TRAINING

REVIEW
SOHAM SENGUPTA
PSID – 0596904
SUPERVISOR – PRAVEEN KOTHA
DATED – 26.09.2013
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 CONTENTS

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 CLMS Required Learning
Enterprise Required
Learning
6 Sigma Yellow Belt Awareness
Conflicts of Interest
Effective Communications
Electronic Communications
Fraud Detection and
Prevention
Information Protection
Guidelines (IPG)
Information Security
Awareness
Insider Trading: Guidelines
and Considerations
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Business Unit Required
Learning
Basic Principles of Business
Risk Management (BRM)
Caterpillar Production System -
Yellow Belt Training
Data Privacy
Managing Our Information
Assets (CRMP)
Records Management
Fundamentals (CRMP)
The Cat Brand Experience
 6 Sigma Yellow Belt Awareness
• What is 6 sigma?
At Caterpillar, we use a definition of 6 Sigma that has three main elements, viz.

1. Metric – 6 sigma level = 3.4 defects per 1 million opportunities

2. Methodology 3. Management system

St
ra
te
gy
Portfolio

Improvement
Process
Creation
Management
Process
Process
(DMEDI)
(DMAIC)
(PDCA)
Project

Process

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 Conflicts of Interest
• What is conflict of interest?

A situation of conflict of interest arises when one’s involvement in a

situation can influence its outcome for personal profit.

• What should be done to avoid conflict of interest?

i. Ensure your relationships don’t cloud your judgment

ii. Immediately disclose any potential conflicts of interest.
iii. Be thorough with all the related policies and guidelines

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 Effective Communications
• What is effective communication?
To be effective in business it is necessary that Caterpillar employees
communicate their thoughts and ideas to others both inside and outside of the
company.

• Basic Guidelines
o State the facts
• Emails
• Avoid • Letters
o Motives • Handwritten Notes
o Generalizations • Teleconference/
o Exaggerations Videoconference
o Conclusions • Presentations
• Formal memorandums
etc.

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 Electronic Communications
• The purpose of this module is to make all users aware of their rights and
responsibilities in relation to Caterpillar electronic communication systems
and equipment.

• Risks of electronic communications

Risk to Risks for

organization individuals

• Caterpillar policy letter 25

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 Fraud Detection and Prevention
• This module is based on occupational fraud that costs billions of dollars
and damage to personal reputations, relationships and careers.

• Module Objectives
o Detection
o And Prevention of frauds.
Through some practical examples.

For employees ways to Who prevents occupational

prevent occupational fraud fraud?
o Board of directors
 Help create a culture of o Audit committee
honesty o Management
 Be aware of warning o Auditors
signs o Anti-fraud specialists
 Report irregularities

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 Information Protection Guidelines (IPG)
• The information protection guidelines detailed in this module provide the
structure needed to balance the sharing of information with company’s
trusted business partners, while at the same time preventing certain
information from reaching the competitors.

• Caterpillar’s IPG consists of two processes

i. Information sharing
ii. Information protection

• Roles and Responsibilities • Caterpillar Red

 Information owner
 Information delegate • Caterpillar Yellow
 Information custodian
 Information author • Caterpillar Green
 Information user
 Information subject • Non confidential

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 Information Security Awareness
Quality information security related behaviour is critical to protect the
Caterpillar network and the information it contains.
Keywords
Keywords –– Information,
Information, Information
Information asset,
asset, Integrity,
Integrity, Confidentiality,
Confidentiality,
Availability,
Availability, Value
Value

Passwords

Mobile users Emails

Critical
information
security
items/threats
Responsible
use of
Malwares
internet at
work
Social
engineering
and social
networks

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 Insider Trading: Guidelines and Considerations

Material information is information about a

Trading in stock company that a reasonable person would
consider to be important when deciding
Insider trading whether to buy or sell that company's stock.
Passing material
information or
“tipping”

Types of insider
Consequences of insider trading
• Tipper – an insider that passes
• Stock market material non-public material to
• Corporate level another person who doesn’t have
• Individual any legitimate reason to know
the information.
• Tippee – tippee is the receiver of
the information from tipper.

