Designing and setting-up a car workshop is a demanding challenge as it requires technical skills, industry experience, know-how, in terms of design, aesthetics and safety.
The aim is to create a functional, safe, efficient and visually pleasing environment.
What are the must-haves for setting up a garage workshop? How to identify the appropriate supplier to set up a complex working environment? Read the article to find out.
A garage workshop setup “to make a difference'”: the strategic phases
How does a complex environment such as Automotive “comes to life”?
The first step is to select a trusted partner to guide the brand in the realization of specially designed spaces.
The second step is to define, together with the customer, a strategy to maximize the value of the working area, making it more performing, efficient, and safe.
Here are the must-haves of a goal-oriented project.
Defining Corporate purposes
Defining business objectives is critical to understand the customer's needs, examining possible variables in terms of productivity, organization and all the opportunities for improvement. A deep analysis with the customer is necessary to evaluate a series of conditions, which determine the real needs and the possible solutions. A competent supplier will organize the first meeting in presence, at the customer's premises, to analyze the spaces and then present the first hypothetical solutions.
Which is the focus?
Workflow analysis
First of all, it is essential to analyze the specific workflow of the workshop, dealership or official maintenance network. This will affect the layout of workstations, equipment and storage areas. Efforts will be made to minimize unnecessary movements and ensure that staff have free access to everything they need. This modus operandi will reduce downtime while improving efficiency and performance. Then the focus will be on the spaces organization.
Security Management
Safety is of paramount importance in a machine shop. The design must, therefore, ensure spaces that comply with the main protection measures: ensure good ventilation, provide spaces for fire protection systems, indicate emergency exits clearly, visible to all, and remove any obstacles in the workig area.
Garage workshop setup: rendering
The graphical representation of requirements and their translation into 3D drawings are fundamental to solve complex challenges and a functional layout for a workshop.
Selecting the modules of an installation is one of the most complex choices. Furniture must meet requirements of strength, quality and efficiency.
Choice of composition
Trolleys, drawer units, doors and ecological containers must be installed to ensure that everything is close to technicians to prevent more movement than necessary. An efficient organization of the spaces promotes cleanliness and order in the working areas, also minimizing risks for technicians.
Sustainability: Waste Management and Material Quality
The Automotive market is also making strategic choices to make its activities less environmental impact. Waste management, in a sector that produces a wide variety of waste, is an aspect that ties in very well with the concept of sustainability. Defining an effective disposal method makes the difference. For this reason, the partner will have to study, together with the customer, the best positions to provide ecological containers and ensure that they are equipped with the right separators to deliver both recyclable materials and those requiring dedicated disposal.
A set-up for dealerships, workshops and official maintenance networks is aligned with sustainability requirements thanks also to the installation of removable trays to collect oils and used liquids: these allow drainage, while maintaining the rustproof characteristics necessary for durability.
Opting for quality Made in Italy furniture, made with quality materials and finishes, ensures a working environment that will perform well over the decades, requiring no maintenance or renovation.
Design and aesthetics
Although the functional aspect is crucial, it is also important to enhance aesthetics.
Professional furniture design is another aspect to consider, especially when the workshop must comply with the design guidelines provided by the various brands. Sophisticated design is not only synonymous with aesthetic quality, but also with structural quality.
Welding is aesthetically clean and also guarantees functionality and durability. The metal sheets are coated with scratch protection and resist to acidic and corrosive materials; this help to keep the environment clean and elegant.
A very important aspect that should not be underestimated when looking for a workshop fitter is the origin of the materials. Made in Italy fittings offer not only the quality and safety of the product, but also the guarantee that the materials are available locally.
Customer Presentation
Once the rendering is ready, it is essential to explain the project in details to the customer. It is in this phase that emerges the ability of the supplier to understand the real needs of the customer, offering them solutions tailored to their needs. At this point, the project is updated and refined, before moving on to the final stage of economic negotiation.
In today's article, we talked about the design of a garage workshop setup, identifying the must-haves of a goal-oriented path to increasing efficiency, quality and safety in the complex environment. Request a free consultation with one of our technicians and discover how you can renovate your workshop!
