Caterpillar D2 Series New Product Development: Changing for the Chinese Market

Caterpillar's new D2 series products designed for the Chinese market have recently met the public for the first time. These include the new three D2 series hydraulic excavators and a wheeled excavator.
According to Zhou Ge, excavator product manager at Caterpillar, Caterpillar has designed different product configurations for different types of users. Generally, users in China can be divided into three categories: general earthwork users, mainly equipment rental users with hourly returns, focusing on overall operating costs, and this category of users accounts for 40% of the total sales; heavy Earthworks users, equipment work intensity is greater, the proportion is 30%; users of mines and quarrying equipment, the proportion is 30%, such users pay great attention to the productivity of the equipment, such as how much material is installed, how much is dug Stone, calculate the cost based on the tonnage of the equipment.
Cat320D as an example, according to the needs of users have different product configurations, for example, some focus on productivity, and some focus on the use of cost, can be divided into Cat320D (standard engineering field), Cat320D2 GC (general earth field), and Cat320D QM (mine and quarrying) product configuration for three different application types. The Cat320D and Cat320D QM excavators are configurations designed for users looking for performance. Redesigned the track shoes of the QM series to change the three-section track to two-section track, which not only speeds up the walking speed of the equipment, but also strengthens the track strength. It is installed for high load parts such as booms and sticks. Reinforced ribs. (This article comes from Caterpillar click to enter Caterpillar online purchase page )