SUPERCHARGE YOUR BUSINESS

As the UK’s leading battery management solutions provider for commercial, PSV, fleet, and independent automotive customers, Rotronics develops highly effective battery testing and charging solutions that reduce unnecessary battery spend and improve warranty performance.

The experienced team at Rotronics works closely with a broad customer base, including businesses such as the RAC, AA, Royal Mail, Stagecoach, and Arriva, optimising battery performance, reducing battery costs, improving customer service, and boosting sales revenue prospects.

We work alongside customers to develop uncomplicated, successful electrical system and battery testing and charging processes that easily integrate into daily workshop practices.

A full suite of services

Rotronics customers can extend their vehicles’ battery life using accurate diagnostic and positive battery maintenance, pre-empting fleet failures before they can impact business. The experienced Rotronics Service and Repair Centre can handle a broad variety of battery tester and charger examinations and repairs, as well as conduct calibration and warranty work.

A partner of Midtronics and CTEK, Rotronics has a long and illustrious history, having become a division of Rozone Ltd in 2007, part of the Rubery Owen Group. Rubery Owen RO was a founding member of the automotive industry supply chain, leading innovations in automotive component technology from the early days of the motor car.

The ROBIS system

The managing director of Rotronics, Ken Clark, has over 30 years’ experience in the automotive industry, with the last 16 years specialising in battery management. He started his career with Unipart before moving to the RAC’s technical team and then on to Rotronics.

Ken developed the industryfirst diagnostic battery-testing information portal, ROBIS, a web-based dashboard and reporting system. The portal receives data from Rotronics customer battery testers in national and regional workshops, then presents it in filterable reports, enabling you to analyse battery data quickly and easily. The portal now hosts over 5.4 million test results, allowing the Rotronics team to support its users by remaining highly proactive and informed on how their teams are managing and maintaining batteries in the workshop environment.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ROTRONICS BATTERY MANAGEMENT PROGRAMMES, CALL KEN CLARK ON 0121 514 0605 OR EMAIL INFO@ROTRONICSBMS.COM

Gaining and retaining good staff is one of the biggest challenges in the automotive sector, and a more proactive approach to wellbeing could really help.

Mental health and wellbeing has risen to new heights on business agendas over the last few years, yet a lack of support in times of need is often cited as a key reason for leaving an employer. This not only causes the loss of good staff, but can make a real impact on the reputation of a company.

Automotive businesses are set up as diagnostic and fix-it operations – we work out what’s wrong with a vehicle and fix the problem. With mental health and wellbeing, that’s not so easy as the issues are complex and unique to each individual.

The other spanner in the works is we’re still a male-dominated sector and, on average, men tend not to talk about how they are feeling. The pandemic has also brought to light a large amount of evidence that many people are affected by mental health issues (not illness – that’s very different).

As a business owner, if colleagues aren’t coming to you and saying that they’re struggling then it’s easy to ignore the possible impacts of mental health and wellbeing. Let’s be honest, navigating a business is challenging enough. But before you park it as ‘not a problem’, take a look at the following stats: