Collision Repair 19#6

Collision Repair Collision Repair 19#6

BREAKING THE GROUND – The struggles and successes of starting out

BY TOM BISSONNETTE I fell into the auto body trade almost by accident. My car had been in an accident and I took it to a local shop where I got to know the owner and manager and we became friends. My original vocation was a mechanic at a local farm machinery dealership. My father […]

December 17, 2020

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WHEN IT COMES TO TRAINING, THE TIME IS NOW – ‘Later’ is a Synonym for ‘Never’

BY STEFANO LIESSI Does anyone remember the year 2000, and all the speculative horrors associated with the roll over from 1999? All the computers were predicted to crash, stock markets would shut down, electrical grids would perish, and we would be left in the dark ages. When New Years Day arrived, nothing happened. The odd […]

December 17, 2020

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FIND YOUR MISSING PIECE – How do you hire the perfect fit?

BY CHELSEA STEBNER RIGHT PEOPLE. RIGHT BUS. RIGHT SEAT? We hear so much about making sure we’re all hiring the right people to join our teams. When it comes right down to it, how do we really know? I bet that none of us are HR experts or have specialized training in that area and […]

December 17, 2020

THE NUMBERS GAME – Pay attention to what KPIs are telling you

BY JAY PERRY There is a great deal of emphasis on key performance indicators (KPIs) these days, and with good reason. These numbers tell a story—but that’s where they can become very confusing and start us down a road that can take us away from our goals. Before we get any farther into this conversation, […]

December 17, 2020

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ROMANS REPORT – Canada’s top 10 collision networks make up 76.1 percent of industry revenue

BY ALLISON ROGERS The Romans Group has released its annual whitepaper, A 2019 Profile of the Evolving U.S and Canada Collision Repair Marketplace, which looks at current, historical and future trends for both the U.S. and Canadian collision repair industries. “For the U.S. and Canada, the North American auto physical damage ecosystem and the entire […]

December 17, 2020

Cyberhackers on the loose – Top ways to keep your business safe from cyberhacks

BY JULIA LLOYD WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF CYBER ATTACKS? MALWARE A general term for any software with intent to damage a computer and/or computer system. This can include, viruses, spyware, trojan horses and other malicious forms of cyber attacks. This is commonly contracted through email links from unknown sources—sometimes even pop-up ads have […]

December 17, 2020

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Perceive and achieve – Solve your capacity-planning conundrum with ProgiPlanning

BY JULIA LLOYD AND ALLISON ROGERS Running a well-oiled collision centre can be challenging—but Progi has a solution. Last week, Charles Aubry, account manager at Progi took the CCIF virtual stage to discuss how the ProgiPlanning software, combined with a capacity planning mindset, can help collision repair facilities establish a capacity-planning ecosystem. ProgiPlanning is more […]

December 17, 2020

Shifting Gears – NAIT navigates hands-on learning in unprecedented times

BY JULIA LLOYD Amid the pandemic, many students have been forced to take education into their own hands, pursuing courses from home via the internet—but students of skilled trades don’t have the luxury of remote learning. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a massive shift in the realms of education as university and college students across […]

December 17, 2020

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Report cards issued – Repairers give insurers the grades

BY ALLISON ROGERS Traditionally, collision repairers and auto insurances have a delicate—even quarrelsome relationship. Add a global pandemic into the mix and things become a little more muddled. For the past two years, Collision Repair has asked the Canadian collision repair community to issue grades for the nation’s big players in auto insurance. The areas […]

December 17, 2020

SEMA Online – The first ever virtual SEMA show impressed the industry

Las Vegas, Nevada – This year, SEMA ditched the grand Vegas show floor of years past and took its industry-wide event fully virtual with SEMA360, showing that even in an unpredictable year like 2020, the auto industry will keep on motoring. This year’s event saw new innovations to the SEMA platform, as well as the […]

December 17, 2020

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Stars and Cars – GFS shows off new curing systems, holds virtual car show at 2020 summit

BY MAX REID Global Finishing Solutions (GFS) held it’s virtual 2020 Auto Refinishing Summit in late October, drawing attendees from across the auto refinishing industry for a week of insider news and contests. From October 26th through the 31st, GFS treated attendees to a wide array of event programming, from a virtual car show to […]

December 17, 2020

Holding their own – Haida Gwaii calls on ICBC to solve its collision repair conundrum

BY MAX REID DIY auto repairs in rural Canadian communities are nothing shocking—people know the government’s arms can only reach so far—but for residents on Haida Gwaii, adequate auto repair services might as well be an ocean away. “It looks a little wild west here at times,” remarked Lisa Pineault, counsellor in the village of […]

December 17, 2020

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