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A Simple Guide to Organizing Your Tool Cabinet In auto repair and maintenance, the tools of the trade cost a pretty penny. It’s easy to drop $20,000 on all the wrenches, ratchets, sockets, scanners, power tools, and specialty kits you need to work on today’s cars. However, all those tools are worthless if you can’t find the ones you need in your cluttered tool cabinet. Sure, you can hope the delivery truck will arrive at the exact moment you need a 1/4" newton meter adjustable click-type …

Time is money in your dealership’s service and parts departments. If you bill two hours to change a water pump, your techs should be spending those two hours — or less — under the hood, not in the parts department. Here are 7 best practices to make sure your parts department is firing on all cylinders. 1. Organize your inventory based on category of part and then frequency of use. Make sure sections are clearly labeled. These days, everybody seems to be counting their steps with a fitness …

As any Automotive Parts Manager or Dealership can tell you, maintaining an organized and effective Parts Department can be an ongoing battle. Problem When a Midwest based Automotive Dealership contacted Industrial Shelving Systems to help with the setup of their new addition, we were thrilled to help them build a solid foundation for their organizational needs from the ground up. With a large Parts Department Inventory, this Dealer needed twice the amount of storage space available w …