NEW YORK — It's not every day you get a 20-year-old Indonesian student outsmarting some of General Electric's greatest minds and designers.
According to GE's general manager for technology Christine Furstoss, the unnamed student helped General Electric save considerable sums of money in development and manufacturing costs by designing a critical aircraft part that was 83 percent lighter and yet still met the safety and design criteria.
And that's all thanks to 3D printing. While it may be today's buzzword, in reality it's just a fraction of the overall manufacturing process — and General Electric wants to lead the way.
But it can only do that by embracing change and its desire to learn.
Furstoss told attendees at the Inside 3D Printing conference in New York on Thursday that the "maker movement" is revolutionizing how the traditional manufacturers look at their own design and building process — showing everyone how anything can be developed and built in a fraction of the time.
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