How PPG’s innovations are improving key-to-key productivity and shop profitability.

In today’s competitive marketplace, the high production collision repair centre must be relentless in improving key-to-key productivity. That holds especially true in the paint operation, where colour accuracy and throughput performance play a key role in a shop’s overall performance.

Taking advantage of emerging digital colour tools is one area where significant gains can be achieved. For example, marrying the innovative PPG MOONWALK® automated mixing system with the ENVIROBASE® High Performance waterborne system is proof of what can be accomplished.

With over 40,000 users worldwide, the Envirobase High Performance system is well known for easy blending, colour match performance and overall efficiency. The MoonWalk system was designed specifically to take the Envirobase system to the next level of colour accuracy and performance.

“It mixes to the hundredth—not to the tenth—so it’s much more accurate with colour match,” explains Frank McClosky, Owner, Frank’s Collision Repair, Baytown, Texas. “Knowing that the colour is going to match the first time, there’s no need to mix extra paint that you might need to tint.”

“This is a great advantage for us,” adds Carl Garcia, Owner of Carl’s Collision Center, Fall River, Mass. “It’s 100% accurate. No waste. And it has increased our efficiency by at least 15%.”

Going all in with digital tools

The MoonWalk mixing system is just one of PPG’s recent efforts to advance colour-matching performance beyond paint. Recently it introduced the PPG LINQ™ ecosystem to help painters improve repair processes using an innovative cloud-based platform and interconnected digital tools:

• DIGIMATCH™ spectrophotometer, with a compact, multi-angle colour camera for reading the actual vehicle colour
• VISUALIZID™ digital colour visualization tool enabling the technician to compare 3D “virtual sprayouts” to determine the best colour variant formula
• PPG LINQ Color cloud-based software for easily identifying the best colour from PPG’s extensive formula database
• MAGICBOX™ wireless device connects the software to the scale, enabling the technician to complete the mix quickly without the need for a separate PC

The Envirobase High Performance paint system is compatible with every tool in the PPG LINQ digital ecosystem, making it the perfect solution for modern collision centres.

Learn more at ppgrefinish.com.