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ASA's Collision Division subcommittees have been established to focus on specific industry issues and /or to work with other industry related entities such as: vehicle manufacturers, insurance vendors, recyclers, parts manufacturers, information providers, paint companies and others that affect the estimating and repair process.
The subcommittees may also be appointed to maintain industry relations in areas of legislation, environment, education, or any other area that may affect the collision repair industry.
Collision Division Operations Committee members are appointed to serve on subcommittees by the division director and subcommittee chairperson.
Automobile Manufacturer - Dan Bailey, chair: The purpose of the Auto Manufacturer subcommittee is to address areas relating to Auto Manufacturers and OEM processes. Currently this team is looking at repairability of vehicles at the design level and the affects this has on vehicle totals. In the recent past, the team contacted all major vehicle manufacturers, to determine the OEM certification requirements for collision shops. The overall goal of this ASA team is to relate with and relay information to vehicle manufacturers.
Crash Parts - Ron Nagy, AAM, chair: The purpose of the Crash Parts Subcommittee is to address areas relating to certified parts, non-certified parts, aftermarket parts and recycled parts. Members of the ASA Crash Parts Subcommittee currently participate with CAPA, the United Recyclers Group (URG) and the Automotive Recycler’s Association (ARA). Reconditioned wheels, total losses, purchasing systems and proper identification of parts are areas the team is focusing on.
Estimating - Mike Anderson, chair: The purpose of the Estimating Subcommittee is to address areas relating to the various estimating systems and estimating procedures. Currently, ASA has representatives on all the major estimating systems and participates actively with the CIC Database Task Force and the joint Database Enhancement Gateway (DEG) project. The DEG project was introduced to the collision repair industry in late 2007 with a goal of supporting the industry to improve the overall accuracy of the estimating databases.
Insurance - Mike Schoonover, chair: The purpose of the Insurance subcommittee is to address areas relating the relationship between Insurance partners and repairers. Being composed of participants in Direct Repair Programs and non-Direct Repair Programs, this subcommittee was instrumental in the creation of an official ASA statement addressing Third Party Auditing and Open Platforms. The overall goal of the Insurance subcommittee is to improve the shop and insurer relationship.
Refinish - Dan Stander, chair: The purpose of the Refinish Subcommittee is to address areas relating to the refinish process of collision repair. Finding solutions to the issues of blending and feather, fill and block sand continue to be a focus of this team. In addition to a lengthy time study and formula creation for feather, fill and block sand, the ASA Refinish Fliers, the ASA Refinish Worksheet and collecting documentation from all the major paint manufacturers regarding Blend, this team has created an ASA official position addressing blend and will continue to prove the case for proper compensation of this highly technical refinish process.
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