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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kevin Nolan, CTO of GE Appliances, spent 28 years at General Electric, “trying to do innovation,” as he puts it, before giving up. He finally accepted he couldn’t do it, internally at least. At one ...

"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 ...

Rich was the editorial lead for CNET's Home and Wellness sections, based in Louisville, Kentucky. Before moving to Louisville in 2013, Rich ran CNET's desktop computer review section for 10 years in ...