Main: Live Chat. Visit TexasFirstRentals. Call Featured Products. Skid Steer Loader Learn More. Spending plans by industrial companies are up only slightly. For a graphic, click tmsnrt. The contraction of their supply chain in the last downturn thrust many players big and small into a "just in time delivery" business model, creating order backlogs, which has led to soaring prices for raw materials in the recent upswing.
Chastised by that slump, the Deerfield, Ill. Caterpillar has closed or restructured more than 25 factories and its full-time workforce is smaller now than it was at the end of And cuts continue. Caterpillar plans to close two more facilities this year and is considering shuttering an engine plant, which would eliminate jobs.
Caterpillar executives said the new strategy is boosting profitability by allowing it to get the best use out of its existing factories. Timing is part of the problem.
Caterpillar and a host of other industrial companies all ramped up orders at the same time. For years Caterpillar has maintained a long standing tradition of publicly loving and standing behind all of its dealers. Many old school CAT customers are simply opting for older pre-emissions remanufactured Caterpillar engines and equipment. The corporate office has identified three key components the dealers are not utilizing in day to day operations: 1.
Dealers are not using the wealth of real-time customer data now available at their fingertips 2. The dealers are not communicating or collaborating with other dealerships 3. Dealers are not providing a consistence customer experience when it comes to e-commerce orders, parts and servicing pricing The disconnect between corporate and the dealer really steams from a way of thinking.
The corporate mentality is one of technology integration, analytics and finding revenue opportunities. Selling parts and equipment is done on a territorial basis with the majority of sales coming from walk-in traffic. Caterpillar is demanding change and giving its dealers until the end of the year to develop a three-year plan to capture those lost sales.
Dealers who fail to meet targets could have their dealership agreements terminated although top executives have left that as the last option. The data helps customers manage fuel and maintenance costs, track the equipment in real time and optimize the utilization of said equipment in the field.
The technology can be better exploited by dealers. The diagnostic information could immediately increase part and service sales to existing customers.
Dealers could anticipate problems before they arise. Cat corporate is insisting dealers are not doing enough to schedule preventative and predictive maintenance. Overall the company feels it dealer network needs to do a better job of helping customers manage their equipment fleets more effectively. These changes are fairly obvious but the dealers have not done them as nobody directed them to do it or helped them learn the processes.
This is the age of information. Technology and data analysis are changing the way businesses are looking at their operations. In the case of Caterpillar, a company that has been around for 91 years, charging ahead into the 21st century is more of a challenge than first thought.
There are more than 3. Many pieces of the equipment are equipped with sensors that send out continual status updates about mechanical systems and operator performance. In addition, Caterpillar track excavators and wheel loaders were used for the demolition of Palestinian houses.
As of the past several years, Caterpillar military wheel loaders are also used as a crowd control weapon in Kafr Qaddum, during the weekly demonstrations in the village. Caterpillar has also been the target of numerous college campus campaigns. Some of the student council divestment resolutions:.
Subscribe facebook twitter Donate. Caterpillar Inc. Stock Symbols. Settlement Industry. Wall and Checkpoints in Palestine. Weapons and Military Equipment. The D9 The most famous heavy engineering machine used by the Israeli army is the Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer. Economic Activism Highlights. The call was initiated by Cambridge University Palestine Society and Cambridge University Kurdish Society and signed by over 40 student groups and over 70 members of faculty and staff.
On April 18, , Barnard College Student Government Association passed a referendum calling for the university to divest from eight companies profiting from Israel's occupation of Palestine.
The resolution named G4S and Caterpillar. This was the first community college to pass a divestment resolution related to human rights violations in Palestine.
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