Going digital in the auto body shop

Pacific Service Center increased profitability and reduced time to cash by moving from whiteboards to digital displays, digitalizing estimation and work planning, and scheduling with virtual bay visualizations.

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REVVING UP THE TECH:

Pacific Service Center Business Automation Platform

Pacific Service Center is the region’s largest and fastest growing independent commercial vehicle service company.

The founders recognized the power of digitization early, and began themselves using Smartsheets. As business grew, so did their technology needs. PSC partnered with Germinate to migrate the spreadsheet-driven schedule and management app into a visual, Web and mobile app to guide all aspects of the business.

PSC Scheduler screenshot

From whiteboards to the big screen

As PSC grows, the new app scales to meet the needs. New business lines? You bet. Changes to the parts ordering process (because, supply chain chaos)? No sweat. New kiosk and display apps to get technicians wrenching to the same beat? Let’s do it.

Germinate and PSC have partnered to wrangle the chaos of multi-location, multi-bay operations into a repeatable, scalable process.

Turns out, big rig repair and fleet maintenance is not so different from software development. When you make things about customer value and efficiency, success follows.

How Germinate turbocharged a big rig repair shop’s workflows

The Challenge

Paper and whiteboard processes made change difficult and required too many in person meetings. Jobs hitting the shop before parts or staff readiness led to bay downtime and reworks.

Invoicing delays and unpredictable revenue put profits out of reach.

Our Strategy

Start with the most valuable step in process (in this case the visual scheduler).

Apply brushstrokes on both UI and Data Layer.

Know your user and keep interfaces simple.

The Solution

Smartsheets Conversion - create one relational database and source of truth.

Visual Scheduling to see the big picture.

Independent mobile and desktop interfaces to meet users at the point of need.

We sat in the front seat to guide
the team on this journey

On-the-go
scheduling for rapid
fleet readiness
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From manual to
automatic work orders,
at full speed
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Real-time 360°
vehicle diagnostics
and detailing
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"PSC has always used technology to get things done faster. We don’t overthink it, we just test, try, and use what works. Usually we do it ourselves, because not many folks outside of our industry really get our world. Working with Germinate is different. They want to understand, and help us get better for ourselves.”

Dan Reichenach, PSC

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