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Overproduction: the core issue for collision shops
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, [...]
Boosting productivity in collision shops: Beyond waste
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, [...]
50 shades of geography. For collision shops, planning goes with location
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 [...]
