SHERWIN-WILLIAMS TO HOST A-PLUS™ UNIVERSITY 'IMPROVING WORKSHOP EFFICIENCY' AT CLEVELAND HEADQUARTERS

February 2012

Warrensville Heights, Ohio – Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes will be hosting its next A-Plus™ EcoLean™ Suite of Training classes with 'Improving Workshop Efficiencies' February 23, 2012 at its Greater Cleveland-area headquarters, 4440 Warrensville Center Road, Warrensville Heights, Ohio.

The exclusive EcoLean™ Suite of Training workshops from Sherwin-Williams are designed to educate attendees about maximizing profitability by improving productivity and eliminating waste throughout their facilities. These exclusive programs are offered to collision center owners and dealer managers throughout the United States and Canada.

"We aim to give our EcoLean™ Suite of Training workshop attendees an extensive and comprehensive look at how they can build a lean culture in their shop from the ground up," says Troy Neuerburg, manager of Marketing Business Services at Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes. "This curriculum was developed specifically with collision shop operators in mind. Through it they will learn practical processes and useful tips on lean production's application in collision repair and methods to make their collision shops more efficient, productive and subsequently, more profitable."

Today more and more collision repair professionals ASK Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes to provide product and service solutions that benefit its thousands of collision shop customers. Programs like its EcoLean™ Suite of Training workshops continue to demonstrate that environmentally sound business decisions can go hand-in-hand with the reduction of excessive work procedures and environmental waste.

"Attendees will leave the Cleveland event with the tangible tools they need to immediately increase the quality and production output of their businesses," Neuerburg adds.

In particular, the 'Improving Workshop Efficiencies' curriculum includes: 

• The principles of reducing environmental waste 
• The history of lean production, and its practical application in collision repair
• Methods of making the collision facility more efficient and consistent

To register online for the upcoming Cleveland area A-Plus™ University EcoLean™ 'Improving Workshop Efficiencies' program, go to www.sherwin-automotive.com/en/Events.aspx. For more information on the A-Plus™ Network, call (800) 386-3881.