CAT^® REMAN FROM THE TOP DOWN

Billy Frank — Our customers have a job to do… Their jobs are not to build engines or build machines. Their job is to move dirt. Their job is to move power. Their job is to move things from one place to another… And they need a high-quality product that allows that to happen consistently.

David Andres — We're here to serve our customers in almost every minute of every day, we're talking about the customer in some way, shape or form, and our objective is to serve them with the right product at the right time and the right price.

Jennifer Keffeler — We provide a significant amount of repair options for customers to choose from, we provide those repair options with like new performance, and we provide it at a lower cost than having to choose new (with core return).

Danny Simon — One of the things that Cat Reman offers to our customers that nobody else can is that linkage back to our new component side of the business… We have the ability within Caterpillar Reman to, in parallel, introduce those same continuous improvement projects within Cat Reman products.

Jennifer Keffeler — Cat Reman has the engineering teams as well as the specialty to understand how to bring back a part to its second life and provide that like new standard. It's knowing the reuse opportunity for specific parts and making a very clear call on what can be reused so that it has like new performance versus what needs to be replaced.

Trent Tippey — When we've designed the product to be remanufactured... we've invested in the technical and the intellectual property, not only into the new side of it to ensure that we have an opportunity to win on the remanufacturing space, but also invested all the research and development into the second part of this, which would be into the restoring of that product back to its original condition.

Trent Tippey — We have over 8,000 part numbers in the Reman portfolio for Caterpillar today. Those offerings continue to grow every day that the teams here at [Caterpillar] are at work.

Brian Edwards — We've developed almost 400 new parts and assemblies in one year… We can put products on the shelf that allow customers to come in and basically make exchanges in real time.

David Andres — Within Cat Reman, we use inventory as an investment… [For] the oil and gas industry… we had our process partners in late 2019 telling us that the demand would be going up in early 2020 and by a factor of five… So, we prepared in advance. We put the inventory in place. The orders came up by a factor of five, exactly as predicted… We fulfilled the orders, the factory didn't have to move up. The supply base didn't have to move up, no back orders.

Billy Frank — Customers want the same things we want, which is options... If we give a customer two or three options, they have a choice and they can shop with us.

Trent Tippey — So you can always go buy a new piece of equipment… But maybe that's not something that is in your budget… Sometimes you don't need to have a brand new D11 dozer doing the work when you could maybe have a D10 that was on somebody else's job site before... A lot of folks see the value in a used piece of equipment. They see the value in knowing the Caterpillar parts have been engineered to a very stringent standard... As a result, they know they can rely on it for multiple lives.

Jennifer Keffeler — When we think about lowering repair costs for customers, a lower price point than new is critical. Cat Reman offers that. Our whole business model — of trying to get core back so that we can remanufacture it to like new standards — is what enables us to offer a lower cost repair option for customers.

Billy Frank — You're getting a lot of what you would expect from Caterpillar at a lower price point. It's good for the customer from a total cost of ownership perspective, it's good for the circular economy because it's recycled, reused, remanufactured product.… And, when you have those two things, it helps you win.

Bob Paternoga — We leverage our new side, failure modes and effects analyses. We utilize the original test specifications. And by having all of that data, we're able to, essentially, warrant our products like new.

Brian Edwards —The Cat Reman warranty* is same as new… [That is] the confidence we have in the products we produce… It's going to be like new, with the same-as-new warranty, but you only pay a fraction of what it costs for a new part, when you return your core.

Jennifer Keffeler — Cat Reman's stringent guidelines on reuse give us a sense of confidence that we know where those parts are that we're reusing in a Cat Reman engine, and — if they have the life left in them — that we want to guarantee from a Caterpillar warranty standpoint.

*Warranty can vary by model and application; limitations apply. For complete details about the applicable Caterpillar Limited Warranty, contact an authorized Cat dealer.

Marcus Fair — Customers are evolving and changing, right?… The way they do business is changing. They're trying to get more efficient. They're trying to, again, make money for themselves and for their customers. So, Cat Reman has to have our ears to the ground, understanding customers' needs and their wants.

Brian Edwards — In the next five years, I see the Remanufacturing Division growing… our focus is on creating the additional offerings and the right solutions to do our part of delivering the services growth, and at the same time being a huge piece of our sustainability message and story going forward.

Trent Tippey — I think you're going to see as we continue to invest more energy in these smaller scaled operations, you're going to see a lot more offerings come in the future as we invest more time and energy to bringing some of those offerings out… We're going to play a huge part in sustainability. I think Cat Reman is going to be a conversation with our customers, conversation with political entities throughout the globe, and a conversation around the dinner table in regards to how we, as a society, can meet the challenges of climate change head on.

Billy Frank — I'm often reminded that, you know, well over 90% of everything that we buy has spent some time on a truck. And if it's spent some time on a truck, it's probably spent some time utilizing Cat Reman products in some way, shape or form… We play a role in helping a generator provide power to a hospital, helping a generator provide power to a bank, a data center, to helping move gas through a pipeline from one coast to another coast. To help a vessel get across an ocean.

It's these customer considerations that will continue to drive the evolution of Cat Reman.