Throughout the warehouse, beeping OTTO self-driving vehicles navigate pathways low to the ground, moving materials from point A to point B while leaving employees free to focus on equipment repair.

A large portion of the facility will be dedicated to GE's 20-year-old GoldSeal refurbishing business, including a 50,000 square foot imaging equipment storage facility that will be added to the warehouse.

For equipment that is beyond repair, the ROC has an area dedicated to harvesting parts. A deconstructed CT scanner was on site, which an employee said would be stripped for approximately 30 reusable parts — which would be tested, packaged and deployed to the supply chain — before the remaining shell would be recycled.



A strategic location
In addition to the 6,000-plus employees GE Healthcare already has in Wisconsin, Global Services CEO Shrawder said the ROC will employ 220 people by the end of the year and create 70 jobs that hadn't previously existed.

U.S. Senator for Wisconsin, Tammy Baldwin, was on hand for the grand opening event. "This investment in Wisconsin shows that in order to out-innovate the rest of the world and create an economy that is truly built to last, we have to protect and strengthen our investments in research, science and innovation," she said.

The ROC is also a short drive away from Waukesha, where the 235,000 square foot GE Healthcare Institute provides training to biomedical engineers and HTMs from around the world.

Earlier this year, GE Healthcare moved its Maternal-Infant Care business to Madison and Wauwatosa from Maryland.

Last year, GE Healthcare announced the relocation of its headquarters from Amersham, U.K., to Chicago – about two hours away from the new repair facility.

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