Executive Manager Report
by Charlie Gorman
Membership:
This year we have added ten new Full Members: Bartec USA
LLC, Matco Industries, Trimble Mobile Resource, Actia Inc., IOSiX LLC, FuzzyLuke Inc., Noregon Systems Inc., VRM
Technologies, Test Products International and Redline Protection Inc.
We also added three new associate members: Cabeco, Speedemissions and
Christian Brothers Automotive.
We currently have 60 Full Members and 14 associate members for
a total of 74
Financial:
We have put together a new Finance Committee. The purpose
of this committee will be to look after ETI assets, determine what dues should be for next year and beyond and
develop a budget. We have always done these things in the past of course, but not through the use of a
special committee. In the past this was always handled by the Executive Committee. The members of this
committee are:
John
Wiedemann
(Chairman)
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Weld Racing
Wheels
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Ron Carpenter
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ETI's
Accountant
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Charlie Gorman
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ETI
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Tom Fisher
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SPX
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Mike Cable
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Hickok
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Greg Potter
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DG Tech
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Bill Eernisse
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Dover
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Dan Brass
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Bright
Solutions
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Derek Miller
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Alldata
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Ben Johnson
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Alldata
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It looks like ETI's reserves will be about $810,000 at the
end of the year.
Marketing committee:
Company Profiles
We are requesting that ETI members look into your company
history and see if there is something to share with other members and the world. If you can put some text
and pictures together, we will publish right here in this newsletter. Take a look at this
issues' profile on
Hickok, Inc. This is what we are
looking for. You will also notice that in the sidebar are instructions on what you need to do to turn in
a profile for your company.
Member Recruiting
We are going to put extra effort into recruiting non-scan
tool companies into ETI this coming Year. Dan Brass, this year's Marketing VP has put together a
spreadsheet of target companies for everyone to concentrate on. You can reach him at
dbrass@etools.org.
We are also going to work on adding services that will help
justify ETI membership even more. Mr. Brass and Mr. Gorman are working with SEMA to see if there are ways
we can work together with OEMs to obtain CAD/CAM drawings that will help our members determine spatial
requirements when designing new equipment for new OEM models. This will benefit Under car Group members
as well as Collision Repair Group members. More on this as it develops
2011 Marketing Survey
This year's marketing Survey has to do with Collision
Repair Equipment. The survey has been completed and turned over to AIM Inc., an information management
company. This will be our third year with them. They helped us launch our Reprogramming, TPMS and
Telematics surveys. We will be using the Babcox collision repair magazine mailing list which we think
will provide us with a high hit rate.
We will be gathering and analyzing data over the winter and
will present our findings at ToolTech in early May 2011.
Shop Planning and Investment Guide
The Shop Planning and Investment Guide once was an
important and useful document published by the institute. Now we are bringing back, but this time on line.
We are still waiting for reports on Environmental and
Safety, Shop Layout and Design and the Equipment Check List. The parts that are completed are already on
the website. You can view them here.
Scan Tool Statistical Report
There were a few member companies interested in
reviving ETI's Statistical Reports. It was decided that we should concentrate on scan tools first since
there are so many companies who make them. It was thought that this would be the easiest product segment
to launch. But there has been some resistance to this plan. Mr. Gorman sent out an email containing
some questions and a list of possible tracking categories. The response was very light. This topic
has been tabled until the next Board meeting.
Program Committee:
The Theme for ToolTech 2011 is “The Shop Of
Tomorrow”. We will be focusing on the new realities of the Tool and Equipment Marketplace. The “Shop Of
Tomorrow” will provide a roadmap to the future with insights into industry trends and standards affecting our
member companies, changes and challenges in the marketplace, and a look into the future of the tool and equipment
industry.
We are still finalizing speakers and topics for the
event. Some of the topics that are being pursued include: Automotive Update From Capitol Hill”, "The
Role of OEM Scan Tools in the Aftermarket Shop of the Future", “A Roadmap to the Future from the National Service
Providers”, “Technologies and Standards Enabling the Automotive Aftermarket”, and “The Realities of Fleet Service
for Today and Tomorrow”.
Last year's addition of the Showcase Happy
Hour was a big hit and generated traffic for the booths, so we will once again have a Showcase Happy Hour Wednesday
evening in the booth area.
The One-on-One Meetings continue to be beneficial to
both the ETI Members and the OEM’s and National Accounts and will take place on Wednesday and Thursday
afternoons.
We have changed the name of the golf event at
ToolTech from the “ETI Tee Time Golf Tournament” to the “ETI Golf Outing at ToolTech” We will be promoting
the ETI Golf Outing as a fun-filled event with special rules and prizes to draw a bigger crowd than in past
years. The event will be a Best Ball Scramble.
Technical Committee:
Winter Tech Week 2010
Individual OEM meetings will be held at Snap-on's Tokyo office –
JAMA ETI meeting will be held at the headquarter Hotel.
The website has been launched. Most of everything is
there including the schedule and OEM presentation information. We will be receiving
presentations from 10 manufacturers. If you haven't registered, please do so
now.
To ensure you receive the conference hotel rate, be sure to make
your reservation before the deadline of Friday, November 12 , 2010. Reservations made after the deadline are
on a space available basis, and the conference room rate is not guaranteed.
Here is the link to go to ETI's Winter Tech Week
Pages. Everything you need to know can
be found there.
Questions to the OEMs – were sent on
time.
Summer Tech Week 2011
We are working with GM engineering and SPX DES services to try to
get GM more involved in 2011. At least from a scan
tool standpoint, John Van Gilder has agreed to participate and there are others as well. I think GM
will be back in 2011.
The Hotel is going to be the Embassy Suites, Troy, MI again.
The dates are June 14 to 16, 2011.
The appreciation Dinner will be at the Walter P. Chrysler Museum
on June 16, 2011.
TEK-NET Library Update
Mr. Gorman visited Total Solutions in August to discuss changes to
the Library. The topic will be porting the library over to SharePoint Server. We need to have a
meeting of the scan tool stakeholders to put together a document describing exactly what is needed and then
using that document to get a quote from Total Solutions.
Disks have been going out at a regular clip. This year we
are going to have an extra release because we got quite a lot of data off cycle this year. Toyota,
Ford, VW, KIA, and Mazda have all released data in October. These disks will be sent out in early
November.
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