| Many people who run a full-service carwash | | | | time until someone used his assembly line approach to |
| remember that their business is very labor-intensive | | | | wash them. In theory and in this philosophical discussion |
| and therefore they spent a lot of time worrying about | | | | there is no difference between manufacturing and |
| management and rightfully so. What kind of | | | | washing cars.Carwashes are generally fairly robotic |
| management advice can I give to a carwash business | | | | and any full-service carwash there is any assembly |
| after being in the carwash business for 27 years?Well, | | | | line principle. The cars coming in are vacuumed, then |
| I believe it is important to look at the service business | | | | they are pre-washed, next they go through the tunnel |
| of the carwash as a manufacturing type business | | | | where they are washed, soaped and rinsed. Next they |
| instead. Consider if you will it is pure production. The | | | | run thru the air blower to remove most of the water |
| more cars you wash, the more efficiently you wash | | | | and then a crew or team dries off the car.My |
| them and a less cost you use while washing them; the | | | | management advice for carwashes is stop thinking of |
| more money you make.What is the difference if you | | | | car washing as a service and start thinking of car |
| are building a car along the an assembly line or you | | | | washing as a manufacturing production line. Now then, |
| are taking a car and washing it to remove God's dirt | | | | you can still think of car washing as a service when |
| and put back on the ground where God had intended it | | | | dealing with the customer but not while washing the |
| be? When Henry Ford came along and built a bunch | | | | cars. Think of this in 2006. |
| of cars to catch all the dirt, it was only a matter of | | | | |