Make Your Collision Center Faster, Better, and More Profitable!
How many vehicles should you have on-site to maximize your repair cycle time and production through-put?
CR Auto Scheduler® – Production is the only body shop scheduling software that uses AI algorithms to allow your entire staff to embrace the Lean Six Sigma philosophy by automatically recommending three drop off dates which meet the parameters of a balanced schedule.
CR Auto Scheduler® – Production – Algorithm Powered Auto Body Shop Scheduling Software
Our CR Auto Scheduler® – Production and CR Auto Scheduler® – Production ME programs offer multiple features to improve timing and organize work-flow in your repair facility. Our line of programs has a proven track record of reducing cycle time and balancing your workload throughout the collision repair process. The CR Auto Scheduler® – Production takes your input and organizes an efficient, cost-effective process that is easy to see, manage, and sustain. The program considers your facility, equipment, staffing, and capacity to turn work over quickly and resourcefully without adding extra stress to you and your staff!
Top 10 reasons to use CR Auto Scheduler® – Production in your facility:
- Reduce cycle time
- Lower your costs to repair vehicles
- Yield an expected return of over 40 times the investment
- Boost your repair facility capacity
- Load level by a mix of work and between locations
- Balance your workflow
- Enable your estimators to close more customers
- Increase customer recommendations of your facility
- Leverage excellent training and responsive technical support
- Benefit from a proven track record with many of North America’s top auto body shops utilizing our technology
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Work-In-Process Optimizer
How many vehicles should you have on-site to maximize your cycle time and production through-put?
CR Auto Scheduler® – Production can be set to monitor your target work-in-process (WIP) and increase or decrease the flow of vehicles scheduled to start in your facility to maximize your cycle time. This is done by minimizing the number of vehicles waiting to be repaired and maximizing the number of vehicles repaired each day, as well as making sure there are enough vehicles to repair on-site. You can set the WIP target and let it go to work for you!
Getting the correct mix of work each day is key to maximizing the number of vehicles repaired each day. CR Auto Scheduler® – Production’s algorithms work to even the flow of vehicles into your facility. CR Auto Scheduler® – Production works like a drum beat to bring in the same number of hours and vehicles each day while matching the mix of small, medium, large, and heavy hits your auto body shop sees each week. CR Auto Scheduler® – Production is the only scheduling tool that learns as you use it to get better at scheduling the right damage/repair mix and hours each day.
CR Auto Scheduler® – Production is the only scheduling software which recommends drop off dates. Lean Six Sigma requires reducing variability in the repair process. CR Auto Scheduler® – Production is the only collision repair scheduling product that uses AI algorithms to allow your entire staff to embrace the Lean Six Sigma philosophy by recommending three drop off dates which meet the parameters of a balanced schedule.
CR Auto Scheduler® – Production is easy to use by allowing users to enjoy the industry CIECA standards to eliminate the double keying of data. Keeping the schedule up-to-date is easily done through one or two mouse clicks or automatically using data from some management systems
Benefits of Using Body Shop Scheduling Software
The following are the top 10 reasons to use auto scheduling software at your collision repair facility:
1. Cycle Time is Shortened
Efficient scheduling prevents too many vehicles from being dropped off for repairs early in the week and sitting untouched for one, two, or more days. This helps to reduce the cycle time of the vehicles in your facility.
2. Vehicles Are Delivered on Time
As a result of shortened cycle time, more vehicles are delivered in a timely fashion to customers.
3. Production Employees Are Used Effectively
This efficient pattern of work averts slow periods in the refinish and detail departments early in the week, preventing employees from working overtime to catch up and allowing for more effective use of production employees.
4. The Collision Repair Facility’s Capacity is Increased
With improved cycle time, only vehicles that are being worked on are on-site, as well as the necessary parts to repair each vehicle. This prevents an excess of vehicles and parts at any given time, increasing the overall capacity of the facility.
5. The Quality of Repairs Improves
Auto scheduling software allows for a more even number of vehicles to be returned throughout the week instead of a higher number at the end of the week. This places less stress upon the ability of the collision center to refinish, reassemble, detail, and perform quality control on the vehicles. As a result, repairs are more thoroughly and expertly completed.
6. Customer Satisfaction Levels Increase
A customer’s satisfaction level is undoubtedly influenced by variables they can observe such as good color match, cleanliness of the vehicle, promises kept, and on time delivery. With body shop scheduling software, these items are completed with a higher level of consistency and customer satisfaction is increased as a byproduct.
7. Non-production Employees Are Used Effectively
Auto body shop software helps ensure paperwork and customer check-ins are kept up-to-date. This improvement in efficiency allows non-production employees to spend their time more productively.
8. Stress Levels Reduce
Auto scheduling software helps all employees maintain a more balanced workload, significantly reducing stress levels.
9. Rental Vehicle Expenses Decrease
Body shop scheduling software helps to shorten cycle times and ensure vehicles are delivered on-time, in turn decreasing rental vehicle expenses. We have even documented the number of vehicles carrying over the weekend.
10. Profits Increase
The improved utilization of the facility and the employees results in an increase in sales that can be produced, reduced damaged and overtime costs, and decreased costs associated with re-dos and customer recovery. Collectively, these factors increase the profits that can be achieved by a collision repair center.
Ready to reap the benefits of technology-driven body shop scheduling software? Schedule a personalized demo to get started!
Our CR Auto Scheduler® – Production software provides the most accurate and comprehensive scheduling capabilities available for use in collision repair centers.
CR Auto Scheduler® – Production allows you to get the “X” out of your business!
By eliminating the rush of work into your business early in the week and the rush of work out of your business at the end of the week, CR Auto Scheduler® – Production allows you to better utilize your existing capacity (building, equipment, and staffing). Vehicles are turned around more rapidly, quality is not sacrificed during ‘rush’ times, delivery dates are met, customer satisfaction levels improve, and costs are reduced!
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Choose a Solution
Our CR Auto Scheduler® – Production software provides the most accurate and comprehensive scheduling capabilities available for use in collision repair centers. We have software packages available for both single-location and multi-site collision repair centers.
Capabilities |  |  | ||
| Schedules utilizing your capacity without overwhelming your shop | ||||
| Balances vehicle inflow and outflow | ||||
| Balances the mix of work from small jobs through heavy hits | ||||
| Provides scheduling options for each estimate | ||||
| Manages the sales process on unclosed estimates | ||||
| Measures closing ratio by estimator | ||||
| Allows simultaneous users on networked workstations in a single facility | ||||
| Considers payment source when scheduling | ||||
| ‘Intelligence’ that learns and results in improved scheduling | ||||
| Measures cycle times and supplement size by facility, payment source and size of job | ||||
| Allows for load leveling across multiple stores | ||||
| Allows simultaneous users on networked workstations in multiple facilities | ||||
Support Programs
CRASWatchTM:
- Using EMS files generated by the major estimating systems in the industry, CORE populates CR Auto Scheduler® – Production with customer, vehicle, and estimate repair information and eliminates the need for this data to be entered manually.
- CORE is currently made available to users of CR Auto Scheduler® – Production at no additional charge.
Content Reviewed by David McCreight