Recent Columns
- Best Body Shops’ Tips: How to Position Your Collision Repair Shop for Sustainability
- In Reverse: Collision Repair Shops “ARM” Themselves
- From the Desk of Mike Anderson: Understanding and Performing the Needed Seat Calibrations
- Day Job/Night Job: Painter Donnie Inman’s Art Gets Him Out of Prison
- Best Body Shops’ Tips: Effective Repair Planning Utilizing PCE (Process-Centered Environment)
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Best Body Shops’ Tips: How to Position Your Collision Repair Shop for Sustainability
Over the last several years, the collision repair industry has undergone tremendous change and continues to do so, said John Shoemaker, business development manager at BASF Automotive Refinishing North America.
In Reverse: Collision Repair Shops “ARM” Themselves
From the start of the “modern” collision shop in the late 1940s up through the 1970s, body shops, as a business, were fairly crude by most standards.
From the Desk of Mike Anderson: Understanding and Performing the Needed Seat Calibrations
Written by Mike AndersonThe need for vehicle seat calibrations isn’t new. Many years ago, Will Latuff of Latuff Brothers Auto Body in Minnesota forwarded me information pertaining to a seat calibration needed on a Honda.
Day Job/Night Job: Painter Donnie Inman’s Art Gets Him Out of Prison
If you’re a pot grower, the last thing you want to do is get busted on Marijuana Eradication Day.
Best Body Shops’ Tips: Effective Repair Planning Utilizing PCE (Process-Centered Environment)
Many collision repairers are familiar with the process improvement methodologies such as Lean, Theory of Constraints and Six Sigma.
Do You Know Anyone Who Needs to “Digitally Diet?”
Many of us have been on diets over the years.
From the Desk of Mike Anderson: Skate to Where the “Puck” Is Going, Not Where It Has Been
Written by Mike AndersonEach year, I apply various presentation themes, and this year, I based my theme on something Wayne Gretzky, the legendary hockey player, once said.
In Reverse: The 1980s – “A Time of Awakening”
Those who have been in the collision industry for a long time remember the 1980s as the advent of automotive unibody construction.
Kool Tools: Pre-SEMA 2019
I have been conducting I-CAR mobile welding tests for 15 years now.
One of the commonalities between most collision repair shops is chaos.
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Best Body Shops’ Tips: A Roadmap to Repair Planning
You may be surprised to learn that many body shops create a “repair plan” at the end of the repair when everything has been documented and the final bill is created, according to Tim Ronak, senior services consultant at AkzoNobel.
Techs of Tomorrow: Cheerleader, Gymnastics Coach, Collision Repair Student All in One
Written by Victoria AntonelliEighteen-year-old Michelle Perschall discovered her love for automobiles at the age of four when her grandparents bought her a bright yellow racing Corvette Power Wheels.
Solving the Tech Shortage: Steps to Finding Qualified Employees
From coast to coast, collision repairers are talking about the talent pool shortage facing the industry and what can be done to address what some are calling an impending crisis.
Yelp Experts Yelp Back About Billion Dollar Bully
Body shop owners and Yelp experts who work with the collision repair industry weighed in recently about last month’s article (Does Yelp Bully Body Shops?) in the wake of Billion Dollar Bully, a documentary about how Yelp can adversely impact small businesses.