‘Auditing’ I-CAR Production Management 101: Focus on ‘learning culture’
— October 9, 2015I took I-CAR up on its offer to “audit” the introductory course of its new Production Management
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Business Practices
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Seam sealer on a Porsche, refinish edge/inside on F-350, and more: 5 IP tips from DEG
— October 9, 2015The Database Enhancement Gateway, which allows repairers to make inquiries and suggestions of the Big
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Consultant urges fewer collision total-loss estimates, more reman parts to improve ‘triple bottom line’
— October 9, 2015Insurers should cut back on writing total-loss estimates, a consultant urged Thursday on a Guild21 webinar,
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PPG: Environmental, productivity gains to spur greater waterborne paint adoption
— October 8, 2015Waterborne basecoat adoption will continue to grow, a PPG manager predicted, and the company wants to
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GM: MyPriceLink to start flowing dynamic list prices through IPs Dec. 1
— October 8, 2015CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article contained an erroneous description of the MyPriceLink
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Volvo to accept liability for self-driving car crashes, unveils steering interface for human driver
— October 7, 2015One of the burning questions regarding self-driving cars isn’t technological but legal: Who gets
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Updated severity spreadsheet lets collision repairers find true shop-specific average, justify KPI deviation
— October 7, 2015When an insurer calls your collision repair shop out for being over a particular estimate severity level,
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Supreme Court declines aftermarket petition to reconsider Fifth Circuit GM ‘conquest’ pricing ruling
— October 6, 2015Following the defeat in A&E v. 21st Century, here’s some good legal news for auto body shops
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Is that ‘Opt-OE’ part truly OK’d by automaker? Find out how true alternative OEM programs work
— October 6, 2015True Opt-OE components can be a way for OEMs to compete with aftermarket pricing without straying too
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Expert: Hackers could turn dealership, collision repairer into ‘auto brothel’
— October 5, 2015A hacker could use an phony OBD-II port to upload sharable, executable code into a diagnostic tool and
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