Stacey Phillips Ronak

Blog by Stacey Phillips Ronak

Like any organization, the Collision Industry Electronic Commerce Association (CIECA) has evolved over the years. Since CIECA was established in 1994, the primary objective has remained the same: to develop and publish data standards to help the collision industry be more efficient.

 

It’s an exc...

12-22-2021 10:46 AM - Comment(s)

 

Several CIECA Board of Trustees member companies named new representatives to sit on the board in 2022.

 

“We welcome all of the new representatives to CIECA’s Board of Trustees,” said Paul Barry, CIECA’s executive director. “Their diverse backgrounds will enable them to best support CIECA’...

12-21-2021 01:50 PM - Comment(s)

Reed Appraisers joined CIECA as a Corporate Member. Established in 1986, the company has four full-time employees and primarily focuses on insurance settlement/vehicle fair market valuation disputes, as well as provides damage appraisals and repair estimates.


Michael Wigmore, president of Reed Apprai...

12-16-2021 10:13 AM - Comment(s)

Car ADAS Solutions has joined CIECA as a Corporate member. Founded in 2020, Car ADAS Solutions is a new technology and services business. The company’s mission is to make the world a safer place to drive by certifying that vehicle safety systems operate as engineered.

 

“We do this through partne...

12-02-2021 11:44 AM - Comment(s)

The next CIECAST webinar is scheduled for Tuesday, December 7th at 11 am PST/1 pm CST/ 2 pm EST: “ADAS Trends: Implications for the Future of Diagnostics & Calibrations.” The webinar will feature Tony Rimas, president of Repairify, and Nick Dominato, Repairify’s senior vice president of product.


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11-11-2021 02:26 PM - Comment(s)

Rivian joined CIECA as a Corporate member. Founded in 2009, Rivian is privately held and employs 6,000+ employees globally. The company has developed and vertically integrated a connected electric platform that can be applied to a range of applications, including the company’s Adventure Network and ...

11-09-2021 03:43 PM - Comment(s)
Following CIECA’s creation of the collision industry’s original data standard—the Estimate Management Standard (EMS) in 1994—the organization worked toward establishing the Business Message Suite (BMS). BMS was designed to support electronic commerce across the collision industry ecosystem and inclu...
10-01-2021 04:42 PM - Comment(s)
The Independent Auto Damage Appraisers Association (IADA) joined CIECA as a Corporate member. IADA is a nonprofit trade association for auto damage appraisers. Founded in 1947, the association is dedicated to supporting the independent appraiser profession and promoting skills, education, ethics and...
09-23-2021 02:57 PM - Comment(s)
Kustomine joined CIECA as a corporate member. Established in 2020, Kustomine is a cloud-based software start-up company that provides a paperless customer experience.  

“We created Kustomine to reduce environmental impact, save time and money and provide clean data into the tools shops use to ru...
08-19-2021 03:17 PM - Comment(s)
During the early years of CIECA, members created the Estimate Management Standard (EMS), CIECA’s original data standard. It was the first electronic communication standard designed by the organization and implemented throughout the industry in 1994.

Since then, the organization established ...
06-29-2021 04:38 PM - Comment(s)
Just over a decade ago, asTech®, a Repairify company, was founded to provide automotive diagnostic and vehicle electronic services to professional repair organizations. Based in Plano, Texas, the company employs about 600 people and has a European office in Peterlee, United Kingdom, and a Repairify ...
06-29-2021 04:01 PM - Comment(s)
Wurth USA Inc. joined as a corporate member. Established in 1969, USA is a leading supplier of products and services for the transportation maintenance and repair industry. The company is part of The Group, a global organization operating in more than 80 countries worldwide.

“CIECA is well-known w...
06-23-2021 03:19 PM - Comment(s)
Auto Web Tuners joined as a corporate member. The company provides digital marketing and technical SEO services to automotive businesses, helping them become a brand in the search engines and the local community. 

Established by Don and Diane Miller in January 2010 as Body Shop Nation, the comp...
06-10-2021 03:24 PM - Comment(s)
On the Road Garage has joined CIECA as a corporate member. Established in 2020, On the Road Garage is a tech-focused collision repair business that focuses on electromechanical repair and calibration services for both conventional and electric vehicles while protecting the environment. Together with...
05-25-2021 03:27 PM - Comment(s)
Nexterra Solutions Group (NSG) recently joined CIECA as a Corporate member. NSG focuses on claims management, auto physical damage (APD) assessment and restoration for the insurance and automotive aftermarket communities. Since 1998, NSG has provided stand-alone, concierge and à la carte claims mana...
04-29-2021 03:30 PM - Comment(s)
Retyrn recently became a CIECA member. Established in 2019, Retyrn is a consumer-facing accident reporting company based in Palo Alto, CA. The company recently launched a mobile app called Retyrn that will employ CIECA standards on an upcoming new release of their app. The platform allows consu...
04-13-2021 03:31 PM - Comment(s)
In 2018, Matt and Angi Murray launched Widewail, a reputation management technology and services company located on the shores of Lake Champlain in Burlington, VT. The company focuses on managed services and review generation as part of an organic searc...
03-16-2021 03:54 PM - Comment(s)
Memories from Erick Bickett
Founder of CIECA
CEO and Co-founder of Fix Auto USA and Founder of Auto Center Auto Body

Looking back, the formation of the Collision Industry Electronic Commerce Association (CIECA) in 1994 was tied to a business need for the collision industry. CIECA was formed to address ...
03-09-2021 04:32 PM - Comment(s)
Frank Terlep and a small group of investors launched Auto Techcelerators LLC in September of 2019 to help the auto, collision, glass and truck industries estimate, calibrate and validate Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) repairs. Today, the team of 1...
03-09-2021 04:28 PM - Comment(s)