faurecia technology center india

June 21, 2012 Pune (India)

Faurecia Technology Center India

Press kit

Technology innovation lies at the heart of the worldwide automotive market, which is undergoing significant transformations. Passenger vehicles are experiencing fundamental transformations across all segments as they, tomorrow, become cleaner, lighter, more comfortable and more premium. To achieve this (r)evolution, automakers need global partners – such as Faurecia – able to combine their technology leadership and engineering know-how with an organization shaped for the steady development of global automotive markets.

Faurecia, the world’s sixth largest automotive equipment supplier, has these three key assets in its genes. On the one hand, the group boasts a global industrial footprint and organization, present in all key automotive markets, right at the doorstep of the world’s leading car manufacturers. On the other hand, it has deployed a worldwide network of R&D and innovation centers, known as TechCenters, de-facto research and development labs at the very center of its technology strategy.

Nr. 1 worldwide in vehicle interiors, Nr. 3 worldwide for Automotive Seating and Nr. 2 worldwide for Automotive Exteriors, Faurecia is reinforcing its Indian footprint with the creation of the most-advanced TechCenter in the Indian automotive sector.

The center is dedicated to Faurecia worldwide projects, be they off-shore or for India-based automakers. Its activity is centered around three key capabilities: Industrial Design, Computer Aided Design & Engineering (CAD/CAE) and Product and Process Validation (PPV). In other words, Faurecia’s engineering teams work on automotive equipment projects from sketches to concept styling all the way to final pre-serial production and validation enabling smooth start of production, anywhere around the world.

With the new TechCenter located in the north-western outskirts of India’s booming Pune region, home to many renowned automakers such as Fiat, Mahindra, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen, Faurecia further confirms its commitment to the promising Indian automotive market, where the Group first started its R&D and innovation operations in 2004. The new Faurecia TechCenter Pune concentrates the Group’s expertise in the fields of vehicle interior systems, automotive seating and exteriors. Another TechCenter, located in Bangalore, is dedicated to its Emissions Control Technologies activity.

Contents

Faurecia Technology Center India .................................. 4Major Activities in the new Faurecia TechCenter

Training and Development

Faurecia in India ............................................................. 8Overview & key figuresSourcing, preserving and developing talentCorporate & Social Responsibility

Faurecia Group................................................................ 10Faurecia - Faurecia in AsiaFaurecia Interior SystemsFaurecia Automotive SeatingFaurecia Automotive ExteriorsFaurecia Emissions Control Technologies

Faurecia Group: R&D and Engineering .......................... 14R&D and InnovationEngineering & Program Management

Faurecia India customers ............................................... 17

Product exhibition ........................................................... 18

Media contacts ................................................................ 20

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Faurecia Technology Center

Innovation drives each of Faurecia’s core businesses, supported by 5,000 engineers and technicians in 41 R&D centers across the world. Every year, Faurecia increases its footprint in Asia’s markets in India, China and Korea. The Group invests around 5% of its revenues into R&D each year. The fact that India has carved out a niche for itself in the International automotive market with its growing market potential, is reiterated by the fact the today Faurecia employs over 700 engineers in its R&D centers in the country.

The Faurecia TechCenter India has been established in Pune in 2004, currently employs close to 600 people and is expected to grow to 800 people, supports all Faurecia applications serving 23 R&D centers in 19 countries around the world. Over 320 projects have been completed for customers since inception. The TechCenter is 100% integrated by Faurecia and totally autonomous in its development. Teams average some 55,000 working hours on projects per month.

Faurecia’s state-of-the art new R&D center in India is the only R & D center with testing and pilot production facility in India.

Located in the heart of India’s second automobile manufacturing hub northwest of Pune (Maharashtra), this new TechCenter is

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100% integrated in Faurecia and autonomous in its development. It is a fully integrated facility catering to three business groups – namely Interior Systems, Automotive Seating and Automotive Exteriors, in which Faurecia occupies leading market positions worldwide. The engineers use high end software (such as CATIA V5) for designing and supporting the worldwide net of Faurecia and its products.

The important functions within Faurecia Pune are Design, Development, Analysis, Knowledge based engineering, Prototyping and Testing. Home to some 600 engineers and designers, this new center will support all Faurecia applications for 23 R&D centers in 19 countries including both national and international projects.

The new TechCenter has started with the mission of closely working and supporting all program management and manufacturing teams in any regions of the world in their daily activity, standardization of Faurecia Interior Systems manufacturing methodologies and maintain the worldwide database, central department for supply chain and packaging and collaborate with high performing Indian suppliers. Faurecia also performs full program management expertise and associated functions (quality, purchasing, manufacturing…) fully in-line with the Faurecia Excellence System.


