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Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes offers training sessions that provide collision repair industry professionals advanced knowledge in their field. It recently announced the latest courses and training sites for the first quarter, 2014, that will be available from Jan. 1 through March 30, 2014.
Participants will learn through a combination of classroom, digital, and hands-on settings at various metropolitan Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes training centers. Training is available to all shop owners, managers, painters, and technicians, who can choose to advance their business-building, production-excellence and/or paint application techniques, as needed.
The following hands-on, paint and processes application-based courses will be offered during the first quarter:
- AWX Performance Plus™ Waterborne Refinish System Painter Certification
- Color Adjustment and Blending
- Painter Certification
Additional shop management and business-building courses will also be offered:
- Improving Performance with KPIs
- Achieving Service Excellence
- Improving Workshop Efficiency
- Estimating Solutions for Profit
“All of our courses this year reflect the Sherwin-Williams philosophy of lean operations,” says Rod Habel, Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes director of training operations. “We’re always seeking to introduce concepts that support sustainable practices, increase productivity and minimize or even eliminate waste — all factors that are necessary to the success of a collision center.”
The upcoming curriculum has a strong emphasis on the company’s breakthrough AWX Performance Plus waterborne coatings technology, while other classes will focus on painting excellence with its ULTRA 7000®, Dimensions®, Genesis® and ATX™ refinish systems. There will also be three separate sessions dedicated specifically to Commercial Fleet Refinishing.
Further details regarding the 2014 first quarter schedule for training centers, dates, specific course descriptions and locations, are listed below:
Training Center | Date | Training Course Description | Number Of Days
- Atlanta 02/03/14 Painter Certification 3
- Atlanta 02/10/14 Color Adjustment & Blending 3
- Atlanta 03/03/14 Fleet CFR 3
- Atlanta 03/17/14 Estimating Solutions for Profit 1
- Atlanta 03/18/14 Improving Workshop Efficiency 1
- Atlanta 03/18/14 Achieving Service Excellence 1
- Chicago 02/03/14 ATX™ Refinish System Painter Certification 2
- Chicago 02/03/14 Fleet CFR 3
- Chicago 02/06/14 Improving Performance with KPIs 1
- Chicago 02/10/14 AWX Performance Plus™ Waterborne Painter Certification 3
- Chicago 02/17/14 Painter Certification 3
- Chicago 03/17/14 Jobber Level 1 3
- Dallas 01/13/14 Painter Certification 3
- Dallas 02/17/14 AWX Performance Plus™ Waterborne Painter Certification 3
- Dallas 03/04/14 Estimating Solutions for Profit 1
- Dallas 03/05/14 Improving Performance with KPIs 1
- Dallas 03/10/14 Painter Certification 3
- Dallas 03/17/14 Color Adjustment and Blending 3
- Dallas 03/17/14 Fleet CFR 3
- Philadelphia 01/06/14 Painter Certification 3
- Philadelphia 01/09/14 AWX Performance Plus™ Application & Color Simplicity 2
- Philadelphia 01/13/14 Color Adjustment & Blending 3
- Philadelphia 01/16/14 ATX™ Refinish System Painter Certification 2
- Philadelphia 02/24/14 AWX Performance Plus™ Application & Color Simplicity 2
- Philadelphia 03/03/14 AWX Performance Plus™ Waterborne Painter Certification 3
- Philadelphia 03/06/14 Estimating Solutions for Profit 1
- Reno 03/03/14 AWX Performance Plus™ Waterborne Painter Certification 3
- Reno 03/10/14 Color Adjustment and Blending 3
- Reno 03/24/14 Painter Certification 3
For more information, visit the training section at http://www.sherwin-automotive.com/Training/TrainingCourseSchedule.aspx or call 1-800-SWULTRA (1-800-798-5872).
