STRONGSVILLE, Ohio — PPG’s MVP Business Solutions team is offering three opportunities this fall for collision center owners and managers to attend its MVP Green Belt Training program. The comprehensive four-day course teaches the practical application of Lean Six Sigma tailored for collision repair, and focuses on helping shop owners and managers design and implement processes that will result in the simultaneous improvement of quality, speed and cost of operations.
The 2008 fall schedule for MVP Green Belt Training is Oct. 6-9 in Albuquerque, N.M.; Nov. 17-20 in Syracuse, N.Y.; and Dec. 8-12 in Duarte, Calif.
“The challenges for owners and managers of collision repair businesses have never been greater,” says Jim Berkey, director of MVP Business Solutions for PPG Automotive Refinish. “Collision repair businesses are faced with shrinking repair opportunities, shrinking profits, fewer capable people and performance pressures from insurers and consumers. On top of this, there is an over-supply of collision centers in the market.”
The training teaches owners and managers how to eliminate waste, improve cycle time and efficiencies, while reducing operating costs, he said.
According to Rich Altieri, senior manager, MVP Business Solutions, the training curriculum is based on more than four years of research and development led by a team of Master Black Belt Lean Six Sigma experts and MVP collision center consultants.
“We hold these training programs at real-world collision centers that are well along their way on the Lean Six Sigma journey,” says Altieri. “That way, other owners and managers can more effectively relate what they learned in the classroom to how it applies on the shop floor.”
Altieri says the training and the workgroup programs have graduated more than 450 owners and managers, many of whom are now on the continuous improvement path provided by the MVP ParaKaizen Workgroups. The ParaKaizen Workgroup program provides continuous education and execution support based on the principles of Lean Six Sigma and a shop floor oriented, “learn-do” approach.
For more information, or to register for an upcoming session, call the MVP hotline at 440-572-6199 or e-mail [email protected].
