The New Repair Network
The repair network of today is not your grandfather’s or your father’s repair network; in fact it may not even be your older brother’s repair network. Vehicles are becoming more sophisticated with every new model that rolls off the production line. They’re no longer merely a mode of transportation—they’re complex computer networks on wheels.
Motor Vehicle Markets Q4 2017
We recap the motor vehicle markets trends from Q4 2017, highlighting the best-selling U.S. cars, trucks, and current used vehicle market conditions.
Ensuring Mitchell’s Cloud Transition Is Safe, Secure, and Stable for Our Customers
While Mitchell has been exploring, testing and even migrating our internal business systems to the cloud for several years, the launch of Mitchell Cloud Estimating marks a milestone on our journey. Like many companies, Uber and Dropbox among them, we have settled on a hybrid public / private solution, putting specific workloads where they function best and best serve our clients’ needs. This article provides insight into what matters most on this journey—our clients, the safety and security of their data, and the stability of their software.
Estimating Elevated: Five Reasons Collision Repair Facilities Should Make the Move to the Cloud
The concept of cloud computing has rapidly moved from being a transitional technology to mainstream as companies and industries recognize the need to provide efficient and agile solutions for their organizations. According to IDG, the average company has 45% of its IT environment in a cloud.
Making the Most Out of Your Data: Four Tips for Engaging with Claims Consultants
For insurance carriers, finding ways to capitalize on the growing volume and velocity of information is a critical challenge. We have experienced a lifetime of automotive technological change in just the past decade and it is becoming increasingly difficult to stay in front of the latest advancements in repairing today’s complex vehicles while still leveraging data to manage an efficient and profitable claims operation.
Making Recall Data Available When it’s Most Valuable: At the Time of a Vehicle Repair
Today there are tens of millions of vehicles driven on roads all across the United States that have open recalls for safety systems or other non-safety issues. As a US Federal agency, the National Highway Transportation Safety Agency, NHTSA, regulates the safety of motor vehicles and related equipment. It lies within their jurisdiction to issue vehicle safety standards and require manufacturers to recall vehicles and equipment that have safety-related defects.
Average Length of Rental for Repairable Vehicles: Q3 2017
Average Length of Rental (LOR) for Q3 2017 landed at 12.1 days in the United States, an increase of just 0.2 days compared to Q3 2016. This is a continuation of the general course throughout the calendar year, although a few months produced measurable increases. Once again, there was very little consistency between regions and states, suggesting that the quarterly result for the U.S. is not reflective of a genuine national trend.