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Joint Venture Creates Potential Work For H&HS

Caterpillar and Navistar have signed a

definitive agreement, to form a joint venture

pursuing medium-and heavy-duty truck

opportunities in markets outside North

America, and to cooperate in the design

and manufacture of Caterpillar vocational

trucks in North America. These two

business ventures are in addition to

cooperation between Caterpillar and

Navistar in areas such as engines,

purchasing, remanufacturing, and logistics.

Our goal is to build strong and profitable

new businesses for both companies, while

leveraging other opportunities for

collaboration into reduced cost and

additional strategic opportunities.

In order to provide our customers long-term value and solid return on investment, we must explore a

more integrated truck solutions to meet business needs. Our alliance with Navistar positions us to

do just that. Navistar’s expertise in the design, development and manufacturing of

trucks, combined with Caterpillar’s industry-leading technologies, customer support and intimate

knowledge of worksite and operator environments, will provide customers with a world-class and

fully integrated line of vocational trucks.

Caterpillar and Navistar engineers have already begun development on this new line of trucks.

The new line of vocational trucks is scheduled to be introduced in late 2010 with production targets

set for mid-2011. These purpose-built trucks will be sold and serviced exclusively through the Cat

Dealer network and will present many new opportunities for you and your business.

What does this mean for ASD? This great opportunity introduces the potential to sell hydraulics and

TBU’s transmissions in this new line of trucks and strengthen our business in this very competitive

market segment.

Sustainability & Cost Reduction Issue

During the economic downturn, there is nothing more important then improving sustainability and

cutting costs. This issue is packed with cost saving tips and ideas that you can use at work and

home to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Articles included are:

• Phone Cost Reductions (pg. 2)

• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (pg. 3)

• Computer Savings (pg.4)

• Email Cost Caterpillar $$ (pg. 4)

• Diet Tips That Save The Planet (pg. 5)

Revised Joliet Environmental, Health, & Safety Team

Please see Environmental, Health, & Safety updates below. In addition, please be patient as

the EH&S team updates communication posters throughout the facility.

Phone Cost Reductions

The Caterpillar Production System created a way to help

cut cost and unnecessary expenses called “Chase Waste”.

We can all make small changes to help Caterpillar remain

profitable in the “trough.” With small changes in our

teleconferencing habits we can make a big difference.

Think about how often you and your colleagues log into the

same conference call or Same-time session from your

individual desks? Did you know that you can save the

corporation money by simply “grouping up” to attend in one

location?

Did you know Caterpillar is charged per-employee, per-minute for AT&T audio bridge calls. It may not

seem like a vast benefit, but when added up across the company, it can amount to a noticeable

savings. Also, remember that IP phones can conference up to six connections. Try to use this

capability instead of setting up an AT&T bridge for a smaller conference call.

When you pick up your phone to call a coworker, think about what type of line you are calling them

on. It is less expensive to call a Coworker from a cell phone to cell phone and office line to office line,

then cell phone from your desk and vice versa. Think about what you can do to help pitch in!

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Earth Day was observed on April 22nd as a time to celebrate and reflect

the gains we have made in the effort to save our planet. It was a time to

unite around the world and take new actions to secure our children's

future. Earth Day and every day is a time to act to protect our planet.

Though Earth Day has come and gone, there are many things you can do

on a daily basis to help at home, in the classroom, and at work, to make

everyday an Earth Day!

Everyday is Earth Day

Things you can do:

• Start a carpool

• Reduce energy use

• Apply green building principles to your office buildings

• Clean Green

• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle office products

• Plant a tree

• Turn off computer monitors

• Turn off lights when not in room to use them.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle In the past few years, Team Caterpillar has done its part to help reduce its

carbon foot print on our planet. In the Joliet facility the Recycling team has

rolled out recycling bins not only for the office area but for the shop areas as

well. Though we do a great deal in our effort to recycle everyday, there are

many things that we do not stop to think about in our daily routine that can be

recycled.

• The paper wrapper from the reams of paper for the printer is recyclable and can be put in the

white paper bin.

• Your plastic container from your TV dinner for lunch, as long as it is a 1 or 2, can be wiped out

and put in the plastic bottle bin.

• The box that your TV dinner comes in can be recycled in the mixed paper bin.

• Use a Brita pitcher and a reusable eco friendly water bottle.

• Clean out your desk and put back all those extra office supplies that you are not using.

• Write/Print on both sides of your paper, to help save a tree.

• Save your e-mails. Don’t print them if not necessary.

• If it is a bright sunny day and you have windows in your office, work with your light off.

• When leaving your office/cubical for a prolonged period of time, you can turn your light and turn

your computer monitor off.

Computer Savings Turning your computer off when you leave at night is

just one energy-saving idea that Caterpillar

employees have thought of. Building Construction

Products (BCP) is just one of the many Caterpillar

divisions asking employees to share their energy

and cost savings ideas. Recently, an employee

submitted the following the idea:

“Require all employees to turn off their computers at

the end of the day. This could help us reduce our

energy costs. Communicate to all employees that

use desktop PC's to shutdown their machine when

they leave the office. Over time, significant savings

in electrical consumption can accrue.”

A team at BCP researched this idea and discovered some staggering statistics: • Nearly half of all corporate computers in the United States do not get turned off at night, costing

U.S. businesses $1.72 billion in annual energy costs and sending 14.4 million tons of carbon

dioxide into the atmosphere every year.

• One desktop computer running 24 hours a day, 5 days a week costs about $102 a year in

energy usage. Running the same computer for only 8 hours a day costs roughly $34 a year.

That’s a potential cost saving of $68 per year per computer.

What we can do about it: Screensavers are not an energy-saving option! The computer and monitor are still on and

consuming full power, even in screensaver mode.

