This is Alex, your capacity planning expert at Progi. Often, when the seasons change, I publish an article on the impact of seasonality on your collision shop’s capacity. This time, we’ll approach the subject from a more specific angle: your reality, based on your geographic [...]
Every time your local pizza place decides to reinvent the wheel and add a new pizza to the menu for a limited edition, it’s likely that this menu item will be one of the least profitable. Employees will need to be trained, new elements added [...]
You’ve decided to take action. You’re new in a workshop management position, you’ve bought a workshop, and you’re overwhelmed by the situation. But one thing is certain: you want to improve, make a profit, and build the future of your workshop. Where to start? That’s [...]
Hello, this is Alex. Let’s discuss today a topic that can be critical in the world of waste in collision shops: inventory management. It’s well known, we like to have everything on hand in the shop. There is something reassuring about seeing shelves stocked with [...]
Hello, This is Alex from Progi. We are already on our second article focusing on collision shop waste. The good old waste well known in Lean methodology. Today, the focus is on waiting, one of the major sources of unproductivity, and I offer a few [...]
When planning our capacity, it’s quite simple: we want to bring to our collision shop as much work as possible, while keeping a workload that makes us efficient, so that we can deliver in the optimal cycle time for our operations. The severity grid is [...]
I refer to “Death Valley” as a mindset in which collision shop managers deny the opportunity to evolve. It’s a kind of mental prison that condemns to failure. Of course, it is never a fault to be unsure of how to go further. But refusing [...]
We are Canadians. And in Canada, as in the Game of Thrones show, Winter is coming. This is an inescapable reality. And winter, in the collision shop industry across Canada, is what we call our high season. Soon, order books will explode and the yards [...]
The 2020s brought its share of surprises. COVID-19 hit us hard. There was no work left in the market. Once things gradually returned to normal, delays to get parts were endless. Then the pandemic subsided, some collision shops closed down and the labour shortage hit. [...]
