AUTO Shop Business Goals

This shop counts on the two side-by-side Global Finishing Solutions downdraft spray booths and a specialty auxilliary booth to achieve the high production level it wants. Supported by a trained staff in an efficiently-planned shop, layouts such as this can make it possible to finish 16-20 or more vehicles a day.

Knowing your business goals will help you design the right space. As you begin, evaluate:

1. Types of Vehicles
You Repair
Make stalls for passenger cars, small trucks and vans 12 ft. wide and 24 ft. deep. This will give you at least 4 ft. of working space between cars. Increase the width of a stall lying along a wall to 15 ft. to allow enough workspace on both sides of a vehicle placed in it. Compact cars require less space. You can see how knowing the size of the vehicles you will work on – domestic, foreign, vans and pick-ups, etc, - or the percentage of each, will help you figure out the size and number of stalls you’ll need. And this same information will help you select the right body straightening and metal repair equipment.

2. Number of Vehicles Processed per Week
This is really important for choosing prep stations, spray booths, pulling systems, etc. Accelerated curing equipment such as SmartCure™ from Global Finishing Solutions can finish between 10 to 14 cars per 8-hour shift, while non-heated models may produce as few a 2 to 3 per shift. Knowing what production level you wish to achieve is critical in making the right choice.

3.Type of Work Desired
Cycle times are extremely important to collision shops in direct repair programs. Conversely, restoration shops are not as concerned with quick turnaround. Shops repairing medium or heavy-duty trucks will require different facility and equipment considerations. Again, your answers will help you and your suppliers determine your space and equipment needs. And the answers should be in your business goals.

4.Present and Future Employees
The number of employees you have working will have a lot to do with your production and space requirements.

5. Work Hours per Week
Your work hours per week split between frame, metal and refinish operations. To get the most out each department, you need the right equipment, arranged in the right way, in the right amount of space.

6. Your Desired Market or Image
A overall high-tech, professional image must be supported by high-tech equipment and a high-tech outside appearance. Consider what the interior and exterior of your building say about you to customers.

7. Location
Many shop owners are realizing that shops gain more customers if they are placed in high-visibility locations. Customers are becoming more convenience-oriented every year. An attractive shop located on a busy road is great advertisement.

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AUTO Shop Business Goals

This shop counts on the two side-by-side Global Finishing Solutions downdraft spray booths and a specialty auxilliary booth to achieve the high production level it wants. Supported by a trained staff in an efficiently-planned shop, layouts such as this can make it possible to finish 16-20 or more vehicles a day.

Knowing your business goals will help you design the right space. As you begin, evaluate:

1. Types of Vehicles
You Repair
Make stalls for passenger cars, small trucks and vans 12 ft. wide and 24 ft. deep. This will give you at least 4 ft. of working space between cars. Increase the width of a stall lying along a wall to 15 ft. to allow enough workspace on both sides of a vehicle placed in it. Compact cars require less space. You can see how knowing the size of the vehicles you will work on – domestic, foreign, vans and pick-ups, etc, - or the percentage of each, will help you figure out the size and number of stalls you’ll need. And this same information will help you select the right body straightening and metal repair equipment.

2. Number of Vehicles Processed per Week
This is really important for choosing prep stations, spray booths, pulling systems, etc. Accelerated curing equipment such as SmartCure™ from Global Finishing Solutions can finish between 10 to 14 cars per 8-hour shift, while non-heated models may produce as few a 2 to 3 per shift. Knowing what production level you wish to achieve is critical in making the right choice.

3.Type of Work Desired
Cycle times are extremely important to collision shops in direct repair programs. Conversely, restoration shops are not as concerned with quick turnaround. Shops repairing medium or heavy-duty trucks will require different facility and equipment considerations. Again, your answers will help you and your suppliers determine your space and equipment needs. And the answers should be in your business goals.

