Bottlenecks are unfortunately quite common in a shop’s production line. They can have serious consequences and the resulting loss of productivity directly impacts profitability and prevents shops from achieving maximum returns. Longer cycle times, overtime, more energy spent for the same results, stress for the [...]
Charles Aubry and Stephanie Filteau from Progi were very excited to visit the mythical Axalta facilities. This visit gave Progi and Axalta the opportunity to talk about new technologies in the auto painting world and also to share on best practices regarding capacity planning in [...]
Behind this success are the auto body master and shop manager Patrick Morin, his team and their secret weapon: ProgiPlanning. Patrick Morin and his team are not new to success. However, they wanted a tool to optimize their best practices and gain better control of [...]
The purchase and resale of auto parts represent approximately 50% of a body shop’s revenues. Furthermore, a weak parts procurement process can be the source of many headaches when it comes to business and productivity. It is important for shop managers to take a good [...]
AS PUBLISHED IN COLLISION REPAIR MAG (Buyer's Guide): Last spring, Progi officially launched ProgiPlanning, its capacity manager, all across Canada. Progi’s approach is to help collision shops meet their current and future challenges by providing digital solutions that help improve their business processes. Diane Chaîné, [...]
First of all, what is a performance indicator? It is a measurable index that lets you track the success of your organization. It is used to set goals that can be monitored during production to find out if you are on the right track. You [...]
In the fall of 2019, Groupe Saillant started using ProgiPlanning, a capacity planning solution for collision shops. In addition to the CSR, the main users of the solution are Philippe Denoncourt, shop manager, and Jonathan Baribeau, production coordinator. At first, they found the assessment of [...]
A common practice in the bodywork industry is to receive all vehicles on Monday mornings to hopefully deliver them on the Friday. In terms of productivity, this practice often leads to poor performance in the workshop or even exhaustion of team members. Why? First, bottlenecks [...]
Canadian collision shops are usually familiar with the .3, a symbolic indicator in the industry. What is the mythical .3? To make things clearer, .3 is the number by which the total number of estimate hours for a repair is multiplied. The result is the [...]
