SCANNING INTO THE FUTURE
At the end of July, AkzoNobel hosted a group of students for an Acoat Estimating, Consistency and Documenting Damage course. Designed to review and refine estimator skills relative to collision repair estimating, the event was held at AkzoNobel’s Ontario headquarters and training centre, and was led by Aaron Hebb, AkzoNobel service consultant. SCANNING INTO THE […]
PRECISION IN PRACTICE
PRECISION IN PRACTICE UPGRADE YOUR RECORDS FROM PAPER TO DATA PLATFORMS In the fast-paced world of automotive repair and collision services, accuracy and efficiency are paramount. As the industry moves more and more into the digital age, the days of paper and pencils continue to fall to the wayside in favour of a digital data […]
FROM PAPERS TO IPADS
FROM PAPERS TO IPADS THE INDUSTRY’S WORDS ON WEB-BASED PLATFORMS Those with their toes in the industry for a few decades will know how tedious writing estimates used to be. Heck, some of you might have carpal tunnel to prove it. Today’s estimating systems, contrary to the pen-and-paper methods of the past, are almost entirely […]
A SCANNER-SMARTLY
A SCANNER-SMARTLY CLEVER CARS REQUIRE CLEVER TOOLS If there is one thing that the introduction of widespread pre-and post-repair scanning has brought to the industry, it is a widespread realization about how much insufficient estimation processes result in unnecessary work—the last thing any busy business needs. As Kelly Roberts, long-time collision repair manager who now […]
