GE Rugged: Opportunity beyond the Battlefield

Here’s a Q&A with the man charged with beating GE’s rugged high-rel swords into ploughshares targeting transportation, industrial, energy…and more mil/aero platforms.

GE—famously intending to be #1 or #2 in all target businesses—sees great synergy in applying the experience and expertise it has developed in rugged hardware, software and services—what the company calls “GE Rugged”—in the mil/aero market and applying them much more broadly, into industries and markets that need to deploy high performance computing into harsh environments in applications such as transportation, infrastructure, energy/power and industry. More importantly, GE’s long-term focus on the Internet of Things (IoT)—which the company calls “The Industrial Internet”—needs the technology that’s readily available off-the-shelf from the rugged embedded group.

Chris A. Ciufo, Editor-in-Chief, Embedded Systems Engineering magazine caught up with the man tasked with communicating this message, Rubin Dhillon.

Read the full article here.