4.Present and Future Employees
The number of employees you have working will have a lot to do with your production and space requirements.

5. Work Hours per Week
Your work hours per week split between frame, metal and refinish operations. To get the most out each department, you need the right equipment, arranged in the right way, in the right amount of space.

6. Your Desired Market or Image
A overall high-tech, professional image must be supported by high-tech equipment and a high-tech outside appearance. Consider what the interior and exterior of your building say about you to customers.

7. Location
Many shop owners are realizing that shops gain more customers if they are placed in high-visibility locations. Customers are becoming more convenience-oriented every year. An attractive shop located on a busy road is great advertisement.

Cherry from Guangzhou YOKI Machinery Manufacturing Co.,Ltd,we are a professional manufacturer and designer for spray booth,prep station,mixing room,industrial painting line,shower testing room and offer all kinds of products for auto maintenance.

Cherry from Guangzhou YOKI Machinery Manufacturing Co.,Ltd,we are a professional manufacturer and designer for spray booth,prep station,mixing room,industrial painting line,shower testing room and offer all kinds of products for auto maintenance.

Cherry YOKI
Sales Manager
Guangzhou YOKI Machinery Manufacturing Co,. LtdSkype:yoki-spraybooth
Moblie: +86 -13066349312
http://www.yoki-spraybooth.com

YOKI Brand Prep Stations

mproved factory finishes have given new importance to prepping and priming operations. Prep stations help control and improve these operations. A properly designed prep station offers many advantages:

1. Downdraft prep stations surround the vehicle with a curtain of air, which sweeps the sanding dust off the vehicle and into the filters beneath it.

2. Many units feature modular construction, so they can be customized for your specific building and shop layout.

3. Most units re-circulate filtered air, which lowers shop heating costs. Some units have inside/outside dampers for venting fumes outside during priming operations.

Buyers have a choice of pit or semi-downdraft styles. Pit models provide a better curtain of air around the entire vehicle.

Although a prep station will trap most of the dust generated by typical sanding and grinding operations, some collision shop owners also install a dust collection system to provide even better dust control.

If you are going to install several prep stations that will exhaust air to the outside, you should consider installing an air replacement unit to supply clean, heated outside air into your shop. An air replacement unit will correct the negative air condition caused from the prep stations exhausting shop air outside of your building. Proper sizing and location is very important, so talk to your equipment representative to figure out exactly what your shop will need.

We recommend that a lift be available at each station for work on the rocker panels and lower areas of a car.

CAUTION: Your local jurisdiction may not allow you to prime in a prep station. They will require that a prep station which is also being used as a priming station have an explosion-proof motor, an inside/outside damper assembly and possible other modifications to meet local codes. The damper allows the operator to switch from air re-circulation to air exhaust to carry solvent vapors out of your shop. In this case you may need a limited finishing workstation for priming operations. A limited finishing workstation combines an air replacement unit attached to prep plenum/s. The air replacement unit will provide clean, heated outside air while the workstation is in the “exhaust” mode. A limited finishing workstation will provide a positive pressure environment similar to a pressurized spray booth, resulting in cleaner paint work. Some manufacturers offer curing options on their limited finishing workstations to improve productivity. Again, it is very important to know the codes relative to what you want to accomplish when choosing the proper equipment for your shop.



1: During sanding or prep, the overhead plenum re-circulates clean, filtered air to the workstation. During priming, the inside/outside damper vents solvent vapors to the outside.

2: Each fiber in the paint booth-quality air filters is coated with adhesive. This adhesive traps particles as small as 10 microns permanently, even under severe vibration.

3: An adjustable-pitch, non-sparking fan provides 10,000 cubic feet per minute of airflow through the filtering system.

4: A Magnahelic gauge monitors the filtering systems efficiency at all times.

5: The central filtration chamber holds high-density, ultra-fine bag filters. Acoustic insulation reduces shop noise.

6: The first-stage roll filter at floor level collects large particles of overspray and dust.

