Message from the President

ETI has been very busy with events and implementing more programs and tools to improve the ETI membership experience.

Summer Tech Week was well attended this year and the presentations were informative and well received. The technical information and presentations were educational and engaging and the topics were useful and contained many new MY vehicle details.

With ASRW breaking off from AAPEX/SEMA (Industry Week) this year, ETI partnered with ASA and ASRW to bring ETI diagnostic scan tool member companies to the annual event October 11-13 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.

ETI is sponsored the ETI Scan Tool Pavilion that allowed attendees to see and meet with Diagnostic Tool Manufacturers at the event to explore ways to expand their current business/market share versus outsourcing that business.

There was a Scan Tool Theater that offered presentations daily for education and training. ETI member companies that participated in the Scan Tool Pavilion and Theater included: ATEQ, Autoland Scientech, Innova, ProgRama, Robert Bosch, and SPX Corp.

If you have not visited the ETI website (www.etools.org) recently, I suggest you take some time to check out the updates and additions. ETI is in the process of updating the Equipment Investment Planning Guide for the website. This will allow end users to get advice and plan for all the equipment their repair facility needs now and into the future. There is also a Return On Investment (ROI) calculator that provides quick ROI information and the ability to email member companies for product and equipment details.

ETI members will benefit from the product exposure as well as a marketing tool that can be used by their potential customers as well as their sales organization. And while you are visiting the website, please take a moment to provide feedback by participating in a brief survey regarding our website by clicking the link at the bottom right on our home page.
 
Lastly, I would like to take this opportunity to remind all of the ETI Members that registration is open for ETI's Winter Tech Week December 6-9, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan. Winter Tech Week provides OEM engineers and designers and ETI companies a forum to meet, collaborate and discuss the upcoming service needs of new makes and models, and the changes necessary in the tool and equipment industry to meet those needs. I encourage all of the ETI Member companies to send representatives to attend and learn about the new technologies being implemented that may affect the aftermarket tool
and equipment industry and plan for those new technologies. More details and the full schedule will be available soon on the ETI website.

Mike Cable
President, Equipment and Tool Institute