Caterpillar / MAK Forum

[Madzng]

Stubbled across this today,

Could be useful for any one with MAk or Caterpillar engines.

https://caterpillar.lithium.com/caterpillar/

Hamburg, Germany – Caterpillar Marine Power Systems (CMPS) has launched a new online forum designed to share product experience. The forum at http://www.Marine.Cat.com will provide a unique platform for existing and prospective customers to exchange opinions, questions and solutions related to Caterpillar® marine products and beyond. The move is also meant to fuel open and honest communication within the maritime community and to share the vast amount of application know-how which has been gathered with thousands of Cat® and MaK marine engines operating on the seven seas.

Online communities are becoming increasingly important for both consumer products and business-to-business applications. CMPS is the second division within Caterpillar to launch such an initiative and follows the community debut of Caterpillar’s Electric Power Generation division in late 2008. The new online forum does not replace any of the existing customer service platforms, like the Application Support Center, or individual solutions at the various Caterpillar dealerships. However, it will provide existing and prospective customers an additional opportunity to network online.

"Join, discuss, solve" – this is the overall theme of the CMPS online forum. Initially, Caterpillar has set up nine different channels to share ideas: Cat Product, MaK Product, Engine Selection, Technologies, Sustainability, Regulations & Standards, Financial Services, Engine Room Discussions and General Topics. Experts from CMPS will monitor the discussions and provide additional support and advice if necessary. This also allows Caterpillar to gather direct customer opinions and feed them back into the organisation where appropriate.

First and foremost, the CMPS online forum fosters peer-to-peer interaction. From an enterprise perspective, however, the forum also dovetails future product and service offerings with customer needs in a new way. And because of the direct feedback from the field, potential issues will be detected and resolved quicker than ever before.

"Join, discuss, solve" opens up both a new area of customer interaction and marketing opportunity. The CMPS online forum complements the existing communication efforts perfectly and also significantly increases the CMPS web presence at http://www.Marine.Cat.com, which is a critical part of today’s business.

[TxMarEng]

Good forum ~ they also haveone for the power generation sector.