The New Pune TechCenterLocated in the heart of India’s 2nd automobile manufacturing hub city Pune, after Chennai, the new Pune TechCenter is strategically located with good connectivity between southern and western India, respectively the developed and developing rapid emerging automobile hubs of India. The center is a fully-integrated facility – from CAD/CAE to PPV activities. It has been designed to modernize and grow to an 800 people engineering TechCenter, which construction started in April 2011. The total is broken down as follows: 4,500 m² for offices and 5,500 m² for Product & Process Validation. An extra 10,000m² is available for later expansion. The Product & Process Validation area includes: pilot plant, geometry and full-range testing. Pilot plant capabilities include: pilot plant equipment intended to support pilot builds of various customers before start of production (SOP) and is not intended for regular production.

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involved in global vehicle platforms for automakers and is addressing two key issues when leading such projects. First, familiarize with regulatory requirements in different markets where a particular model will be launched. Faurecia achieves this by investigating in detail all the markets and understand the regulatory and other statutory standards that are applicable and assess their implications as a supplier. Second, Faurecia works in close coordination with customers regarding their plans for a particular platform and its potential market.

CAD – Computer Aided Design CAE – Computer Aided Engineering

Faurecia employs an extensive team of trained engineers who are involved with CAE and CAD of Instrument Panels, glove boxes, door panel and center consoles at this R&D center. High end software (such as CATIA V5, Alias Surface, Photoshop CS5, Autodesk...) is used for modelling, meshing and simulation, mold-flow analysis, static and dynamic crash and impact testing for all the three functions. With efficient and constant communication via global meetings and colleagues spread across

Major Activities in the new Faurecia TechCenter

The major activities that the new TechCenter carries out are Design, Development and Product & Process Validation (PPV) for automotive clients, based in India and abroad. The center caters to design and assembly of products, tool and fixture design, testing and geometry checks on the prototype automotive parts and finally validating it for production. Parts developed cover the three business groups established in Pune:

instrument & door panels, center consoles, glove boxes; related mechanisms (air vent, armrest, storage box…);seat frames and complete seats;complete front-end modules.

Development carried out in Pune covers the full range of capabilities: concept and feasibility analysis, prototype tool & parts manufacturing, development of production tools, full-set of testing & validation incl. manufacturing engineering.

The Pune TechCenter has evolved from an offshore CAD/CAE based outpost in India to a full-fledged R&D center. Consequently, Faurecia is looking to specialize the center and emerge as a center of excellence within Faurecia for door panels, glove boxes and center consoles for the base version. Faurecia is ever more

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An example of a project, fully-managed by the Faurecia new Pune TechCenter, is the glove-box of the new Peugeot 208, which has been managed from CAD/CAE to pre-production testing and validation. The vehicle has been launched on the European market during the first quarter of 2012.

For the future, Faurecia is looking at a deeper engagement with automakers in India, as they clearly want to offer more aesthetically appealing vehicles, particularly vehicle interiors, for customers in India. This necessarily involves closer interaction between Faurecia and automakers here, so Faurecia can work hand in hand with them to meet their quality and cost targets. This step will enable the Faurecia TechCenter to be much more self-sufficient in terms of providing solutions such as developing tools and processes for customers with minimal support from outside India.

Training and Development

Our focus has always been to increase efficiency by attracting the right talent with the required skill set and have focus on long term employment thereby keeping a very low attrition rate. Faurecia has an extensive training module to groom fresh engineers. Technical Training is a key component of inducting and growing employees within Faurecia. The India Engineering Academy (IEA) has been designed to impart various kinds of Faurecia Methodologies & trainings- focusing on the basics to the more advanced systems and processes.

the world Faurecia India has been a key center for most of its programs. CAD software is majorly used in the creation, modification, analysis and optimization of auto component design.

PPV – Product & Process Validation

Once the designing and CAE analysis is done, the Complete Product package is sent to the PPV section, which stands for Product & Process Validation. The process includes complete prototyping, analysis, measurement and eventual development of tools and gauges.

The PPV majorly includes three key activities/sections:

Pilot plant: the pilot plant has processes like manual US welding, vibration welding, manual assembly, mock-up and rework, inspection and Faurecia Excellence Systems (FES) and Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) compliance.Geometry: Geometry includes conformal mapping method (CMM), FaroArm and touch-less scanning system. In this process, complete geometrical analysis and measurement of the product is carried out.

