herwin-Williams Automotive Finishes offers training sessions that provide collision repair industry professionals advanced knowledge in their field. It recently announced the latest courses and training sites for the fourth quarter (Oct. – Dec.), 2013.
Participants will learn through a combination of classroom, digital, and hands-on settings at various metropolitan Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes training centers. Training is available to all shop owners, managers, painters, and technicians, who can choose to advance their business-building, production-excellence and/or paint application techniques, as needed.
According to Rod Habel, Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes Director of Training Operations, many of the new classes directly relate to the Sherwin-Williams philosophy of helping its customers through ‘lean thinking’ – introducing concepts that support sustainable practices – which increases productivity while minimizing or often eliminating waste.
In particular, Habel noted that there will also be considerable curriculum emphasis on the company’s breakthrough AWX Performance Plus™ waterborne coatings technology as well as its ATX™ refinish system.
A key sampling of courses also offered during the fourth quarter includes:
- Color Adjustment and Blending
- Estimating Solutions for Profit
- Achieving Service Excellence
- Express Scratch Repair™ Service
- Painter Certification
Further details regarding the 2013 fourth quarter schedule for training centers, dates, specific course descriptions, and locations are listed below:
Training Center | Date | Training Course Description | No. of days |
Philadelphia | 10/2/13 | AWX Performance Plus Waterborne Application & Color Simplicity | 2 |
Burr Ridge | 10/7/13 | Color Adjustment & Blending | 3 |
Dallas | 10/8/13 | Painter Certification | 3 |
Atlanta | 10/14/13 | Jobber Level 1 | 2 |
Philadelphia | 10/14/13 | Color Adjustment & Blending | 3 |
Atlanta | 10/16/13 | Jobber Level 1 | 2 |
Philadelphia | 10/21/13 | AWX Performance Plus Waterborne Application & Color Simplicity |
2 |
Philadelphia | 10/23/13 | ATX Refinish System Painter Certification | 2 |
Chicago | 10/28/13 | Painter Certification | 3 |
Chicago | 10/29/13 | Estimating Solutions for Profit |
1 |
Atlanta | 10/30/13 | ATX Refinish System Painter Certification | 2 |
Chicago | 10/30/13 | Achieving Service Excellence | 1 |
Dallas | 11/11/13 | AWX Performance Plus Waterborne Application & Color Simplicity | 3 |
Dallas | 11/11/13 | Color Adjustment & Blending | 3 |
Reno | 11/12/13 | Color Adjustment & Blending | 3 |
Reno | 11/12/13 | Estimating Solutions for Profit | 1 |
Reno | 11/13/13 | Achieving Service Excellence | 1 |
Philadelphia | 11/14/13 | Express Scratch Repair Service | 1 |
Philadelphia | 11/15/13 |
Express Scratch Repair Service1 |
1 |
Reno | 11/18/13 | AWX Performance Plus Waterborne Painter Certification | 3 |
Dallas | 12/2/13 | AWX Performance Plus Waterborne Refinish System Painter Certification | 3 |
Chicago | 12/3/13 | Color Adjustment & Blending | 3 |
Atlanta | 12/3/13 | Estimating Solutions for Profit | 1 |
Reno | 12/3/13 | Fleet CFR | 3 |
Atlanta | 12/3/13 | Painter Certification | 3 |
Chicago | 12/3/13 | Painter Certification | 3 |
Atlanta | 12/4/13 | Achieving Service Excellence | 1 |
Atlanta | 12/4/13 | Improving Workshop Efficiency | 1 |
Philadelphia | 12/20/13 | Estimating Solutions for Profit | 1 |
For more information about Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes training visit its training section at http://www.sherwin-automotive.com/training-support/classroom-training/course-schedule/ or call 1-800-SWULTRA (1-800-798-5872).
The Sherwin-Williams Company, founded in 1866, is one of the world's leading companies in the manufacture, distribution and sale of coatings and related products to professional, industrial, commercial and retail customers. Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes, a division of The Sherwin-Williams Company, manufactures and distributes a complete line of advanced technology paint and coating systems for automotive and fleet refinishing industries.