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Focus on working hours
In collaboration with the Federal Vehicle Technology Guild and the Interest Group for Vehicle Technology and Painting (IFL), the automotive industry is designing a series to avoid errors and defects in working hours. This time with Federal Guild Master Deputy Manfred Kubik.
Focus on working hours
"It's gotten better, we've had a little more reports recently," says Manfred Kubik happily. The Federal Guild Master Deputy of the Federal Guild of Automotive Technology and the highest representative of body construction technicians still sees a lot of potential for improvement when it comes to the companies' cooperation in matters of IFL. The interest group for vehicle technology and painting (IFL) was founded in 2007 as an interest group for the body and painting industry. The aim is to eliminate errors and deficiencies in working hours in the common computer-supported calculation systems (Eurotax, Schwacke, DAT, Audatex) and to resolve this in dialogue with the damage calculation providers and automobile manufacturers.
The workshop is left with additional work
“We need to sensitize people even more. So that they say, ‘It didn’t take me 2.3 hours to make the windshield, but maybe 2.5 hours,’” says Kubik, who also succeeds his predecessor Erik Paul Papinski on the board of the World Association of Coachbuilders AIRC. "For example, there is a model - I think it was a Seat Alhambra that a colleague once told me about - where you have to take off the A-pillar panels on the left and right, otherwise you can't get the windscreen out. But that's not stored with the data providers. And then the expert who checks the invoice may say that this isn't necessary according to Eurotax. Ultimately, the workshop is left with the workload. That's why it's so important to include things like this in the IFL system to be maintained.”