Full-range testing: Testing happens at various levels right from testing the raw material to testing of performance and system.

Testing is conducted to validate various parameters, such as:

Safety & Regulation Laboratory (Airbag and Head Impact);Environmental and Climatic Testing;Structural and Rigidity Testing;Endurance and Durability Testing;Functional and Performance Testing.


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Some of the key objectives of the training held at the IEA are as follows:

Develop & Build trainings and trainers

Faurecia follows very precise and dedicated methodologies specific to its domains- this translates to a need for keeping pace with the trainings to be deployed and developed on a regular basis. Without these methodologies it would be rather difficult for an engineer to cater to the specifications shared by their customers. To encourage this transfer of knowledge to the engineers in India, Faurecia has developed the IEA. A team of trainers contributes to the IEA trainers’ pool with specific Key Performance Indicators on Faurecia’s methodologies which in-turn help technical managers in imparting this knowledge to the next level in a cascading manner.

Deployment of technical trainings

The core objective of IEA is the deployment of technical expertise in the form of trainings to their engineers. These training courses, specific to the needs of Faurecia, are not commonly available in the Indian market which makes it even more important for IEA trainers to act as key players in the deployment of these technical trainings.

Initiate and Support knowledge sharing / Encourage lessons learnt

Each one at Faurecia is encouraged to learn from their mistakes since it is imperative for their growth. One of the major “Organizational Development” initiatives driven by Faurecia is ‘Lessons Learnt’. The process is quite simple “where one is encouraged to find a solution to the problem” driven by learning & discovering

through the “root cause” analysis. The final objective is to set-up a practice where employees do not make the same mistake twice, with the main objective to implement a self-corrective behavior.

Develop and conduct the GET

All new recruits go through a unique training program called Graduate Trainee Engineer program (GET). The unique

success indicator for this program has been “Effective Campus Recruitment”, “Comprehensive Training Program” and “Employee Engagement”, which in turn develops these young graduates into successful professionals at Faurecia.

The GET Training majorly includes the following categories: software training, domain training (for component and assembly design of Interior, Exterior and Seating systems), soft-skills training, business communication & interpersonal skills training, “on-the-job” training and mentoring.


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Faurecia has five Emissions Control Technologies plants in the country that supply exhaust systems to automakers operating in the region (Cummins, Ford, Hyundai, Nissan, Tata and Toyota).

Faurecia Automotive Seating currently maintains three production sites whose output includes seat mechanisms for Maruti-Suzuki, Škoda and Volkswagen as well as seat frames for Škoda and Volkswagen.

In 2011, Faurecia Interior Systems took possession of its first Indian plant in Chennai, where it will soon launch production of instrument panels, door panels and center consoles for Ford of India.

Faurecia Automotive Exteriors, operating from the brand new TechCenter in Pune, provides upstream expertise in CAD/CAE.

The Group is significantly expanding its local R&D resources: the Emissions Control Technologies business group is currently expanding its R&D center in Bangalore, while Interior Systems has opened its new TechCenter in June 2012 spanning 10,000 square meters, nearly half devoted to product and process validation (prototypes, testing, geometry).

Overview & key figures

Faurecia has established its business operations in India in 1995 (as Arvin Exhaust in Nasik), and currently employs 1,600 people, of which 700 engineers, where it plans to multiply its sales by four between 2011 and 2015. Faurecia currently operates nine manufacturing plants and two TechCenters (at end 2012), as follows:

PlantsFaurecia Emissions Control Technologies: Bangalore, Chennai (2), Pune, Sanand,Faurecia Automotive Seating: Pune (frames), Manesar (mechanisms), Bangalore (frames),Faurecia Interior Systems: Chennai.

TechCentersPuneInterior Systems, Automotive Seating, Automotive ExteriorsBangaloreEmissions Control Technologies.

Faurecia in India A new growth market


Corporate & Social Responsibility: local developmental initiatives

Faurecia India believes that its technical and commercial expertise entails a moral duty to contribute to sustainable social development. We are committed to conserving natural resources, adhering to safety norms and minimizing environment impact while conducting its activities. We also believe that we must play an active role in addressing social issues and therefore our activities around our sites and in general, aim at social development, keeping in mind our corporate culture and philosophy.

Some activities quietly bringing a smile on the faces of the deserving yet unfortunate strata of the society are listed hereunder:

Donation and distribution of useful materials to orphanage and old age homes;Sponsoring education to the underprivileged (Lila “Leading Indian Ladies Ahead” Poonawalla Foundation);Blood donation camps;Tree plantations;Conserving fuel energy through cycle rallies.

