Three industry experts provide a comprehensive lens from a tooling and equipment perspective on what you need to do now, pay attention to, forget about or embrace for the road ahead. We’ll also break down what readiness means, and how tooling and equipment helps shops get ready for the advanced materials and systems in vehicles. The experts weigh in on which of these “readiness attributes” are most important and how they interrelate.

Moderated by Jason Bartanen, I-CAR’s Director of Industry Technical Relations, the following represents an edited highlight of one-on-one Skype interviews; full recordings and transcripts can be found at I-CAR.com/CollisionReporter, along with their bios.