In today’s fast-paced automotive environment, dealerships face mounting pressure to deliver a seamless customer experience while maximizing operational efficiency.
Traditional overhead doors are often prone to breakdowns due to their mechanical complexity and slower operating speeds. Every time a door breaks down or requires service, it slows down productivity – vehicles get backed up, technicians are forced to wait, and customers face unnecessary delays. The ripple effects are clear: time lost to malfunctioning doors translates directly into lost revenue.
Whether it’s servicing vehicles faster or supercharging sales, the reliable performance and speed of high-performance doors significantly impacts uptime and productivity on showroom floors and in service bays.
Upgrading sectional doors to modern high-speed, high-performance doors delivers a number of benefits, including increased efficiency and uptime.
Productivity and Performance. Older sectional roll-up doors open and close slowly, which means your technicians must wait each time they move a car in or out of the service bays. In a busy car dealership, these doors open and close hundreds of times a day. That adds up to a significant amount of lost productivity for your service technicians.
Even a one-minute wait time, multiplied by 200 times per day, equals over three hours of lost productivity. Multiply that by an average of 250 workdays per year, which translates into over 750 hours lost to slow-moving service bay doors. In contrast, high-speed roll-up doors help busy technicians maintain their workflow, eliminating time-consuming bottlenecks from their busy days.
Speed. Rytec’s high-performance doors open and close significantly faster than conventional doors – often at speeds up to 100 inches per second. This means vehicles can move in and out of service bays with minimal waiting, dramatically increasing throughput. This also reduces the risk of vehicle-door collisions, which can be costly for the door and the vehicle striking it.
Built for Reliability. With advanced materials and engineering, Rytec doors are designed for high-cycle operations, often exceeding one million cycles before major maintenance is required. In contrast, traditional doors might start to degrade after just 10,000 to 50,000 cycles. Fewer breakdowns mean fewer interruptions. And in an environment like an auto dealership, where every minute of uptime counts, this reliability can make all the difference.
For example, Rytec’s Spiral® doors feature a simple, elegant and reliable design trusted by North America’s leading auto dealerships. They’re engineered for high use and low maintenance to ensure reliable uptime to keep your facility and customers moving all day long. Industrial-strength construction and materials make these high-performance doors extremely durable for virtually uninterrupted operation. They’re built to last millions of operating cycles, day in and day out.
Smooth Flow of Traffic. Maintaining the smooth movement of vehicles and people is critical to efficient operations. When a service bay door goes down, traffic must be rerouted through another door, causing bottlenecks and lost productivity. This can lead to decreased productivity of your service technicians, which may result in frustration for both busy customers and dealership management as well.
One of the biggest threats to this flow is vehicle-door collisions. Versatile and durable high-performance doors open and close quickly to reduce the likelihood of these events. For example, Rytec’s SmartSurround® Advanced Detection and Alert System is standard on most Spiral® door models to help avoid these collisions. SmartSurround uses artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced light curtain sensors to assess traffic and movement through and near the doorway. It then uses this data to determine which alerting lights are most appropriate and what movements the door should make to protect vehicles and pedestrians.
In addition, if a collision happens with certain fabric doors, Rytec’s Quick-Set™ Break-Away™ tabs allow the bottom bar to separate from the side columns undamaged. Plus, the door can be reset without tools in just seconds, virtually eliminating door downtime. With these features, high-performance doors keep pedestrian and vehicular traffic moving through your facility.
Less Maintenance and Repairs. As sectional doors age, they require increased maintenance on motors, rollers, springs, tracks and panels. With these challenges, it can be difficult to keep doors properly adjusted and operating smoothly. However, high-speed rolling doors are designed with minimal maintenance in mind. Their energy-efficient motors and self-diagnostic controllers ensure trouble-free, efficient operation for many years to come.
And when it comes to routine maintenance, Rytec doors’ advanced design System 4® controller enables adjustments to door operation to be made at floor level. This ingenious system offers total digital control and self-diagnostics to minimize maintenance surprises.
Enhanced Safety. Some of the most common safety features and systems ensure that people and vehicles are protected as they enter and leave the service department. These can include activation sensors, safety light systems, reversing bottom edges and photo eyes – all of which keep your doors moving reliably and safely.
High-performance doors deliver substantial benefits to automotive dealerships. Faster cycle speeds, reduced maintenance, increased uptime and longer lifespans all add up to significant savings – and increased profitability. By investing in smarter, faster and more durable doors, you can keep your dealership’s showroom floors impressive and service departments running at peak performance.
Let us help you maximize uptime in your dealership with high-performance doors. Contact us today to discuss your dealership’s needs.
