Peterson Cat Tech Stack
Caterpillar heavy equipment dealer network across three western states
Peterson Cat operates 42 locations across Northern California, Oregon, and southwest Washington as part of Caterpillar's dealer network, serving construction, forestry, agriculture, and government sectors. The tech stack leans heavily on design and field-service tools (AutoCAD, Revit, SolidWorks, Trimble) paired with Salesforce for CRM, reflecting a business model centered on equipment sales, parts distribution, and field service delivery. Engineering hiring remains elevated relative to sales, and active projects span standby power systems, marine shipbuilding, and large data center construction—indicating capability to move beyond standard equipment sales into custom solutions.
Tech Stack 10 technologies
What Peterson Cat Is Building
◆Challenges
- Skills competency gaps
- Maximizing project profitability
- Staffing shortage for shop technicians
- Implementing performance management system
- Delivering large complex projects
- Maintaining quality across supplier facilities
- Improving work procedures
- Reducing incident rates
- Inefficient cva process
- Developing training strategy
▲Active Projects
- Repower
- Cat interact program
- Marine ship building
- Large data center construction
- Safety training program development
- Customer solution quoter configuration
- Standby power systems submittals
- Incident trend monitoring and corrective action implementation
- New cva process development
- Companywide performance management system implementation
