Our A-Team traveled out to St. Albans, Vermont to perform a Chevrolet Auto Dealer Tool Organization.
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Details of Chevrolet Dealer Tool Organization Systems
Here is an auto dealer tool organization systems project completed for a Chevrolet dealer at St. Albans, Vermont by Tool Org’s own A-Team, Woody and Dawn.
We’re just wrapping up here at Handy Chevrolet at St. Albans, Vermont. This was seventeen panel job with four shelves and they put it up in this mezzanine and it’s upstairs.
We had to build a little bit of a wall here, and uh… this shows you what it came out like. There is a before video on this particular dealer if you care to see what it looked like before: https://youtu.be/QpDt5PaZmeE and what it looks like now.
You can see, we mounted 2×6’s back there. Then we put, vertically, mounted to the braces and then we put horizontal 2×6’s just to put the panels on. This shows you their seventeen panels.
This shows you what they (panels) look like. This shows you how they move. I was at a place last night and they were questioning how they move. If you need to get into a tool, you just move the panel and it will move them all, and you can get in and get your tool.
You can see we mounted them 2×6’s back there. This system is setup in numerical sequence. You don’t look at the alpha, you just look at the number. And it’s lowest to highest. So, when a technician comes up here to find a tool, all he’s got to know is his number. Works like a big book. You just find that number, take the tool, and we leave in its place a dog tag. When you come to take this tool, you hang your dog tag up there. That’s how it works.
This shows you their four shelves that are labeled one through four. It says what kits are on there. We put this initially on an Excel spreadsheet for GM and then it gets transfered and downloaded to the GM database. This shows you the other way. Kits are all labeled
These blue totes down here have recommended tools. The tools hanging on their boards are essential tools. Other than if it’s a tool we know is in use, we’ll automatically pull it out and put it up on their tool panel. But, they are broke down by numbers. This shows you what they look like…inside.
The process is all about being efficient in finding the tool you need and being able to retrieve that quickly, and go do the job and put it back where it belongs to increase their efficiency.
This shows you some other shelves. We re-purposed three of their shelves and put some stuff on it that is hardly ever used. There’s one down on the end we used for their engine stand.
Ok… with that, we worked for Scott and Dan Handy here was the owner, and also, he was a hands on guy. He’d been up here quite a bit. He likes his new tools system, and they have a little better than a panel in a half for growth. Plus, they have this back wall where they could add on some more panels if necessary.
They still have room to add on two more panels if they run out of room, but they should be good to go for awhile.
So, with that, we’re going to thank Tool Org. for the job. We’re going to thank God for his help as always.
Again, this is another job finished and completed by Tool Organization Services. This shows you who they are. This shows you the phone number. And, if you have a tool room that’s a mess, this is who you contact. And, even if you don’t use this system we’ll advise you what’s the best thing to do.
So, with that, I’m going to do another turn-around and I’m going to shut down.
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