During a recent visit to Recycleur Duvernay, a well-established automotive recycler on Montreal's North Shore, Progi analysts were able to observe a recycler's entire business process. The purpose of the visit was to understand the customer journey, from vehicle purchase to inventory management and parts [...]
Tracking parts deliveries is taking way too much time? ProgiPac and EZ-Route, the winning combination for keeping control of your parts deliveries without spending all day on it! The EZ-Route solution, integrated with ProgiPac, has proved its worth with users who have adopted it. Follow [...]
Here’s the first article of our series dedicated to waste impairing productivity in collision shops. Overproduction is often considered the most serious of the seven types of waste in Lean methodology, as it has the potential to lead to the other waste types - waiting, [...]
When it comes to continuous improvement in collision shops, both experienced professionals and beginners often wonder where to start or what steps to take to optimize their shop. Once key processes, relevant objectives, an effective monitoring system and fluent team communication have been set up, [...]
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 [...]
The parts available through the Monidex catalog are at your fingertips. You will no longer need to contact Monidex for each of your searches, as the list of interchanges is accessible within ProgiPac. Just follow these simple steps to get started: 1. Configure the Monidex [...]
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 [...]
Fewer useless walks in the yard As the cold weather sets in, going to the end of the yard for a bad part is a huge waste of time and energy! With the new method for pre-identifying parts that are not good, the whole team wins. [...]
