November 1, 2010  

 

Executive Manager Report by Charlie Gorman


Charlie GormanMembership:

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)

Weld Racing Wheels

Ron Carpenter

ETI's Accountant

Charlie Gorman

ETI

Tom Fisher

SPX

Mike Cable

Hickok

Greg Potter

DG Tech

Bill Eernisse

Dover

Dan Brass

Bright Solutions

Derek Miller

Alldata

Ben Johnson

Alldata


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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2010 Winter Tech Week

Full Members of ETI:

Registration is now open for Winter Tech Week.

When: December 6-9, 2010
Where: Tokyo, Japan

Click here for more info and registration.


You can now purchase  copies of ETI's Market Research Survey Reports on Flash Reprogramming, TPMS and Telematics.  Click Here for more information.


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