Eventually the site will be home to some 800 engineers. As a result, Interior Systems will have a full range of R&D expertise at its command for use in developing products for the Indian market while also lending support to international operations and global programs and platforms.

Sourcing, preserving and developing talent

Faurecia India’s growth story has been possible because of the fresh talent that flows in from the country’s top engineering campuses. The senior management believes in transforming fresh graduate engineers into future leaders by making them go through the crucible of continuous training and challenging assignments. The belief is strengthened by the fact that most of the business leaders in Faurecia have joined as trainees and have grown up the ladder. The scenario for the future is very positive with businesses growing at a steady pace. The demand for fresh talent is on the increase and we are looking for bright engineering talent to partner us in this growth story.


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and reliability. On the strength of these assets, Faurecia is now poised to move ahead with a profitable growth strategy targeting sales of €20 billion by 2015, with nearly half its sales coming from outside Europe.

Our unrelenting passion for automobiles is reflected in our ongoing quest for technological perfection. Faurecia specializes in designing, developing, manufacturing and delivering equipment in four key areas of the automotive industry: Automotive Seating, Emissions Control Technologies, Interior Systems and Automotive Exteriors.

With operations in 33 countries, the Group is a global player in the industry, working closely with automakers worldwide in line with their global platform strategies.

Boasting 41 R&D centers and 5,000 engineers and technicians located throughout the world’s major regions for automobile production, we offer innovative product and process solutions that are instrumental in ensuring the safety, reliability, comfort, appeal and respect for the environment that characterize our customers’ vehicles.

The common foundation for all 84,000 Faurecia employees is the Faurecia Excellence System, which guarantees the highest standards in operational performance and customer service at our 270 sites around the world.In 2011, Faurecia’s growth bested the market across every Business Group and geographic region, and a record number of new contracts — a testament to the confidence the Group has won from automakers thanks to its global presence

Faurecia Group Global growth through technology

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Faurecia in Asia

As a priority region for Faurecia’s expansion, Asia accounted for nearly 11% of the Group’s total sales in 2011, up 16% from the previous year.

Within the frame of its 2015 strategic plan, Faurecia is aiming at more than doubling its Asian business (over 2011 sales) with total sales expected to grow from €1.5 billion to € 4 billion by 2015.

Asia share of total sales is forecast to jump from 9 to 17% from 2011 to 2015.


Faurecia Interior Systems

The world’s Nr. 1 supplier of vehicle interiors, Faurecia Interior Systems (FIS) operates an international network of manufacturing and R&D sites that provide valuable assistance to automakers in developing global programs and platforms. Faurecia is developing instrument panels, center consoles, door panels, door modules and acoustic solutions for vehicles of all kinds. The Group also supplies turnkey cockpits from its just-in-time assembly plants. Faurecia’s know-how yields tailor-made solutions for automakers seeking to ensure the safety, comfort, perceived quality and lighter weight of their vehicles. Faurecia has also won recognition as one of Europe’s premier suppliers of acoustic modules.

Innovation is the cornerstone of the work carried out at Faurecia Interior Systems. It’s a critical tool for responding to customer requests and devising new solutions for meeting consumer and market expectations. The company maintains a global network of engineers who focus exclusively on innovation. Based at eight different R&D sites, they identify and analyze market trends and transform the latest concepts into innovative products that offer added value for the consumer. They focus special attention on customizable features, the use of authentic materials, comfort — including noise reduction — and solutions that use lightweight, eco-friendly products. The innovation process is tightly structured, with five benchmarks, to ensure that only the most promising products are selected, so as to offer a customized solution that is tailored to each customer’s needs.

Faurecia Automotive Seating

Faurecia Automotive Seating (FAS) is the world’s largest supplier of seat mechanisms and frames and the third largest supplier of complete seat systems. Specializing in the architecture of seating, Faurecia is an expert at designing and manufacturing every seat component: frames, tracks, adjustment mechanisms, foam and covers. Faurecia seamlessly assembles the different components to create a complete seat and guarantees just-in-time delivery to its customers’ plants.

Accounting for 5% of a vehicle’s total cost, seating is the second largest expense for automakers, after the engine. It makes up nearly 6% of a vehicle’s total weight. The challenge lies in standardizing the non-visible components (i.e. the metal frame) while devising a distinctive design for the complete seat that is visible to the end user, all while enhancing the safety, comfort and benefits provided to customers.

