付録1. Caterpillar 関係資料
Caterpillar Inc.
100 N.E. Adams St., Peoria, IL 61629
TEL: (309)675-1000
Chairman & CEO: Glen A. Barton
・The Story of Caterpillar cat内部資料
・Caterpillar Inc. April 2001
Glen A. Barton, Cat会長及びCEO Cat作成資料
THE STORY OF CATERPILLAR
CATERPILLAR
Caterpillar Inc. 100 NE Adams Street Peoria, Illinois 61629
Background
Caterpillar Inc., headquartered in Peoria, Illinois, is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines. Caterpillar is a Fortune 100 company with more than $26billion in assets.
Histoty
The story of Caterpillar dates back to the late 19th century, when Daniel Best and Benjamin Holt each were experimenting with ways to fulfill the promise steam tractors held for farming. Prior to forming Caterpillar in 1925, the Best and Holt families collectively had pioneered track-type tractors and the gasoline-powered tractor engine.
Best and Holt also had been experimenting with diesel as an efficient source of power for tracktype tractors. By October 1931, the first Diesel Sixty Tractor rolled off a new assembly line in East Peoria, Illinois.
By 1940, Caterpillar's product line had expanded to include motor graders, blade graders, elevating graders and terracers, as well as electric generator sets.
In World War I, Holt's track-type tractors were in great demand by the Allies for pulling artillery and supply wagons through shell-pocked fields and muddy roads. World War II brought with it a large demand for track-type tractors, motor graders, generator sets, and a special engine for the M4 tank.
The postwar period ushered in numerous new products and the company's first foreign venture. In 1950 the establishment of Caterpillar Tractor Co. Ltd. in Great Britain was the first of many overseas operations created to help manage foreign exchange shortages, tariffs, import controls, and better serve customer needs around the world. For the same reasons, manufacturing plants were later established in strategic regions throughout the world.
In 1953, the company created a separate sales and marketing division to serve engine customers. Since then, Caterpillar's Engine Division has become a major player in the diesel engine market and now accounts for one quarter of the company's total sales. Cat engines power everything from on-highway trucks, ships, pleasure boats and locomotives to earthmoving, construction and materials handling equipment. Through electric generation systems, Cat engines supply power to areas Inaccessible to utility power grids, including off-shore oil drilling rigs, remote mines and isolated communities, and provide emergency power to hospitals, schools, factories, office buildings and airports. Caterpillar is also the leading supplier of industrial gas turbines, following the purchase of Solar Turbines Incorporated in 1981.
In 1963 Caterpillar and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. formed a 50/50 joint venture in Japan. Caterpillar Mitsubishi Ltd. started production in 1965 in a new plant at Sagamihara, 28 miles southwest of Tokyo. Renamed Shin Caterpillar Mitsubishi Ltd. in 1987 to reflect an expansion of the original agreement, the joint venture today is the No.2 maker of construction and mining equipment in Japan. In 1993, Shin Caterpillar Mitsubishi Ltd. celebrated its 30th anniversary, making it one of the most enduring and successful U.S.-Japanese joint ventures.
In the '70s, Caterpillar introduced a broad range of new products, many of which are forerunners of today's best-selling lines. Some of the products include the 3400 family of engines, the 225 hydraulic excavator, and the D10, then the world's largest and most advanced track-type tractor.
Followlng a boom period in the 1970s, the worldwide recession of the early 1980s forced Caterpillar to reduce employment, sharply cut costs, and look at long-term changes to lessen the adverse impact of future economic downturns. A $1.8 billion plant modernization program was launched in 1987 to streamline the manufacturing process. The product line was diversified to meet a variety of customer needs; well over 300 products are offered today, more than double the figure in 1981.
To better focus on critical product and service areas, Caterpillar made several organizational changes in the '80s, including the formation of Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation in 1981 to offer equipment financing options to its customers worldwide. As a precursor to a major company reorganization, Caterpillar formed the Building Construction Products Division in 1989 to better serve customers who are owners and operators of their own construction equipment.
In 1990, the company reorganized into business divisions measured by return on assets and customer satisfaction, and service divisions. The new organization pushes decision-making down, with the emphasis on flexibility and doing what it takes to provide products and services that meet customer needs. The company continues to fine tune the organization which today includes 21 business divisions and five service divisions.
Caterpillar again achieved record sales and profit in 1998, exceeding the $1 billion mark in profit for the fourth year in a row. These results reflect the success of the company's global strategies, which include the $1.8 billion investment in factory modernization, corporate reorganization to become more customer driven, a streamlined new product introduction process, and focus on growth markets, such as agriculture, forestry and electric power generation.
Today, Caterpillar is a high-tech global growth company whose attention is focused on expanding into new markets and new products. Among the recent key expansions:
・ acquisition of MaK Motoren in Germany, Perkins Engines in England and F.G. Wilson in Northern Ireland which significantly expand the company's power system offerings. With the addition of these companies, Cat now competes globally as a full-line producer of reciprocating and turbine engines, ranging from 5 to 22,000 horsepower.
・ introduction of a new line of compact machines including mini-excavators, compact wheel loaders, skid steer loaders, and a comprehensive line of work tools.
Snapshot of Current Operations
・ Caterpillar products today are manufactured in 42 plants in the United States and 49 plants in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Russia, South Africa and Sweden.
・ Caterpillar marketing headquarters are located in Peoria and Mossville, Illinois; San Diego, California; Miami, Florida; Cary, North Carolina; Gosselies, Belgium; Geneva, Switzerland; Hong Kong, People's Republic of China; Singapore; Tokyo, Japan; Melbourne, Australia; Peterborough, England; Kiel, Germany and Piracicaba, Brazil.
・ Caterpillar's parts distribution network consists of 26 distribution facilities in 11 countries around the world.
・ Caterpillar's global dealership network is comprised of 63 dealers in the United States and 144 dealers outside the United States. Many of these dealers have relationships with their customers that have spanned at least two generations.
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