Norcross, Ga.--AkzoNobel Vehicle Refinishes Americas has posted training schedules for business classes slated in third and forth quarters of 2009. The classes cover a wide array of topics pertinent to owners and managers in the collision repair industry.
“We assembled a very aggressive training calendar for 2009,” said Mike Sillay, services manager for AkzoNobel Vehicle Refinishes Americas. “Our total array of classes numbered almost 200 this year.
“We anticipated that with the current economic environment, businesses would look for every advantage. We have found that our expectations were correct. Shops have been turning out in record numbers” Sillay said.
The AkzoNobel training curriculum covers everything from traditional subjects such as Estimating and Paint Material Management to topics significant for today’s economy such as Rapid Repair and Performance Management.
One subject that has growing demand is the recently released courses on Process Centered Environments (PCE). These courses, unique to AkzoNobel, leverage the vast array of information that has been written on the theories of lean processes.
That information has been refined and packaged into programs specifically targeted for the collision repair industry.
