LWS: Service Leveraging Assets (ENG)

LWS: Service Leveraging Assets (ENG)

The service department is known to provide repairs, rebuilds, and maintenance services. We manage the labor function to have the highest possible labor efficiency and quality. High performance in a Service Department must maximize efficiency, maximize quality, and...
LWS: Service Leadership (ENG)

LWS: Service Leadership (ENG)

The management and supervision in business is in many cases misunderstood. You manage process but you have to lead people. Often, we get consumed by our need to improve our processes. Since the 1980’s with the “Japanese” continuous improvement movement we have been...
LWS: Service Labor Efficiency (ENG)

LWS: Service Labor Efficiency (ENG)

Labor efficiency and labor quality are the two most important performance measures for supervision of a service department. The way in which you measure labor efficiency leads you to be able to manage labor efficiency.  Detailed definitions and calculations, as well...
LWS: Service Inspections (ENG)

LWS: Service Inspections (ENG)

Customers, for the dealership service department, have grown used to performing service maintenance and minor repairs either themselves, or with the help of independent mechanics. This has led them to the conclusion that repairs are easily done and that they can...
LWS: Service Flat Rate Standard Times (ENG)

LWS: Service Flat Rate Standard Times (ENG)

Customers want to know how much the repair work will cost before they approve the job you will perform. We have to provide this important information. In order to do this, we must manage our repairs with job codes. We must determine standard jobs, and then track them...
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