YOKI Brand Prep Stations
Model:YK-I-II

YOKI Brand Auto Spray Booth Selection

There are many different styles of spray booths, but their purpose is always the same: to create a controlled, dust-free, well-ventilated and well-lighted area for finishing operations. State-of-the-art booths, such as those Global Finishing Solutions manufactures, provide a clean, well-lighted, well-ventilated enclosed area for spray painting the highest quality finishes, as well as accelerating drying and curing of the wet paint by raising the temperature within the booth to as much as 175 degrees F. This allows the vehicle to be handled within 20 to 30 minutes after it's painted, without damage to the new finish. Spray booths permit paint and cure on a production-line basis.

Knowing your production goals is important when choosing the proper spray booth for your facility. As the chart below shows, a spray booth equipped with SmartCure™ can produce 10 to 14 cars per 8 hour shift compared to, for example, a forced dry booth producing 5 to 7 cars per 8 hour shift.


This raised platform downdraft spray booth with a
ttached mix room required no excavation, and the
increased required ceiling height was
no problem in this shop.




Excavation was required to install this pit-style downdraft spray booth with attached mix room.

Downdraft Spray Booths are available in many models. Pit and raised platform models allow most any shop the opportunity to utilize the benefits of a downdraft spray booth. A drawback to a raised platform booth is that it typically increases the ceiling height required to install the spray booth, and the entrance ramps extend 6 to 7 feet from the product doors. Pit-style downdraft booths require excavation and additional concrete work. Many spray booth manufacturers offer downdraft spray booths in single skin and dual skin insulated models. A single skin model is usually at a lower price point, so it may be worth considering if you are on a tight budget.

Curing the paint in a downdraft booth is accomplished in different ways. A "forced dry" system reduces the air speed in the "cure" mode to achieve a higher temperature rise. A re-circulating cure system will re-circulate the heated air from the cabin, back through the air replacement unit and back into the spray booth. A re-circulating cure system offers several advantages over a forced dry system:

1. Reduced operating costs
2. Quicker temperature rise
3. Higher temperature rise in colder climates
4. Improved airflow while curing
5. Quicker curing of vehicles

Some spray booth manufacturers offer accelerated curing options on their downdraft spray booths. SmartCure™ by Global Finishing Solutions can cure basecoat / clearcoat paint in 8 minutes. Collision shops are able to deliver vehicles in 30 minutes after the paint operation is completed.
There are many options available from spray booth manufacturers worth consideration:

-Drive-thru models
-VOC abatement
-Extended length
-Additional lighting
-Waterborne paint curing
-Location of air replacement units


Semi-downdraft booths draw air from near the shop ceiling into the booth through filters in a plenum on the booth ceiling.


Global Finishing Solutions downdraft side exhaust booths' downdraft plenum /airflow is drawn into full-length exhaust filters along each side.
Semi-Downdraft / Downdraft Side Exhaust Spray Booths represent a compromise between the traditional, but hard-to-get-clean-paint-jobs crossdraft booths, and the downdraft booth. In the semi-downdraft booth, air enters through the filters in the plenum located on the roof of the spray booth, 10 feet above the floor. The air enters the spraying area in a downward flow over the top of the vehicle, and is exhausted through a set of filters located at the opposite end of the spray booth.

The downdraft side exhaust spray booth brings air into the booth in the same same way as the semi-downdraft, but the air is exhausted on both sides of the spray booth.

The advantage of these two models of spray booths is reduced costs, as no concrete work or raised platform is required. These booths can usually be purchased as heated or non-heat models. The heated model is usually available with a forced dry option. Additional options available are:

-Drive thru
-Extended length
-Lighting upgrade

Some shops also use them for painting components like hoods, decks and doors, reserving their larger downdraft booths for complete paint jobs. Many manufacturers can upgrade the non-heated versions of these spray booths at a later date if your production needs require more vehicles later. Again, knowing your production requirements will help you choose the proper equipment.