• Turn off your Monitor: When leaving for an extended period of time shut off your monitor, after

a period of inactiveness you computer will go to standby mode, during this time most computers

only consume about 2 watts of electricity.

• Shutdown Mode: When you shut down the computer, it closes everything and turns off. This

provides the computer an opportunity to clean up all the memory and minimizes computer

malfunction.

Email Cost Caterpillar $$

A recent example of an Email message sent to 30,000 employees included an attachment that

contained 1,968,000 bytes. The storage cost for one month for sending this attachment in the

message was $1,300. If a large number of the recipients save this message for reference for several

months, this one message could cost Caterpillar $40,000 annually. If this same message were

placed in a single safe source and linked to the Email message, the cost to Caterpillar would be less

than $50 annually.

What you can do to help:

• Avoid using attachments whenever possible.

• Use SIFT (Secure Internet File Transfer)

to send large attachments. (i.e. PDF)

• Do not include attachments in mass mailings, send a link if

possible

• Minimize the use of graphics in e-mail letterhead. (i.e. jpg or PDF)

• Avoid the use of graphics in the signature block.

• Minimize document retention.

• Know how many people are in the group you are e-mailing.

Looking to shed a few pounds before the summer? Losing weight is not only great for your health -- it's

also good for the environment.

• Eat fresh fruits, vegetables, and other real foods. High amounts of salt, sugar, and other

unhealthy ingredients can hide in packaged foods. In fact, some flavored yogurts can contain

more sugar than ice cream, according to Dara O'Rourke at Good Guide, a database that can

help you find healthy and environment-friendly foods. Manufacturing, packaging, and

transporting processed foods to the store typically requires a large amount of energy and

resources.

• Stay away from high-fructose corn syrup. It can make you fat and is linked to diabetes.

Massive amounts of fertilizers are used to grow corn, and these chemicals are eroding

America's soil and polluting the Gulf of Mexico.

• Choose lean protein such as chicken, eggs, sustainable seafood, and legumes. It's not high in

saturated fat and fills you up so you're not looking for your next meal too quickly. Red meat, in

particular, takes a huge toll on the environment. Raising livestock is one of the most significant

contributors to a long list of environmental problems from climate change to deforestation to

water pollution.

• Replace high-calorie soft drinks with filtered tap water. Obviously, anything you can do to cut

calories is a win for your body. How does it benefit the earth? Fewer resources are needed to

make bottles and cans and ship them to stores. It also puts less pressure on landfills.

• Cook your own meals instead of eating out at restaurants. It's harder to control portions when

you go out to eat, and you have no control over whether healthy ingredients are used to

prepare your meal. Besides, restaurants end up wasting a lot of perfectly good food.

• Walk and bike more. Exercise is a major component of any healthy weight loss program. You'll

burn more calories and less gas by leaving your car at home.

• Don't deprive yourself. Satisfy your sweet tooth with a little bit of fair-trade dark chocolate.

Studies show that the antioxidants present in dark chocolate can help lower blood pressure.

Fair-trade cocoa farmers are paid fair wages, which allows them to take good care of their

land.

For more information go to:

http://green.yahoo.com/blog/the_conscious_consumer/65/diet-tips-that-save-the-planet.html.

Diet Tips That Save The Planet

May 2009 Service Anniversaries Celebrating 670 years of service!

Thomas Anderson 35 yrs Assembly & Test Specialist-3

Jerry Baggett 35 yrs Lathe Specialist-3

Paul Brown 35 yrs Metal Working Specialist-3

Donald Crater 35 yrs Assembly & Test Specialist-3

William Elliott 35 yrs Metal Working Specialist-3

Wallace Farrar 35 yrs Sr Manufacturing Specialist

Daniel Frey 35 yrs Quality Specialist-4

Gerald Graf 35 yrs Implement & Cntrl Systems Mg

Dennis Greminger 35 yrs Assembly & Test Specialist-3

Ronald Haga 35 yrs Materials Specialist-2

Lizzie Jones 35 yrs Assembly & Test Specialist-3

Joy Knobloch 35 yrs Drafting Technician

Essie Musgrove 35 yrs Materials Specialist-2

Leonard Parish Jr 35 yrs Fabrication Specialist-3

Carol Beatty 20 yrs Cylinder Logistics Project Manager

Jose Lopez Dominguez 20 yrs Special Assignment

Paul Jantz 20 yrs Quality Manager

Christopher Benjamin 15 yrs Machine Repair Mechanic-6

Larraine Cox 15 yrs Materials Specialist-2

Ed Dean 15 yrs Laboratory/Support Engineer

Lori Murrell 15 yrs Materials Specialist-3

William Ronna 15 yrs Machine Specialist-4

Colleen Appleton 10 yrs Senior IT Analyst

Ian Enger 10 yrs Operations & Support Mg

Daniel Lattz 10 yrs Manufacturing Manager

Stacey Morris 10 yrs 6 Sigma Black Belt-2

Crystal Chaney 5 yrs Sr Schedule Analyst

Jeremiah Johnson 5 yrs Sr Engineer-Design

Joseph Lin 5 yrs Manufacturing Trainee-II

Monica O’Brien 5 yrs Logistics Planning Analyst

Manohari Ramesh 5 yrs Sr Engineer-Development/Res

May 2009 Retirees Congratulations & Thank you for 36 years of service!

Dave Fritz 36 years

April 2009 Promotions & Transfers

Bala Balashanmugam Jonathan Buelow

Vivek Dubey Carl McIlheran

Chris Morency

*The Hydraulic Flow will now be published on a monthly basis. If you have any articles

to submit please contact Dixie Wiley at ext 6850 or Rebecca Ruettiger at ext 5477. Thank You!