Cats’ online community for power professionals
Caterpillar – the world’s largest maker of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, and industrial gas turbines – is hosting an online power generation community, an interactive forum where consulting specifying engineers and other power generation professionals can come and exchange ideas and best practices, and past experience of purchasing or working with Cat® Power Generation equipment is not required to participate in discussions and there are no registration fees.
Dave Lucas, manager of marketing communications – Caterpillar Electric Power division – confirmed that the purpose of their online community is to provide somewhere where users can find answers to specific questions and have the ability to interact with their peers. And, although Caterpillar is hosting the forum, their primary goal is to help people in the industry unite with each other – around the clock and from around the world.
Caterpillar launched a test of the online community last October and invited a select group of professionals involved in designing, specifying, purchasing, installing, and operating power generation equipment, where to date users from 119 countries have generated more than 110,000 page views, where the topic gaining the most interest is power generation sustainability, featuring discussions on topics including alternative fuels and emissions requirements.
The forum also includes topics such as site design, standards and regulations and system components, but the beauty of utilising the online community means that users who cannot find an existing topic of interest can simply create a new discussion by creating a new thread.
Caterpillar experts are also featured within the community providing opinions and blogs.
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