GE Digital Energy unveiled its new Surface Mount Technology (SMT), which is currently operational and is expected to increase production over the next year.

It’s been a week of high-tech investments at GE, from the factory floor in Rochester, NY to the latest in cyber security in Glen Allen, Virginia to the future of electric flight in Dayton, Ohio. Over the next few years, the three sites together could create more than 400 new jobs. In Rochester, GE Energy just announced that it’s investing more than $2 million in technology to increase manufacturing capabilities at the facility where it produces printed circuit boards. The boards are essentially the “brains” of GE radios that collect and transmit mission critical data for industrial applications, such as gas pipeline monitoring and advanced metering of energy use. The technology helps improve the efficiency and reliability of systems throughout the world and will also be used in GE smart grid technologies. That investment is expected to add 15 new jobs to the existing 200-plus jobs at the Rochester location.

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