The Auto Glass Safety Council™ (AGSC) will hold a training and accreditation program in suburban Seattle this June. The course will be held on Thursday, June 2, at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue in Bellevue, Wash. The training course will be held from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. and the certification
A few weeks back I wrote a post called ‘Setting the Standard for Safe Automotive Glass Installations.’ I talked about Auto Glass Safety Council™ (AGSC) Registered Member Companies that were frustrated with the quality of automotive glass work in their market.
I have been in contact with two different glass shop owners recently who both asked me the same two-part question.
In my training courses, I typically explain that my instruction is not vehicle specific. With all the old and new vehicles in the marketplace, it would take months instead of days to teach automotive glass installation one vehicle at a time.
The term Automated Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) has been coming up more and more often in the industry in recent months, along with the question about how the industry will handle these. ADAS functions via cameras which are mounted on the windshield and other vehicle glass. Following a windshield replacement,
I pride myself on always looking for the answers to the question ‘why?’ Whether an issue comes up during one of my training sessions, via a customer interaction or through a colleague’s inquiry, I’m always searching for the reasoning behind a directive.
I am interrupting my series on the ANSI/AGSC/AGRSS™ Standard 003-2015 to discuss the use and the slow obsolescence of (some types) of glass dams. A glass dam is a device that holds back a material from going where it is not supposed to go.
The gasket (weatherstrip) installation is quickly becoming a thing of the past. However, there are a few gasket sets still out there. The vehicles they are mounted in are being used every day to transport families and friends.
Part four in our series of ANSI/AGSC/AGRSS™ Standard 003-2015 changes is related to adhesives and their importance to the safety of the installation.
The next series of changes for the new ANSI/AGSC/AGRSS™ Standard 003-2015 standard is under the 5.0 heading ‘Selection of Glass and Retention Systems’ which falls under the Product Performance part of our scope.