Abstract:
The purpose of this research was to study and compare the reasons why car paints and body repair garages by the Insurance Garage Association do not performing by using garage businesss general information. Also, this study evaluated ways to increase efficiency in the repair process as suggested by the businesss general information. The samples collected included 192 managers and managing directors of businesses. Questionnaires were used to collect the data. Percentage, frequency, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA, and Scheffe were used to analyze the data obtained. It was found that most respondents were male, over 50 years old, had a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent, over 10 years of management experience, and over 10 years of experience in car paints and body repair garages business. Most businesses were in the form of a Company Limited. They averaged about 10-20 employees and had been open for business for over 8 years. These repair and paint garages serviced approximately 51-100 cars / month. From the questionnaire, it was found that an average cars of 1-5 cars / month were delivered later than the estimated completion date.
The study indicated that overall there were a number of causes of different levels of importance to explain why car paints and body repair garages by the Insurance Garage Association do not performing. Highly significant causes include not having sufficient workloads for technical employees, employees lacking in knowledge and work skills, and insurance payments not being received within the specified time.
The study classified these causes for lack of certification by the type of business, the duration that business had been established, and number of cars that were serviced for car paints and body repair, and found that overall there was no significant difference by these classifications. These classifications did show that there is a difference in equipment and tools availability. Businesses with fewer than 10 employees were less likely to have the tools and equipment required for technical operations than larger businesses with 10-20 employees. Businesses with fewer than 10 employees were more likely to have difficulty locating technically proficient employees than larger businesses with 10-20 employees.
Overall, this study showed that the business owners gave a high level of attention to all aspects of the business for car paints and body repair industry, and when considered by individual aspects the highest priorities were given to quality control standards and maintaining enough equipment for employees.
Comparing levels of priority of the optimization process for the industrial car paints and body repair garages business as distinguished by the businesss general information found that was no significant difference overall or for individual aspects studied. The statistical significance level of this study was set at .05.