Revenue fell 5% from last year, however, to $35.9 billion, hampered by lower assets at its GE Capital unit as well as slowing equipment sales.
As the hospital market has slowed for equipment like M.R.I.'s, and as care is increasingly delivered outside hospital walls, G.E. is turning its attention to doctors in their offices.
That means slowing down equipment replacement cycles most companies turn over PCs every two to three years and delaying big projects and any new project that won't boost revenues within one or two quarters.
American officers in Iraq responsible for local training even go so far as to say the slow delivery of equipment may have contributed to deaths among new Iraqi security forces, who did not have effective protection and could not radio for backup troops, who in any case may not have had the vehicles to speed to assist their colleagues under fire.
Beals's pictures of the World's Fair Air Show contest are remarkable technically and historically: technically because she managed, with slow and cumbersome equipment, to record moving airships and people rushing to see them; historically because they provide an extended glimpse into early attempts to fly.
In the 2011 Southwest America blackout, it was a relatively slow process with equipment overloading as the main stability problem.
The new Tandetron accelerator in Florence, with many different beamlines, has required a new organization of all the control signals of the used equipment (slow control).
Lebanon, however, has become frustrated with the slow delivery of equipment from France.
The administration did not say whether it would directly supply the Kurdish peshmerga forces in the north or the Sunnis already battling the Islamic State, although those communities have said they desperately need supplies because they claim Baghdad is slow to distribute equipment.
Outmoded equipment slowed research.
