ABRN supplement Sept. 2008 - Guide to Shop Design, Ohio
A supplement to Automotive Body Repair News Sept. 2008; IDEAL DESIGNS -
Affordable options are available to repairers looking to redesign their buildings into something special. BUILDING A BETTER BAY - Better bays mean better business and higher revenue. LOOKING LEAN - Whip your shop into better financial shape with lean processes. View the printable version under the full testimonial for full pdf article.
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As we have expanded our operation from our first shop to our fourth, Sherwin-Williams has always been part of our strategic growth. They have helped us design our shops to maximize productivity. They are the largest PBE equipment supplier. They have been great at giving good, sound recommendations on which equipment to use. The personnel at Sherwin-Williams have always taken hands on approach to our business. We have worked with other paint companies over time and none are capable of doing what Sherwin-Williams can. Others talk about it, but hope their distribution network can follow thru. They are the industries best kept secret. If you are truly interested in maximizing your company's profits then talk to Sherwin-Williams. It can be hard to be told the truths about your business, but it is necessary to have a "fresh" set of eyes looking at how you do things. We will be with Sherwin-Williams for a long, long time.
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Going through a process like this as a business owner is very stressful. As for the CRDS department and Sherwin-Williams as a whole, they have been very helpful and enlighten us in showing us how we can be more efficient and more productive and getting a better quality repair. There was a time when I first started this process, a few years back, I didn't expect to see myself where I am at now and where I am going in the future. And I can only tell you if it wasn't for Sherwin-Williams and the staff of the design team, I would not be going there.
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CRDS assisted us with shop flow, which is very very important. It's a moneymaker. We want to have a throughput of about 9 cars a day and that would not be possible without having the departments and the right doors in the right place, the parts department in the right place, the office in the right place. Sherwin-Williams has been phenomenal. The product has proven itself to be very very good, very high quality and efficient. The support of the Sherwin-Williams team is even better.
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Sherwin-Williams was very helpful in growing our business. We struggled quite a bit in trying to determine weather we could combine our paint department, body department in one building. We were just about ready to give up on the whole thing and just run it the way it had been for the last 10- 12 years, two separate buildings driving cars back and forth and I think if it wouldn't have been for them (CRDS) I don't think I would have been convinced that it could be housed under the size building that we had. So there was a lot of work put into that from the design department. We were actually able to put on a 30 ft addition which housed our two spraybooths and then allowed us to become much more efficient. Where the painters were working right next to the body men. Production increased and stress levels totally decreased.
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When I think beyond just paint, I think of all the added value services that we have had access to, and been made available to us - the training, the best demonstrated practices on the web, the internet scale, the additional training and support by the management consulting group and the layout and design by the Collision Repair Design Service group. The opportunites for full service to our business through our partnership with Sherwin-Williams has just been phenominal. The whole view of the relationship that True 2 Form and Sherwin-Williams has, is based on the principle of partnership. We take that very seriously and I am very pleased to learn from experience that Sherwin-Williams takes the concept of partnering very seriously as well.
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