for the signal. In modern practice, the digitized data is in the form of binary numbers, which facilitate computer processing and other operations, but, strictly speaking, digitizing simply means the conversion of analog source material into a numerical format; the decimal or any other number system that can be used instead.

Predix is General Electric's software platform for the collection and analysis of data from industrial machines. General Electric plans to support the growing industrial internet of things with cloud servers and an app store. GE is a member of the Industrial Internet Consortium which works to aid the development and use of industrial internet technologies. Predix as a cloud-based PaaS (platform as a service) is claimed to enable industrial-scale analytics for asset performance management (APM) and operations optimization by providing a standard way to connect machines, data, and people. GE expects Predix software to do for factories and plants what Apple's iOS did for cell phones.[4] Built on Cloud Foundry open source technology, Predix provides a microservicesbased delivery model with a distributed architecture (cloud, and on-machine))

Predix as a cloud-based PaaS (platform as a service) is claimed to enable industrial-scale analytics for asset performance management (APM) and operations optimization by providing a standard way to connect machines, data, and people. GE expects Predix software to do for factories and plants what Apple's iOS did for cell phones.[4] Built on Cloud Foundry open source technology, Predix provides a microservicesbased delivery model with a distributed architecture (cloud, and on-machine) Predix aims towards system wide optimization and to create a detailed model that spans entire systems such as aircraft operations. The model allows better optimization of each part of the system (such as a turbine blade) as well as optimization of the entire system (such as airline operations). This talk will share important of the Digitalization in the industry and how Predix could close the gap of making the benefit from Digital initiative.


SPEAKER BIODATA

Gabriel Tse (Gabe) is a Director of Digital & Growth Initiatives in June 2017. He actively partners the GE Digital & Business Digital teams to identify & drive EVP’s as well as Predix He provides additional coverage for driving Digital enablement in the countries and synergise country and business teams efforts on driving the digital play for Energy Ecosystem.  

He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in mechanical engineering from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Stanford University, respectively, and an MBA from the University of Southern California. Since joining GE, he has developed commercial and marketing strategies for Unconventional Gas, Offshore Marine, and Small Gas Processing (CNG/LNG) in the US and Asia. Prior to this, he drove strategic initiatives for GE Oil & Gas on the Industrial Internet and Production Optimization – realigning O&G’s upstream software portfolio and driving GE's production optimization R&D efforts to help customers increase profitability.