“At GE Appliances and FirstBuild, open innovation is the key to unlocking consumer needs and transforming them into groundbreaking solutions,” said GE Appliances CEO Kevin Nolan. “By listening to our ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FirstBuild™, a global co-creation community backed by GE Appliances, a Haier company, has already engaged thousands of makers in person and online to invent a new ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Since its launch in 2014, the innovation arm of GE ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE’s FirstBuild co-creation community has answered the challenge of coffee lovers everywhere with a way to roast fresh coffee beans at home. Along with Autodesk™, a ...

If you are running R&D at a large appliance manufacturer, you have a challenge. You typically make products in enormous quantities at pretty slim margins. In order to recoup your development, tooling ...

This past weekend, the GE FirstBuild microfactory in Louisville, Kentucky, played host to the largest ever hack-a-thon devoted to home appliances. The event challenged participants to hack and build ...

Sometimes the best way to promote innovation at your company is to shelter innovators from the company. Anyone can walk into a GE Appliances FirstBuild facility and play with everything from CNC ...

FirstBuild™ designs, builds and sells home appliances using an online co-creation community and micromanufacturing model to accelerate new product introductions This new model enables faster ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Since the end of March, FirstBuild has raised more than ...