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DAILY NEWS
Feb 6, 2008 1:44 PM
Want to make your shop lean? Now you can buy a kit
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In response to significant demand for Ohio-based DCR Systems' innovative collision repair "lean" operating model, DCR Systems has launched a new company, DCR Intellectual Property Company. This company will own the intellectual property for the lean collision repair production system and will focus on licensing the system to collision repair industry participants. The licensing includes facility design, process tools, specialized equipment, training curriculum and compensation systems. DCR Systems will continue to develop and operate its dealership collision repair outsourcing program.
"Over the past three years, as DCR Systems has experienced proof-of-concept of our collision repair model based on 'lean manufacturing' principles, we have had hundreds of inquiries from all facets of the industry, asking for access to what we do and what we continue to develop," says DCR Intellectual Property Company president and CEO, Michael Giarrizzo, Jr. "In the past, we only utilized the system in collision repair centers that we operated. With the recent formation of DCR IP Company, we are responding to the industry's need."
The DCR Intellectual Property Company operating system is based on "lean manufacturing' principles, which eliminates many of the inefficiencies associated with auto body repair. "The traditional way of repairing a car involved one technician working on many vehicles," says Giarrizzo Jr. "Part of the paradigm shift in the DCR IP system involves technicians becoming task-specific experts trained to use the latest repair technology when and where it's required. The physical model is built around a standardized 12,000-square-foot facility that has the capacity to facilitate the repair of more than 200 vehicles per month."
DCR Systems was formed in 2004 and offers dealer-based turnkey collision repair outsourcing programs based on "lean manufacturing" principles.
