Gallery: GE's Radical Software Helps Jet Engines Fix Themselves

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    Predix is a new software platform that will eventually bring all of GE's industrial machines onto one contextually-aware, cloud-connected system. *Photo: Ariel Zambelich/WIRED*
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    The effort is being lead by designer Greg Petroff, who took the reins as the company's head of UX in 2011. *Image: GE*
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    But the vision is to connect all these machines and more to the cloud, allowing for predictive service and wide-reaching benchmarking. *Image: GE*
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    It's all in the name of efficiency--the aim is 1% per industry per year. *Image: GE*
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    The card-based UI and focus on contextual smarts make comparisons to Google Now a no-brainer. *Image: GE*
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