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GE Garage: Young Inventors' Playground
CNC Desktop - JP/Yuliasri PerdaniFrom Thomas Edisonâs practical electric light in the 1880s to its recent breakthrough, namely a 3D-printed aircraft engineâs fuel nozzle that is 25 percent lighter and five times more durable, global giant General Electric (GE) is without a doubt a great innovator
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CNC Desktop - JP/Yuliasri Perdani" height="430" border="0" width="511">CNC Desktop - JP/Yuliasri PerdaniFrom Thomas Edisonâs practical electric light in the 1880s to its recent breakthrough, namely a 3D-printed aircraft engineâs fuel nozzle that is 25 percent lighter and five times more durable, global giant General Electric (GE) is without a doubt a great innovator.
The global giant General Electric (GE) spread its innovative spirit to Indonesian youth by opening up a garage filled with state-of-the-art tools.
After achieving success in the US, Europe and Africa, the company brought its pop-up GE Garage to Jakarta recently at the Ciputra Artpreneur, Ciputra World to help local talents turn their ideas into reality.
From Aug. 18 to 23, with numerous free classes and sessions provided in the garage â from a 3D-printing workshop to meet-up sessions with inspiring inventors â the GE Garage Jakarta provided a valuable forum for aspiring designers, innovators and entrepreneurs to get fresh ideas and perhaps make collaborations.
Having flown all the way from their hometown in Surabaya, East Java, Bias and her friend, Ratih, took part in the workshop for 3D printing and design on the GE Garageâs opening day.
Their first project was to design a 5-square-centimeter pencil case using the Autodesk 123D application, which they just learned for 30 minutes beforehand from the instructor.
âThis is easy, but I wouldnât know what to do if the instructor asked me to design a more complicated design,â Bias said, while making a final touch to her design.
At the end of the session, Bias got a chance to get her own 3D-printed pencil case for free. Her first encounter with a 3D design app and printer ignited ideas in her mind.
âIt will be great if I have a 3D scanner, which enables me to make figures. By having the printer, I can also make toys and maybe sell them,â she said.
The workshops and sessions in the week-long GE Garage not only inspired Bias, but also scores of technology enthusiasts who are brimming with ideas to imagine more possibilities, invent new things and meet their possible collaborators.
CNC Desktop - JP/Yuliasri Perdani From Thomas Edison's practical electric light in the 1880s to its recent breakthrough, namely a 3D-printed aircraft engine's fuel nozzle that is 25 percent lighter and five times more durable, global giant General Electric (GE) is without a doubt a great innovator. The global giant General Electric (GE) spread its innovative spirit to Indonesian youth by opening up a garage filled with state-of-the-art tools. GE Garage, in collaboration with local makerspace MakeDoNia, opened its doors for beginners and children by providing workshops on basic 3D, neo-pinhole cameras and zoetropes ' cylinders with slits cut vertically in the sides that produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings. GE Garage has evolved into a global program, popping up in 16 cities across nine countries on three continents, spanning from Brussels to Nigeria. 
After achieving success in the US, Europe and Africa, the company brought its pop-up GE Garage to Jakarta recently at the Ciputra Artpreneur, Ciputra World to help local talents turn their ideas into reality.
From Aug. 18 to 23, with numerous free classes and sessions provided in the garage ' from a 3D-printing workshop to meet-up sessions with inspiring inventors ' the GE Garage Jakarta provided a valuable forum for aspiring designers, innovators and entrepreneurs to get fresh ideas and perhaps make collaborations.
Having flown all the way from their hometown in Surabaya, East Java, Bias and her friend, Ratih, took part in the workshop for 3D printing and design on the GE Garage's opening day.
Their first project was to design a 5-square-centimeter pencil case using the Autodesk 123D application, which they just learned for 30 minutes beforehand from the instructor.
'This is easy, but I wouldn't know what to do if the instructor asked me to design a more complicated design,' Bias said, while making a final touch to her design.
At the end of the session, Bias got a chance to get her own 3D-printed pencil case for free. Her first encounter with a 3D design app and printer ignited ideas in her mind.
'It will be great if I have a 3D scanner, which enables me to make figures. By having the printer, I can also make toys and maybe sell them,' she said.
The workshops and sessions in the week-long GE Garage not only inspired Bias, but also scores of technology enthusiasts who are brimming with ideas to imagine more possibilities, invent new things and meet their possible collaborators.
For 3D experts, the GE Garage challenges them to design and print a drone.
The garage also provided hands-on classes to learn coding, to make a controlled rainbow light using Arduino programming software, to develop a smart doorbell on the IoT platform and much more.
In the corner of the venue, a Computer Controlled Cutting (CNC) Router connected to a laptop, provided a tool for those interested in carving their designs on a wood panel.
The CEO of GE Indonesia, Handry Satriago, said with the garage, the company hopes to foster Indonesia's next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs.
'The concept behind GE Garage is simple: make some of these breakthrough technologies accessible to young designers, budding entrepreneurs and students and empower them by getting them acquainted with additive manufacturing that is leading change in the sector,' he said.
'With the considerable innovative talent in Indonesia, I am looking forward to seeing some really great ideas come out of GE Garage that can be made tangible and commercial.'
Jakarta was the first city in an Asian country to host GE Garage. First developed in 2012, the garage program was initially designed to reinvigorate the US' interest in invention, innovation and manufacturing by introducing aspiring builders with new skills and state-of-the-art manufacturing technologies.
The Jakarta GE Garage not only brought imported technologies to the table, but also cast a light on some of Indonesia's bright inventors. At the event, students of the Islamic University of Indonesia (UII) in Yogyakarta displayed an electric car.
Figures of some prominent startups ' such as the Geeknesia Internet of Things (IoT) platform, the Flipbbox application developer and social entrepreneurs that include the Sabang Merauke intra-nation student exchange program and the Cewequat women's community-based company ' shared their insights in the meet-up session.
GE presented its top executive to unveil the success secret of GE, a 123-year-old company that made into the Forbes' top-10 list of the world's most admired companies in 2015.
Heather Wang, vice president of human resources, GE International Inc. at GE Healthcare Ltd. and General Electric Co., revealed to hundreds of guests, mostly those coming from the business sector, how GE evolved its ways of recruiting and nurturing talents, driving cultural changes and developing an effective system by shrinking its headquarters' structure and entrusting their subsidiaries with more freedom to innovate.
'A lot people asked us: 'How did you survive such a long journey?'' said Wang. 'I think one of the fundamentals is our foundation of building talent and leadership.'
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