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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 [...]
A good mindset to innovate and get out of Death Valley as a collision shop
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 [...]
Winter’s here, how should I adjust the production in my collision shop?
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 [...]
