Our Cat®-trained men and women are critical to the success of your business. Over the next decade, Caterpillar and Cat dealers will be hiring tens of thousands of technicians just to meet your needs.

Cat Trial 10: Tech Test celebrates the amazing work of our Cat technicians and gives them the chance to show off their skills!

Technicians work in a fast-paced environment and this Tech Test combines exciting challenges with their skill and endurance.

The course consists of four challenges:
• The Cat Can Test is a 3D puzzle we designed; an oversized version some Cat® dealers use to gauge mechanical aptitude.
• Next, we test their desire to learn, where they’ll match Cat engines to specific applications.
• From there, they’ll hit the troubleshooting challenge, testing their knowledge of Cat services
• And they’ll finish with a safety mindset assessment, where they use the Cat App to do a walkaround and pull an order.

Our qualified technicians understand your business. They understand your industry. They have access to all the latest tools and technology. And they have a team of people who serve as mentors, who guide them and help them learn to be the ultimate troubleshooters, and they have access to Cat engineers.

Our qualifies technicians are experts, knowledgeable in a wide range of technologies:
• electronically controlled engines
• sophisticated computer-based diagnostics
• state-of-the-art hydraulics
• transmissions and more

And in the end, you’ll have technicians as invested in understanding and taking care of your equipment as you are in your business.

They let you focus on what you do best!
See our full range of CAT® TRIALS …  Cat Trials

Remember the hours you spent as a kid playing with Hot Wheels®? Maybe it was all those adventures in the sandbox. Or maybe it was the time you spent creating the most challenging track setups you could imagine. How cool would it be in real life? With Caterpillar, you don’t have to imagine it, as with Cat Trial 11: Hot Wheels® we’ve created an epic playground with the Next Generation Cat® Wheel Loaders and other Cat gear, incorporating life-sized versions of the cars you grew up with. Caterpillar brought in professional stunt drivers and track designers and equipment operators from around the country leaning on Cat machines and technology to bring it all to life.

Our top priority is the safety and well-being of our employees, customers, dealers, suppliers and communities. To ensure we continue to keep our stakeholders safe and meet the needs of customers we have implemented a range of proactive initiatives.

Our response is guided by advice from key health and government authorities and full detail is included in the EPSA Action Plan.

These measures include hygiene, social distancing and self-isolation protocols as well as having all but critical on-site employees work from home.

We are continuing to support our customers. We have Service Technicians in every state and are still able to provide interstate resources where a customer’s site is part of an essential service.

To keep our employees and customers safe during site visits our people will conduct a pre-site entry assessment against our COVID-19 Customer Checklist. Our Business Continuity is being assessed on a daily basis to ensure we can continue to support our customers and play our role in reducing the spread of this virus.

We know the work has changed. Check out the Caterpillar COVID-19 resource center here.

“With the help of skilled operators, we built a life-sized game board using the latest Cat machines, attachments and technology.”
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To meet their commercial peak shaving agreements (reducing energy use by shedding loads or by using onsite standby generation facilities during peak times) with the local power company, Yarra Valley Water’s Brushy Creek Sewerage Treatment Plant required a generator upgrade.

In late-2017, the Electrical Engineering Department approached EPSA for technical advice, and along with collaborative input from our Sales, Engineering and Project Services Departments we were able to come up with a “best value solution” for the customer, says Paul Rushbrooke, in EPSA’s Electric Power division.

“Project installation was completed in the last working week of 2018, with final commissioning in January, comprising a Cat® 3512 Diesel Generator rated to 1,500KVA housed in a custom-made
enclosure to address the limited footprint available on site.

“The ability of the 3500 series to take the extreme load steps required at high ambient conditions was a major factor in selecting this series engine. This importance of having reliable quality equipment to the customer was highlighted on the day of final completion testing, when the generator was called on to perform ‘peak shaving’ from the power company in 45-plus degree ambient conditions. This generator performed faultlessly at full load for extended periods of time as we claimed it would.”

Yarra Valley Water own and operate a network of sewer pipes and pump stations to collect sewage from customers. The treatment plant at Brushy Creek treats up to 13 million litres of sewage a day. It uses a form of the activated sludge treatment method to remove organic material and nitrogen from the sewage. Activated sludge treatment, introduced over 80 years ago, is one of the most common sewage treatment processes in use worldwide.

Dale Elphinstone was appointed an Officer (AO) of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Dale has been the dealer principal of William Adams Cat for over 40 years. William Adams is part of the Australian Cat® network, they design, manufacture and supply Cat® heavy equipment for mining and construction in Victoria and Tasmania. This award recognises Dale’s contribution to business and his philanthropic work. Dale said he was both humbled and very honoured to receive this award, and said it recognises the efforts and dedication of people in the many communities in which the Elphinstone Group operate.