This Pyramid booth uses simple crossdraft airflow to move overspray into capture filters.

Crossdraft Spray Booths are the oldest booth style still being produced. They've been around for decades. The crossdraft booth moves air horizontally from one end of the booth to the other. While these booths can give you a ventilated and well-lit workplace, they don't do as well when it comes to keeping dust and dirt out of new paint jobs.

YOKI Brand Auto Spray Booth Selection

There are many different styles of spray booths, but their purpose is always the same: to create a controlled, dust-free, well-ventilated and well-lighted area for finishing operations. State-of-the-art booths, such as those Global Finishing Solutions manufactures, provide a clean, well-lighted, well-ventilated enclosed area for spray painting the highest quality finishes, as well as accelerating drying and curing of the wet paint by raising the temperature within the booth to as much as 175 degrees F. This allows the vehicle to be handled within 20 to 30 minutes after it's painted, without damage to the new finish. Spray booths permit paint and cure on a production-line basis.

Knowing your production goals is important when choosing the proper spray booth for your facility. As the chart below shows, a spray booth equipped with SmartCure™ can produce 10 to 14 cars per 8 hour shift compared to, for example, a forced dry booth producing 5 to 7 cars per 8 hour shift.


This raised platform downdraft spray booth with a
ttached mix room required no excavation, and the
increased required ceiling height was
no problem in this shop.




Excavation was required to install this pit-style downdraft spray booth with attached mix room.

Downdraft Spray Booths are available in many models. Pit and raised platform models allow most any shop the opportunity to utilize the benefits of a downdraft spray booth. A drawback to a raised platform booth is that it typically increases the ceiling height required to install the spray booth, and the entrance ramps extend 6 to 7 feet from the product doors. Pit-style downdraft booths require excavation and additional concrete work. Many spray booth manufacturers offer downdraft spray booths in single skin and dual skin insulated models. A single skin model is usually at a lower price point, so it may be worth considering if you are on a tight budget.

Curing the paint in a downdraft booth is accomplished in different ways. A "forced dry" system reduces the air speed in the "cure" mode to achieve a higher temperature rise. A re-circulating cure system will re-circulate the heated air from the cabin, back through the air replacement unit and back into the spray booth. A re-circulating cure system offers several advantages over a forced dry system:

1. Reduced operating costs
2. Quicker temperature rise
3. Higher temperature rise in colder climates
4. Improved airflow while curing
5. Quicker curing of vehicles

Some spray booth manufacturers offer accelerated curing options on their downdraft spray booths. SmartCure™ by Global Finishing Solutions can cure basecoat / clearcoat paint in 8 minutes. Collision shops are able to deliver vehicles in 30 minutes after the paint operation is completed.
There are many options available from spray booth manufacturers worth consideration:

-Drive-thru models
-VOC abatement
-Extended length
-Additional lighting
-Waterborne paint curing
-Location of air replacement units


Semi-downdraft booths draw air from near the shop ceiling into the booth through filters in a plenum on the booth ceiling.


Global Finishing Solutions downdraft side exhaust booths' downdraft plenum /airflow is drawn into full-length exhaust filters along each side.
Semi-Downdraft / Downdraft Side Exhaust Spray Booths represent a compromise between the traditional, but hard-to-get-clean-paint-jobs crossdraft booths, and the downdraft booth. In the semi-downdraft booth, air enters through the filters in the plenum located on the roof of the spray booth, 10 feet above the floor. The air enters the spraying area in a downward flow over the top of the vehicle, and is exhausted through a set of filters located at the opposite end of the spray booth.

The downdraft side exhaust spray booth brings air into the booth in the same same way as the semi-downdraft, but the air is exhausted on both sides of the spray booth.

