After somewhat despairing about who I could bring myself to vote for in the lead-up to this year’s general election, this is the first time I can remember that my vote is less likely to be for a pa
I recently attended a conference in Christchurch that was based around science and critical thinking – along with exposing some very uncritical thinking (read conspiracy theories).
Snow, frost and rain seem to be the focus of the weather recently, it makes it hard to get inspired, or to even get out of bed in the morning, and when keeping warm is a priority can affect work an
A friend from Engineering School recently made a semi humorous post on Facebook about his first solar powered calculator that he had rediscovered in a drawer – actually a slide rule (need light to
As well as editing Motor Equipment News I also edit another of our titles – DEMM Engineering & Manufacturing which ties in with my own engineering background.
An interesting trend we have seen over the last five or so years is that a fairly large number of automotive repair businesses just cease to exist at some point.
As well as Motor Equipment News we publish three other magazines, including DEMM Engineering & Manufacturing, due to this we get quite a lot of information arriving around the likely impacts of
In 2024 the watchword was ‘survive till 2025’, when things were supposed to pick up. Any 2025 pick up has been slow and uneven, so survive to 2025 has become survive 2025 for many businesses.
This issue has our annual pre-holiday servicing feature; it is a reminder to workshops that this is a time of year you can generate some extra business from your customers by helping them make sure
Over the last month I have been to visit a few repairers to write case studies on behalf of clients (you would have seen one on Auto Super Shoppe Mayne in the September issue.)
We are seeing a huge shake-up around training, starting with the government’s decision to put most of the Polytechnics back to individual businesses rather than part of Te Pūkenga – and similarly t
There is a growing trend for car manufacturers to extend the warranty period for new cars, especially with the growth in the number of active manufacturers in the NZ market.
We have a couple of articles this issue on the testing of new vehicles by manufacturers, one focuses on testing for occupant safety and the other on new winter testing facilities in Finland.
