Australia's Automotive Manufacturing Industry (Current) - Australian Productivity Commission. Future of Australian auto industry rests with Toyota. Toyota Australia immediately put its manufacturing under review after Holden announced its 60-year reign in Australia will end in 2017.
Ben Potter If Toyota Australia wants to cut back the 21-day Christmas shutdown under its enterprise agreement to meet customer demand, it must first hold a vote of its manufacturing workers. If a bare majority agrees, it can go right ahead. If it doesn’t, the company needs to canvas workers on the two shifts for volunteers. If it doesn’t get enough volunteers, it can bring in temps and direct people to work over Christmas. To Dave Smith, the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union official who represents Toyota workers, that’s a fair and straightforward process, in line with consultative practices in the local business. Toyota Australia’s president, Max Yasuda, does have head office breathing down his neck.
Age of personal responsibility starts now. Submissions/2011/FINAL AAA submission - Right to Repair.pdf. No crash in sight for smash repairs industry. Microsoft PowerPoint - 04. Panelcorp Chris Spence.ppsx - 04. Panelcorp Chris Spence.pdf. The Crash Repair Blog. During our travels, we get to see a lot of collision repairers in a lot of towns operating in a lot of different market segments.
We see the small metro repairer trying to repair anything that heads in the driveway. We see the large “factory shops” that only repair vehicles that suiting their business model. We see the country repairer repairing everything from trucks and tractors to busses and Barinas. The variety of repairers in Australia is as varied and diverse as the vehicle fleet we are required to repair. What we also see is a lot of repairers working blind. In our travels we have found smart businesses in the most unlikely of locations. So, what is a “dumb” business? Dumb: a business that has no way to communicate with its owners, managers or operators. Smart Business: a business that has mechanisms in place to collect data. Change is afoot everywhere we look in this industry. Why? Because positive internal change is usually based on information. Is your business dumb or smart?
Suncorp plan: less smash, more cash. Sitting back from a busy road, a suburban smash repair workshop is poised to turn the nation's car insurance industry on its head.
One of the nation's biggest car insurers has been trialling the use of new technology aimed at slashing times to repair crashed and scratched cars. However, the development has the potential to put Suncorp Metway and the $3.5 billion smash repair industry on a collision course. Senior Suncorp executives will meet NSW and Victorian motor trades associations this week to discuss its plans to extract cost savings across its car insurance business. NSW Parliamentary inquiry into the motor vehicle repair industry (Insurance Council of Australia) Code of conduct looms for automotive repairs industry. Updated Tue 11 Jun 2013, 4:19pm AEST The Australian Automobile Association says a proposed code of conduct for the automotive industry would be "weak" and does not go far enough for consumers.
The Commonwealth Consumer Affairs Advisory Council has conducted an inquiry into the automotive repair market. It found independent repairers have been frustrated by a lack of technical information available to them, forcing motorists to take their cars to dealerships for servicing. The Federal Government today agreed to three recommendations from the inquiry, including setting up a voluntary code of conduct that will be negotiated by the industry. It would mean independent repairers would have better access to repair information, and lead to more choice for consumers.
Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury says consumers should have the right to choose where they take their cars for service and repair. The sharing of repair information in the automotive industry. On 20 December 2012, CCAAC’s final report on Sharing of repair information in the automotive industry was released.
The competitiveness of the automotive repair industry is of significant importance to Australian consumers. Motor vehicle ownership in Australia is at more than one vehicle for every two people, and vehicle servicing and repair is a key aspect of vehicle ownership. Ernment response to repair information review. 073_AAAA.pdf. AAAA CCAAC Repair Information Submission Final.pdf. Deloitte report on Australian smash repair industry. NRMA recently commissioned a report into the smash repair industry from Deloitte Access Economics.
Paint and Panel takes a look at some of the report’s difficult but realistic conclusions. Late last year, NRMA commissioned Deloitte Access Economics to inquire into the Australian smash repair industry. The Smash Repair Industry report makes some sobering findings, but few of them are unexpected. NRMA’s head of supply chain, Roy Briggs, says the report has in the main confirmed what we already know is happening in the industry, “My background is in finance, so I came to this job with no industry baggage or vested interest,” Briggs says. Report - Smash repair final report 241011.pdf. Motor vehicle sales & repairs - an industry guide to the Australian Consumer Law. Australian Automotive Aftermarket Association. 22 January 2014 - Small Business Minister offers support for industry-led code Federal Minister for Small Business, the Hon Bruce Billson MP, has confirmed the need for protection of car owners’ rights to choose their preferred repairer through an industry-led code of practice to facilitate the sharing of vital vehicle repair and service data.
In a productive meeting on 16 January between Minister Billson and the Australian Automotive Aftermarket Association (AAAA), the Minister indicated his intention to ensure that the recommendations made in the recent Commonwealth Consumer Affairs Advisory Council (CCAAC) Inquiry into vehicle data sharing are fully implemented.