Cat D7E puts on waste management world in electrical performance-

The electric motor Caterpillar D7E crawler Dozer built waste handler specification proves the municipal authorities and the commercial contractors, equally popular.

The European Division of Caterpillar corporation, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, has over the last few months in organising a series of demonstration tours for this technically interesting new machine employs.And waste management world along was invited to try the machine – this will form the basis of product tests by Malcolm Bates.

Caterpillar corporation claimed a significant savings in both fuel consumption and a decrease in emissions from this machine if compared to machines with torque converter or hydrostatic Übertragungen.Klicken on the D7E the engine drives an electric generator and this provides power for the track drive and a different circuit to turn the machine hydraulics and electrical systems.

But it is the ability of the electric drive systems ' under load - lug, this is a heavy burden without an additional burden on the diesel engine, which is the main function of the design.This is considered as life, as well as provide a great advantage in improved engine of the machine operator by CAT, to work in a less stressful environment.

But this package really deliver in real life? thats what Ing.Vlastislav Guth and his colleagues at ASA in the Slovakia wanted local cat dealer Phoenix Zeppelin find., based in Bratislava a machine in for weeks study, Vlastislav and Milan senior operator, set close to the landfill ASA to Bratislava, avoiding the D7E replace a full-time landfill waste compactor and were impressed by both the work output and fuel savings of the D7E.

Malcolm's feature complete write are in the January/February Edition of the waste management world aufgenommen.Um to subscribe to your free copy of the magazine, please click here.

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Manage your Fleet--Promote a Life Cycle Management perspective

 

A Different Perspective

There are many ways to analyze a problem before it decides whether a path to the decision. A method that has worked well in Caterpillar over is first understand the whole question ... get the big picture right; then, when we have convinced us we truly and deeply understand the big picture, break it down to its essential elements.  In modern language, the "eat the elephant one bite at a time."A big problem that we at Caterpillar stands with all the time, the price-our equipment is not cheap ... But then, it has never been our business plan to build cheap equipment; it has always been our plan to provide the best customer value.  

The problem is that the price is a specific, finite things ... an absolutely-a number.People look at a number and relate it to something else, they already know and understand. My wife loves chocolate, and she has a tendency to analyze price as units of chocolate: "holy mackerel, I could buy a case of candy bars for the cost of new blender". My father-in-law is a golfers: "OK, let's see ... for the price of a new lawn trimmers when I could get a new set of irons ... and probably a new golf bag too."

It is a process of natural and human. We all do it; we take the finite things, number, and through a kind of internal, highly personal process we come with a value because numbers in and of itself has no importance.  It is only when we can compare them with something else, in context, that number has significance and in our case "customer value".

The big Picture 

The chart at the top is how we analyze the ' big picture ' machine life cycle. When a customer purchases a machine or a fleet of machines, these are the five elements that must be managed to extract the most "value" from purchases. the five elements include selection, operations and Project Management, Repair & Maintenance Management, business management & Rebuild, resale, sales.An enormous work and energy, and analysis and negotiate goes in the front end of this process to arrive at a purchase price (a number).. perhaps disproportionately so.It is our assertion that the real payoff comes from the management of these five elements on the absolute best way possible to reach the best possible customer value.Introductory price is an event; lifecycle management is a process.Gold is in the process!

At this point, I am sure I have excluded the majority of the Auditors is reading this blog, but I will ask them to keep up with me a little longer, we will return to the numbers in a while For the moment, I have tried to describe the "Big picture" side of things in this concept of "customer value"; in the next few weeks, we have various leaders within our business expert on its territory and concise discuss each of the five elements set out in the equipment life cycle chart, one by one; I hope you will stick with us and make comments that can be incorporated into the discussion about the life cycle management ... the path to Customer value.

Before we bring the experts to share their knowledge of these five elements, takes time to send me a note to share their perspective of these five elements, how the management of the lifecycle, or what keeps you you night?

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