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Blkstocks Optimized Systems

Shop efficiency review

Technician — your bay, your work, your equipment

We designed and installed the equipment in this shop. Now that you have been working in it a while, we want to know how it is actually treating you. We are asking about our decisions: what we picked, where we put it, and whether it fits the work that rolls into your bay.

Skip anything that is not part of your job. Be blunt — the complaints are worth more to us than the compliments, and none of this reflects on you.

1About you and your bay

Roughly what percent of your week is each?

(It is fine if it does not add to exactly 100.)

Quick lube / express%
General service & maintenance%
Major repair / diagnostic%
Tire & wheel%
Alignment / ADAS%
Collision / body%
Paint%
Prep%
Detail%
PDI / recon%

2How the systems work for you

Rate only what you use. Mark the rest N/A. Use the notes box under each system to tell us what the number does not.

1Costs me time every day
2Costs me time often
3Functional
4Good
5Would not change it
N/ANot part of my work
Lifts

Lift type & capacity fit the work that comes to my bay

Getting the vehicle up — arms, adapters, approach, clearance

Working room around the vehicle once it is in the air

Controls, raise/lower speed, reliability

Alignment & wheel service

Location of the rack / changer / balancer relative to my work

Working space around the equipment

Wait time to get on shared equipment

Compressed air

Air pressure & volume at my bay during normal work

Drop location, reel reach, coupler height

Vehicle exhaust

Hose reach and hooking up to the vehicle

Capture — does it actually pull the fumes out

Bulk & used fluid

Reel placement and hose reach at my bay

Dispense speed and meter accuracy

Used fluid — draining and disposal without hauling it across the shop

Workstations

Bench and work surface for the job I actually do

Tool and parts storage within reach

Location of the station relative to my bay

Parts shelving

Distance from my bay to the parts I need most

Finding and staging parts for my job

Detail

Layout and flow of the detail area

Equipment reach — water, air, vacuum, power

Paint equipment

Booth & prep station — flow from prep to paint

Mix room location and layout

Air supply and breathing air

Collision equipment

Frame & measuring equipment — location and working space

Welders — placement, reach, setup time

Moving a vehicle through the repair process

3In your own words

These tell us more than the numbers do. Take your time on them.

4Other / notes

Anything we did not ask about — a system, an area, an idea, a complaint. Use as much of this space as you want.

Thank you. Blkstocks Optimized Systems · nick@blkstocks.com