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Using Tool Programs to Attract and Retain Mechanics In the competitive automotive maintenance and repair world, new car dealerships face a continuous challenge in recruiting and retaining skilled technicians. The automotive industry has seen a worrying trend: for every new technician entering the workforce, three are leaving. This shortage puts pressure on dealerships to find and keep qualified technicians. One emerging and highly effective strategy is implementing tool programs, now ranked among the top 10 benefits sought by technicians when considering a new position. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gSDHAimr

Using Tool Programs to Attract and Retain Mechanics In the competitive automotive maintenance and repair world, new car dealerships face a continuous challenge in recruiting and retaining skilled technicians. The automotive industry has seen a worrying trend: for every new technician entering the workforce, three are leaving. This shortage puts pressure on dealerships to find and keep qualified technicians. One emerging and highly effective strategy is implementing tool programs, now ranked among the top 10 benefits sought by technicians when considering a new position. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gSDHAimr

Technicians will always need technical skills. But there's a growing need for soft skills. Here's what a panel of experts say those skills need to be.

In this episode, Chris Lawson of Technician Find examines the top reasons why technicians are leaving their jobs and what shop owners can do about it.

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Using Tool Programs to Attract and Retain Mechanics In the competitive automotive maintenance and repair world, new car dealerships face a continuous challenge in recruiting and retaining skilled technicians. The automotive industry has seen a worrying trend: for every new technician entering the workforce, three are leaving. This shortage puts pressure on dealerships to find and keep qualified technicians. One emerging and highly effective strategy is implementing tool programs, now ranked among the top 10 benefits sought by technicians when considering a new position. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gSDHAimr

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A serious question: As a vehicle technician, did you improve your skills this week? Technicians in our training programmes visit TTHQ regularly for new training courses. So, whilst you were busy grinding away at the workplace, the Master Technician Group visited TTHQ to learn all about in-vehicle networking and the Diagnostic Technician Group visited to learn all about Vehicle Safety systems. You've GOT to take time out to stay sharp. All of the top garages in the UK partner with TTHQ for their training needs. They know that a well-trained workforce is highly motivated, performs well in their job, and is happy in their work. As a technician, if you feel your skills development is lacking, get in touch and see how to join one of our training programs. Master Technician Program: https://lnkd.in/eHKcm6R8 Diagnostic Technician Program: https://lnkd.in/e3Bu5r9C The Master Techs got to grips with network technology, including Flexray, Ethernet and SENT. Learning how it works and how to test it in various diagnostic scenarios. The group ran through fault vehicle cases to put into practice how to diagnose network faults in the wild. Bring on the network faults. The Diagnostic Technician group got to grips with safety systems, including ABS, ESP and SRS systems. Knowing what the technology is and how to test it speeds up the diagnostic time taken and improves the first-time fix rate. Do you know a directional wheel speed sensor from an inductive one? These guys do. The session culminated in the SRS systems, with the group learning about deployment. Controlled deployment of airbags is a requirement for their disposal. We also did some hands-on diag on a live diag job; the poorly Transit. We are the premier technical training provider in the UK - by design. No one can match our skills, knowledge, resources or delivery model. #bethebest

A serious question: As a vehicle technician, did you improve your skills this week? Technicians in our training programmes visit TTHQ regularly for new training courses. So, whilst you were busy grinding away at the workplace, the Master Technician Group visited TTHQ to learn all about in-vehicle networking and the Diagnostic Technician Group visited to learn all about Vehicle Safety systems. You've GOT to take time out to stay sharp. All of the top garages in the UK partner with TTHQ for their training needs. They know that a well-trained workforce is highly motivated, performs well in their job, and is happy in their work. As a technician, if you feel your skills development is lacking, get in touch and see how to join one of our training programs. Master Technician Program: https://lnkd.in/eHKcm6R8 Diagnostic Technician Program: https://lnkd.in/e3Bu5r9C The Master Techs got to grips with network technology, including Flexray, Ethernet and SENT. Learning how it works and how to test it in various diagnostic scenarios. The group ran through fault vehicle cases to put into practice how to diagnose network faults in the wild. Bring on the network faults. The Diagnostic Technician group got to grips with safety systems, including ABS, ESP and SRS systems. Knowing what the technology is and how to test it speeds up the diagnostic time taken and improves the first-time fix rate. Do you know a directional wheel speed sensor from an inductive one? These guys do. The session culminated in the SRS systems, with the group learning about deployment. Controlled deployment of airbags is a requirement for their disposal. We also did some hands-on diag on a live diag job; the poorly Transit. We are the premier technical training provider in the UK - by design. No one can match our skills, knowledge, resources or delivery model. #bethebest

Hughes Aircraft Glory Days Part 8 of 10 A highly skilled technician would turn the X or Y handle to position the laser over the hybrid and then fire the laser with a foot pedal to trim the resistor while watching the DVM until the voltage value was within pre-burn in tolerance. He / she would then set up for the next resistor trim on the hybrid and repeat the process until all resistors had been trimmed to tolerance. While rare, it was possible during this labor-intensive manual process for the technician to over trim a resistor rendering the entire Hybrid worthless. After every resistor was trimmed on each hybrid, the hybrid would go through a pre-burn in test procedure on the Data General Test System. It became apparent to us that our department could automate the process of resistor trim, pre and post-burn in test from three procedures into one. This would automate much of the manual process, dramatically improve laser trim quality, drastically reduce trim and test times, and allow us to employ less skilled technicians to run the system. I was responsible for this project, engineered the hardware, and wrote a program that automatically aligned the hybrid within the trim station (Call 11), set the voltage, trimmed each and every resistor sequentially within tolerance (Call 12). At the end of trimming, a pre-burn in test would be performed. When the test passed, the computer would print out that the test passed with any vital data, the technician would initial the pass slip and include in the Hybrid’s lot traveler, then send to burn-in. Schematic of Hybrid Laser Trim Trolley / Sled