GE TRANSPORTATION: ADVANCES IN LOCOMOTIVES FOR TIER 4

June 23, 2015

GE Transportation (GET) is a business within the GE conglomerate which manufactures locomotives, Off Highway Vehicles, mining equipment, stationary power units and marine. Using an international scholarship in the summer of 2012 the author participated in the GET internships in Erie Pennsylvania. The work carried out was in the Electric Drive Packaging Division and was towards the next generation of locomotives from GE that would comply with the new Tier 4 standards. The project work carried out by the author will be reviewed here and lessons learned from the experience will be highlighted, in particular: the adoption of Lean and the company culture

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