Trois-Rivières, December 14, 2022 — On December 14, Progi donated money and food items to Moisson Mauricie. Geneviève Marchand, assistant director at Moisson Mauricie, was at Progi’s office to officially receive the donations. At Progi, charitable activities are called ProgiDonation. At the beginning of December, [...]
Trois-Rivières, December 1, 2022 — On December 1st, Quebec vehicles sold at the ProgiPix car auction will become available to all buyers with a Canadian operating licence. This change will come with several other initiatives of interest to both vehicle buyers and auto recyclers. ProgiPix [...]
Progi is now offering basic and advanced training for collision shop managers and owners. These trainings will provide skills to optimize production and introduce continuous improvement principles. The Progi team has been designing its training program for over two years. In June 2022, we held [...]
Do you live in a place where the winters are harsh, and the summers are beautiful and warm? If so, seasonality will impact your collision shop, which is the case for most Canadian shops. Having a good severity chart is often one of the most [...]
It’s the late ’80s… Pièces d’Autos Turcotte, an automobile recycler in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada is thinking of computerizing its business by acquiring a product that could help with sales, accounting, and inventory. The company looked at was available on the market and consulted fellow recyclers. [...]
This has become a daily situation; there is one coveted part left at the dealership and three body shops buy it at the same time. Only one of them will get it, creating mayhem for the other two. Next arrival: days, months? These days, anything [...]
In the last few articles, we have learned and unravelled six of our seven performance rules for optimizing capacity at collision shops. In summary, a good communication with the team, a sound methodology and a strong capacity planning and analysis tool are the three main [...]
You order a part from a recycler. It’s a nice quality A part. You even saw the picture. However, upon reception you realize that it’s more of a C or D quality part. Your supplier may have oversold the part’s quality, or the part may [...]
It’s autumn 2021 and the labour shortage is in full swing. Even before this endemic labour shortage hit the market, the collision shop world was already suffering from a significant lack of succession. It’s hard to believe that we now live in a world where if [...]
