Equipment/Supply Focus
In order to create your PMP, you’re going to need a few tools. Robert Andre, president of Tamarac, FL-based Car Wash College, said operators should: 1. Create a 30-day schedule using a dry erase calendar; 2. Label weeks 1–4 and fill in daily, (Continued from page 21)
weekly, and monthly tasks in perma- nent marker; 3. Leave space for sign-off boxes to be initialed when the service is complete; 4. In addition to the 30-day calendar, an annual dry erase calendar can be help- ful as well; 5. Using the annual calendar, you can
also plan a years worth of repairs and projects with some forecasting and scheduling; 6. Next, create an equipment log, utiliz- ing a three-ring binder for each piece of equipment at the location. Document all service and repairs both scheduled and unscheduled, but not those in the PMP. Include the date, car volume since last performed, and whether the service was scheduled or unscheduled. 7. Add notes, tools, required parts, part numbers used, vendors and the time it took perform the repair; 8. List potential causes if a repair was premature. This will help with sched- uling future repairs to avoid downtime.
