Caterpillar Plant Makes a Change
Through thoughtful engineering, Catepillar’s Mapleton, Ill., metalcasting facility avoided becoming obsolete and found a new way to thrive.
SHEA GIBBS, SENIOR EDITOR, AND ALFRED SPADA, PUBLISHER 卡特彼勒进行了更
但面对逆境Mapleton厂的工程师们非但没有关门，而是找到一种方法重新改造 设备，生产中短期的缸体、缸盖和商业铸件。
SHEA GIBBS, 编辑, ALFRED SPADA, 发布 C
aterpillar was faced with a critical decision regarding its metalcasting facilities during 2005. “The economics of recapitalizing [an] existing facility were analyzed versus enter-
ing [a] joint venture in Mexico,” said the technical man- ager of Caterpillar’s Cast Metals Organization during a 2007 interview. Te final vote was to invest in Mexico, and 70% of the business at Caterpillar’s Mapleton, Ill., facility was to be moved across the border. Caterpillar had decided to launch Technocast, a joint venture in Saltillo, Mexico, that several years later would
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005年卡特彼勒面对着一项关于其铸造设备 的关键性决定。
“注资现有设备还是进入墨西哥的合资企业已 经经过了分析。” 卡特彼勒的铸造金属组织的技术经理 在2007年接受采访时说。
最终的投票是在墨西哥投资，并且在伊利诺伊州
Mapleton的卡特彼勒公司，设备业务的70％将被移过 边界。卡特彼勒决定在墨西哥的萨尔蒂约启动Techno- cast，若干年后，那里将开始生产大部分（如果不是全 部）目前在Mapleton生产的成品灰铸铁发动机缸体和
Cat Mapleton’s overhauled cope and drag line relies on one of the world’s largest robots.
Cat Mapleton检修过的上箱和下箱生产线依赖于世界上最大 的机器人之一。（照片1）
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