The DL on DTCs: Dave Luehr webinar features ADAS advice from asTech and Collision Advice experts
Toronto, Ontario — Collision industry icon Dave Luehr was back on Tuesday morning with another edition of his Elite Body Shop Academy webinar series, featuring Mike Anderson from Collision Advice and Jake Rodenroth from asTech. Among the top priorities for this latest presentation from Luehr was to dispel some of the most common myths surrounding […]
Wednesday Wisdom: Cris Hollingsworth, President of Repairify (asTech)
Toronto, Ontario — Whether it be as rudimentary as a backup camera or tire pressure gauges, or as complicated as a fully self-driving platform, ADAS components can be found in nearly every vehicle on the road today, and they aren’t getting any less complicated. Companies like asTech help provide shops with the tools and documentation […]
Dynamic Duo: Dave Luehr’s Elite Bodyshop to host webinar with Mike Anderson and Jake Rodenroth
Toronto, Ontario — Dave Luehr’s Elite Bodyshop will be hosting its Elite Webinar featuring Mike Anderson of CollisionAdvice and Jake Rodenroth from asTech on April 27th at 10 AM CDT (11 a.m. ET). The session, entitled ‘It’s Not Just About DTCs!’, will include: WHY you can’t just rely on DTCs when pre-scanning the vehicles, Insights […]
ADAS Acquisitions: asTech acquires Red EU and Red Autocentres
New York, New York – asTech, a portfolio company under Kinderhook Industries announced the acquisition of Red Limited and Red Autocentres yesterday. Red Limited is a distributor of aftermarket electronic devices designed to run diagnostic tests and calibration services on advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). Red Autocentres provides automotive diagnostics, calibration and programming services for […]
Calibration Connection: asTech acquires adasThink
Toronto, Ontario — asTech has acquired adasThink, the companies announced Wednesday. The acquisition was a “natural fit,” for the Canadian startup, said adasThink co-founder Nick Dominato. “There are some amazing synergies that adasThink can have with asTech,” Dominato told Collision Repair. “asTech is a leader when it comes to OEM diagnostics and calibrations, and that […]
Delving into Digital: 3M Announces ‘strategic investment’ in asTech
St. Paul, Minnesota — 3M has invested in asTech, citing a “continued commitment to advanced the digitization” of the aftermarket supplies giant, the companies announced Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “The 3M Ventures strategic investment in Repairify [asTech’s parent company] enables us to accelerate our solutions and offerings across the entire automotive […]
asTech Empire: asTech products certified for use in GM collision network
Plano, Texas – Industry-leading diagnostics service provider, asTech, is excited to announce that it’s products have been certified for use within GM’s newly established collision repair network. asTech is the latest company to partner with the automaker in its development of a first-party, nationwide collision repair network. With this latest announcement from asTech, coming in […]
Repairing Beyond Borders
By CRM staff Toronto, Ontario — April 4, 2019 — As the senior manager of training and development at the remote diagnostic repair giant asTech, Chris Menchaca is responsible for overseeing the training of asTech’s small army of remote service technicians. It is no easy task. For one thing: just a few years ago, remote […]
Guild 21 Conference: Planning for Scanning
By Gideon Scanlon Newport Beach, California — March 8, 2017 — On Thursday, leaders of the collision repair industry joined in on a conference call to hear the second half of a presentation given two months ago. With listeners from across North America, the most recent Guild 21 call focused on explaining why […]
asTech and Nexsyis Collision announce joint software integration
By CRM Staff Phoenix, Arizona — October 20, 2017 — Repairify, the company that makes the asTech scanning solution, and Nexsyis, a repair management and accounting platform, have announced the release of an application integration providing secure two-way, real-time communication between the two platforms. The integration between the platforms will “dramatically streamline” the entire vehicle diagnostic […]
