Caterpillar has set the championship finals for its Global Operator Challenge.
Nine regional champions from around the world will compete at Conexpo in Las Vegas on Tuesday, March 10, 2020, for the title Global Operator Challenge Champion. The finals will take place in a specially built stadium inside Caterpillar’s Booth #F4455 at the outdoor Festival Grounds.
Seventy Cat dealers from 30 countries, representing 22 different languages, kicked off the program by holding local operator challenges from March through September 2019. More than 10,000 operators participated in these local events.
Participants’ operating skills were put to the test through a range of machines and tasks. Operators were scored on speed, accuracy and operating best practices, with penalties imposed for errors. The operator with the lowest overall time for all tasks was acknowledged as the local champion and moved onto the regional championships.
The best local operators competed at one of three Caterpillar sites for the regional championships. North and South America regional finals were held in Clayton, North Carolina; European finals in Málaga, Spain; and Asia Pacific finals in Chichibu, Japan.
The regional competition challenges, designed to test skill and precision under pressure, tested not only operators’ abilities on machines they use every day but also had them adapt their skills to equipment for which they may not be as familiar. The operator had to exhibit a broad range of talents on multiple machines, Caterpillar says, including displaying their skills with advanced machine technologies.
Source: Caterpillar