The advantage of these two models of spray booths is reduced costs, as no concrete work or raised platform is required. These booths can usually be purchased as heated or non-heat models. The heated model is usually available with a forced dry option. Additional options available are:

-Drive thru
-Extended length
-Lighting upgrade

Some shops also use them for painting components like hoods, decks and doors, reserving their larger downdraft booths for complete paint jobs. Many manufacturers can upgrade the non-heated versions of these spray booths at a later date if your production needs require more vehicles later. Again, knowing your production requirements will help you choose the proper equipment.



This Pyramid booth uses simple crossdraft airflow to move overspray into capture filters.

Crossdraft Spray Booths are the oldest booth style still being produced. They've been around for decades. The crossdraft booth moves air horizontally from one end of the booth to the other. While these booths can give you a ventilated and well-lit workplace, they don't do as well when it comes to keeping dust and dirt out of new paint jobs.

Paint Mix Rooms

In-house paint mixing systems offer many benefits including:

1. Waste reduction. You mix only the amount of paint you need.
2. Time savings. Your paint is ready when you need it.
3. Versatility. You can match thousands of factory colors.

Paint mixing machines come in many different sizes. You will also need digital scale, label printers, computer, and quart and gallon agitators. Your paint supplier will help you choose the right equipment for your application.

Paint mix systems must be installed in a clean, well-ventilated room. You should put your mixing machine and accessories in a pre-engineered paint mix room. A typical paint mix room is constructed of sheet-metal panels much like those used in spray booths. It should have color-corrected artificial lighting and downdraft ventilation. Paint mix rooms are generally located next to the spray booth to maximize painter productivity. Your local jurisdiction will probably have codes regulating your paint mix room size, proximity of paint mix room door to the spray booth door and ventilation requirements. Several suppliers, including Global Finishing Solutions, offer vestibule kits to enclose this area.

Some manufacturers offer exhaust-only models, while other manufacturers may have both input and exhaust blowers. The input blower will pressurize the paint mix room to push airborne dust away from the door when it is opened. This option will help maintain a cleaner mix room environment and cleaner vehicle paint work.

[b]Lifts YOKI Brand Auto Lift[/b]

You need lifts in a productive collision shop for three reasons:

1. Increased production. Studies show that productivity increases of 20% can be realized by using lifts.
2. Higher quality work. Workers can see and repair all the problems on the vehicle.
3. Workers don't get tired. The worker is able to stand or sit on a seat, not kneeling or lying on the floor.

Where do you need lifts? At prep stations and in the spray booth, in addition to the metal working department.

Lifts are especially useful in spray booths to help the painter get a quality finish on the lower surfaces of the car. Electrical lifts should not be used in spray booths or prep stations unless they are equipped with explosion-proof motors. And the solvents used in many paints may attack the seals used in hydraulic lifts. So Global Finishing Solutions believes pneumatic lifts are the best choice for spray booths or prep stations. Global Finishing Solutions offers lifts which are easily installed in either location.

Lifts are also very useful in the estimating area. A small pneumatic, hydraulic or electric lift is all that's needed. But it will give both salesmen / estimators and customers a complete view of the vehicle. You can also put one in the detailing are for customer convenience in checking out his or her finished vehicle (or perform this last service in the estimating area).

In the metal repair area, you should consider lifts that raise one part of the car higher than the other. These are available in a variety of styles, lift capacities and power sources. And there are a number of good manufacturers. So once again, we recommend you talk to several before choosing the lifts for your shop.

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Boy2boy:
where's ur locatn?

Location in Guangzhou city,China,30mins from Baiyun International Airport,welcome u to visit our factory any time!

Beat Nigeria spray booth Manufacturer for more than 16years,welcome to visit our factory in Guangzhou,Jiangsu,Beijing,China,

your inquiry is quite appreciated!if need more info,feel free to contact Ms Cherry Tseng
Email:spraybooth@msn.cn, H/P:+86 13066349312, Skype:yoki-spraybooth