Category: Process Stability

Search

Process Stability

How To Be A Great Production Manager

Whether you operate a small shop or a big shop, someone has to manage all those cars and people out in the shop – you might as well get great at it, right?

Dave Luehr November 5, 2019

Leadership

A Global Approach To Making Money

The Problem Many industry experts teach shop leaders that the best way to ensure profitability is through the “job costing” method. Job costing is a

Dave Luehr October 6, 2019

Process Stability

The Journey to Operational Excellence

One of the commonalities between most collision repair shops is chaos. I believe many shop owners have become complacent with chaos, chalking it up as

Dave Luehr September 6, 2019

Process Stability

Creating a High-Quality Value Stream

One could easily debate that an auto body shop is an unlikely place to see an assembly line, especially when you try to visualize “assembly

Dave Luehr August 14, 2019

Leadership

Importance of Leadership Training and Skills to Include in the Program

If you want your company’s leaders and managers to transform the organization for the better, create efficiencies, increase employee engagement and inspire them, and then

Dave Luehr August 4, 2019

Process Stability

Smart, Simple Scheduling

For collision shops that want to improve cycle time and decrease unnecessary work-in-process (WIP), scheduling is a necessity. However, I also believe far too many

Dave Luehr June 10, 2019

Leadership

Problems Are Opportunities!

There are many commonalities between the homeless living on Skid Row, the mediocre, and the successful. Each may have received a low or high-degree of

Dave Luehr April 14, 2019

Process Stability

Is it a Delivery List or a Wish List?

A common practice I have noticed among hugely successful collision repair shops is that they hold daily production meetings and discuss an accurate delivery list.

Dave Luehr July 10, 2018