Recent News: GE Healthcare, Q&A w/ John Wyllie, GE Aviation Navy Contract, and GE Real Estate in Germany

GE restarts X-ray machine factory with U.S. OK
General Electric Co. has resumed production of X-ray machines at a Salt Lake City, Utah, facility shut since late 2006 because of quality-control issues raised by U.S. regulators. GE Healthcare on Thursday received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to restart the plant, and full production has resumed, GE officials said on Friday....

Q&A: GE Money’s John Wyllie on Web Analytics
John Wyllie is the global web analytics manager at GE Money – a role in which he advises and directs the analytics activities of the company’s numerous international businesses.
We asked him a few questions about how analytics can best be managed within organisations, and how the financial services industry stacks up against other sectors...

GE Aviation awarded $321.7M Navy contract for engines
General Electric Aviation, a unit of General Electric Co., received a $321.7 million contract boost to supply 84 F414-GE-400 engines and device kits and related equipment for the Navy's F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets and its EA-18G Growler attack aircraft, the Defense Department said late Friday...

GE's Surgery Unit Is Set To Restart After Miscues
General Electric Co.'s GE Surgery unit will be back in action within days, marking the end of a 20-month shutdown that stemmed from the Food and Drug Administration's finding that device malfunctions weren't being reported. GE Surgery operates a factory in Salt Lake City that makes C-shaped X-ray devices that allow doctors to see what is happening inside a patient during surgery. The one factory accounted for about 90% of the unit's business, which has annual sales of about $600 million....

GE Real Estate seeks buys in German market: report
GE Real Estate, the property investment arm of General Electric Co has earmarked around 1.5 billion euros to invest in the German property loan market, a German daily reported on Saturday....