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 Basic Principles of Business Risk Management (BRM)
• Risk is anything that obstructs company’s objectives.
• In Caterpillar terminology BRM is

Identify Assess Manage

• Necessary components of a robust BRM process

i. Foster a culture that promotes growth and development of BRM.
ii. Establish a reporting process through BRM overview committee.
iii. Allocate adequate resources for BRM activities.
iv. Identify, assess and manage risk proactively through process owners.
v. Ensure BRM activity is value added, focusing on risk within processes.
vi. Utilize BRM methods and tools that are transferrable, consistent, documented,
integrated and comprehensive.
vii. Incorporate deliverables and metrics.

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 Caterpillar Production System - Yellow Belt Training
• The goal of CPS is to eliminate the 8 Wastes in order to consistently
improve quality, reduce cost, and shorten lead times.
• Unused creativity, inventory, defects, over production, waiting, excess motion,
transportation, over processing

• CPS consists of 3 subsystems and 15 guiding principles .

• Chase Waste
• Pull
• Make Value Flow
Operating • Drive Standard Work
• Even the Load
(uses 6 sigma & lean tools to • Validate Our Processes
eliminate 8 wastes)

• Put Safety First

• Take the Customer's View
• Go, See, Act
• Stop to Fix
• Develop People
Management (creates Cultural
measurement and (makes changes and • Actively Listen
management improves work • Make it Visual
structures) environment) • Align the Targets
• Act Decisively

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 Data Privacy
• What is data privacy?
While definitions vary throughout the world, data privacy is essentially the ability of
individuals to either control or significantly influence the processing of personal information
about themselves.
In addition to support our business integrity, data privacy has far reaching effect on the
following – stakeholder’s trust, legal and regulatory factors, data flows and transfers.

Seven privacy principles

 Notice GOVERNANCE
 Choice
 Onward Transfer
 Access Business Practices Committee - the process
owner
 Data Integrity
 Security
 Compliance

Data Privacy Advisory Group - chartered with the

development of an enterprise Data Privacy Policy and
strategy.

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Managing Our Information Assets (CRMP)

• Records management focus

a. Establishing retention rules for all types of information.
b. Ownership and maintenance of Corporate Procedure No. 1:15 corporate Records
Management
c. Support of Caterpillar Policy 25: Electronic Communications
d. Facilitating the sharing of knowledge and information assets
e. Supporting facility certification compliance
f. Promoting one “safe source” for official records (i.e. tax compliance records –
Corporate Tax would be the "safe source", purchase orders – Global Purchasing
would be the “safe source”)
g. Partnering with Corporate Auditing & Compliance to audit facility knowledge levels
of information management
h. Support of legislative compliance for record retention guidelines
i. Providing data migration guidance
j. Involvement with business continuity planning
k. Partnering with Global IT to evaluate life cycle management technologies

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 Records Management Fundamentals (CRMP)
Benefits Retention process

ease of retrieval Do you

have a • Step 1
corporate wide consistency of retention
record?
thoroughness of record reduction
Find a
the protection of vital and historical records retention • Step 2
time
increase staff productivity

reduce costs Review

your • Step 3
save space retention
times

A record is any information which has been made or received by an organization

• in connection with the transaction of business, or
• for legal reasons.
A record may exist on different mediums - paper, film, disk, or other physical type or
form. The method of recording may be manual, mechanical, photographic, electronic,
or any other combination of these or other technologies.

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 The Cat Brand Experience
• This module highlights the importance of brand in business success,
customer expectations and demonstrates the role of an employee in
creating a consistent brand experience.

Global Brand Global Brand

Marketing Management

CAT Brand
Management Exceptional
team
Customers

Value and Products and

growth Cat solutions
Benefits of
Stockholders
a brand
Dealers brand
messag
e
Caterpillar
facilities
Support
Culture
network

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 Surface mesh

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Mesh Control
 Geometric cleanup
1. Apply fine surface mesh
to the region of interest
2. Merge all the separate
faces of each
letter/number.
3. Go to Assembly > align >
planar
4. Select the faces to be
removed.
5. Define the plane onto
which the numbers are
imprinted
6. Merge all the leveled
edges with the main
plane
7. Re-mesh locally

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 Volume mesh

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 Mesh Quality
After surface mesh, mesh quality is controlled by the following ways

Go to Meshing then check for free edges and element

intersections.

Check for cracks, holes and control element aspect

ratio limit from Autocleanup.

If there are any cracks or free/non manifold edges

then go to cleanup and use collapse to remove free
edges. Use create element to fill up holes or cracks

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Surface definitions
Export to ABAQUS
Editing input decks
Intake valve