GE Digital

GE Digital is a subsidiary of the American multinational conglomerate corporation General Electric. Headquartered in San Ramon, California, the company provides software and industrial internet of things (IIoT) services to industrial companies.

GE Digital's primary focus is to provide industrial software and services in four markets:
* Manufacturing applications serving discrete and process industries, as well as water utilities and economy-scale digital transformation projects
* Electric and Telecommunications Utilities
* Oil & Gas industry and related adjacent markets (petrochemicals, chemicals manufacturing)
* Power generation (gas, steam, solar, wind, hydro and related balance of plant operations and service support);

History

1980-2010: Automation Software

* 1980: GE introduces the first Ethernet-enabled protection relay, a device that detects faults in systems.
* 1986: GE and Fanuc combine to create GE Fanuc Automation Corporation, which manufactures programmable logic controllers—one of the fundamental buildings blocks of what's come to be known as the Industrial Internet of Things.
* 1995: GE Fanuc launch first HMI/SCADA on a 32-bit system (CIMPLICITY).
* 1996: Saturn Corp implement CIMPLICITY MMI, MES and SCADA solution.
* 1999: CIMPLICITY Saturn's implementation mention in Bill Gates book “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”.
* 2001: GE Measurement and Control is established. It creates many types of sensors, instruments, and control systems for aerospace, the oil and gas industry, and power generation.
* 2002: GE Fanuc Automation Completes Acquisition of Intellution (iFIX products).
* 2003: GE Fanuc Automation Completes Acquisition of Mountain Systems (Historian and Plant Apps products).
* 2007: GE Fanuc Automation Corporation becomes GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms.

2011 – 2015: Internal industrial software development

* 2011: GE establishes a software Center of Excellence focused on developing industrial software.
* 2013: GE develops Predix, its platform for IIoT applications, designed to help GE businesses transform their operations.

2015 – 2017: Launch of Predix

* 2016: GE launches Predix to the market, making its suite of applications available to industrial customers and partners globally. GE Digital also announced its acquisition of ServiceMax, to extend Predix and analytics across field service processes. This acquisition closed in January 2017.
*2016: GE Digital acquires Roanoke VA based software company Meridium that specializes in helping industrial customers predict when machinery might fail and also offers anal