GE announces First "Predix Spark program" winners

November 16, 2017, Shanghai, China-General Electric (GE) announced the first "Predix Spark Program" award by the "GE Industrial Internet Technology Summit" held at GE China Science and Technology Park today, awarding the award to four outstanding start-ups and partners to encourage more enterprises to invest in industrial mutual Networking applications development, and jointly expand the industrial Internet ecological Circle.

The main target of the Predix Spark program is the industrial Internet start-up company and GE's partner in the Industrial Internet field. GE encourages participating companies to develop an asset performance management (APM) extension application for industry based on the Predix cloud platform, effectively addressing the challenges of the digital industry transformation faced by Chinese industry and helping industry to improve productivity in a comprehensive way.

"Through the ' Predix Spark program ', we want to attract more companies to the development of industrial Internet applications, build local digital industry capabilities, and drive GE's pilot projects in key vertical industries, including power generation, aviation and healthcare," said Chicho, GE's senior vice president and GE's China president and chief executive. Cultivate the Chinese industrial Internet ecosystem and support more local enterprises to realize digital transformation. The launch of the ' Predix Spark program ' shows GE China's firm commitment to digital strategy. ”

2017 "Predix Spark Program" adopted the nomination invitation, a total of 16 GE partners and start-up companies have submitted content covering the energy, medical, equipment manufacturing and other fields of industrial application projects. Finally, Beijing Huarui Special Information Technology Co., Ltd., Wuhan Huazhong Technology Co., Ltd. won the "partner Award", wide-mining network Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., the real view of information Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. won the "start-up Company" award.

The four winners will receive resources such as the one-month incubation of the GE Digital Innovation Workshop in Shanghai, full support from GE's technical team, and potential investment opportunities in GE's venture capital sector. The Shanghai Digital Innovation Workshop, which was launched in July 2016, aims to support local digital industry innovation and incubation through a global network of similar facilities in other parts of GE, and to collaborate with customers in the development of the industrial Internet by aggregating ecosystem resources.

GE is committed to building predix into an industry-recognized industrial Internet application development platform, and supporting industrial enterprises to collect and analyze data in real time and safely, and to enable businesses to run faster, smarter, more accurately, and efficiently, through a predix, complete predictive asset performance management solution family (APM). To help the asset-centric industrial enterprises to increase uptime, reduce costs and reduce operational risk.