Lean special guests

Collision Repair Expo Preview

With over 30 years’ experience in the collision repair industry with positions ranging from technician to international consultant, Kirk is well placed to comment on Lean production techniques from a real world perspective.

“Theory will only get you so far,” Kirk says. As the global leader of AkzoNobel Process Centred Environment Program which blends elements of Lean, TOC and Six Sigma, Kirk will share with attendees many of the highs and lows of changing crash repair businesses to make them truly sustainable and ‘fit for the future.

“Visionary, knowledgeable and passionate” are all words that have been used to describe Michael Giarrizzo Junior, the president and CEO of DCR Systems, a multi-shop operation with its headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio.

Giarrizzo has been a pioneer of Lean manufacturing principles in the North American collision repair industry and has gone beyond Lean and into unchartered territory. He has implemented a process that is replicable, scalable and above all highly profitable.