Faurecia Automotive Seating boasts expertise in the full range of critical technology used in automotive seating, operating a global manufacturing and R&D network (2,000 engineers and technicians, including 350 devoted solely to innovation, operating in 18 R&D centers) to serve its customers in each of their markets.


Three factors have proven key to ensuring the success of Faurecia seat frames: expertise in global platforms, weight reduction (via hybrid metal/composite solutions), and mechatronics (used to provide electronically operated advanced functions). In the market for complete seat systems, the ability to provide just-in-time delivery and the added value offered by advanced features (pneumatic systems, climate control and electronic seat management) drive the innovation process.

To stay abreast of market trends, Faurecia Automotive Seating is gradually shifting the geographical distribution of its operations. By 2015, 50% of its business will come from Europe, 25% from Asia and 25% from North and South America. Asia, and especially China, offers the greatest potential for growth, as Faurecia continues to lend support to international customers and expands opportunities with Chinese automakers.

Faurecia Automotive Exteriors

Faurecia is Europe’s top provider of exterior automotive equipment, holding 28% of the market for automotive bumpers, and is ranked second worldwide. Today, the Business Group is seeing steady growth at the international level. Faurecia Automotive Exteriors offers a diversified range of body parts and modules made from plastic and composite materials. As the needs of automakers become steadily more complex, Faurecia is developing a modular strategy (front ends, bumpers, shock absorber systems) designed to provide functional integration, weight reduction, quality management, shorter assembly times and lower costs.

After focusing for many years on Europe, Faurecia Automotive Exteriors is accelerating its move into other world markets, primarily China and North and South America. The company’s goal is to obtain 20% of its sales outside Europe by 2014.



Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies

Following its acquisition of EMCON Technologies in 2010, Faurecia has become the world leader in emissions control technologies for every sector of the automotive industry, from passenger cars to commercial and heavy vehicles. One in four vehicles worldwide now has a Faurecia exhaust system. Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies (FECT) designs, develops, manufactures and assembles every aspect of the exhaust system, from manifolds to mufflers. At a time of increasingly stringent emissions regulatory requirements in automotive markets the world over, Faurecia is developing the technology of the future for reducing pollutant emissions from both gasoline and diesel engines, for passenger and commercial vehicles alike.

Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies has developed a range of emissions control processes for the diesel and gasoline engines of tomorrow, in order to comply with increasingly strict regulatory requirements. Moreover, to address the pressing need to reduce both carbon dioxide emissions and fuel consumption, the Group is developing innovative exhaust heat recovery systems and pioneering technology that reduces the weight of the exhaust system by optimizing the system architecture and using new materials. The strategic partnership for pollution control systems with Cummins Emissions Solutions, the world’s top provider of diesel engines for commercial vehicles, has enhanced the Group’s presence in the market.


R&D and Innovation

Research and Development (R&D) represents a strategic challenge for Faurecia. It is the starting point for the Group’s innovative product and process creations and for future customer applications. R&D activities are structured around two main divisions:

the Research and Innovation Unit,which covers upstream activities prior to program acquisitions. This Unit is critical to enabling the Group to provide an appealing and competitive offering to its customers, which it achieves by designing new products and processes, proposing innovative solutions and developing generic products and processes;

the Program Engineering Unit,which covers customer specific vehicle programs. It is a downstream unit responsible for ensuring that programs are completed within the set timeframes and in compliance with the required cost and quality levels.

R&D accounted for 5% of sales in 2011. €100 million alone was spent on innovation over the same period. 5,000 engineers and technicians based at 41 centers across the globe represent the Group’s R&D community, which filed 300 patents in 2011.

Technological development and innovation are key priorities for Faurecia. Technological development continued to accelerate in 2011, supported by a strong focus on academia. Faurecia signed strategic partnership agreements with universities in the form of contracts or chairs as well as investing in technological research institutes.

Our unrelenting passion for automobiles is reflected in our ongoing quest for technological perfection.

Faurecia specializes in designing, developing, manufacturing and delivering equipment in four key areas of the automotive industry: Automotive Seating, Emissions Control Technologies, Interior Systems and Automotive Exteriors.

With operations in 33 countries, the Group is a global player in the industry, working closely with automakers worldwide in line with their global platform strategies.

Boasting 41 R&D centers and 5,000 engineers and technicians located throughout the world’s major regions for automobile production, we offer innovative product and process solutions that are instrumental in ensuring the safety, reliability, comfort, appeal and respect for the environment that characterize our customers’ vehicles.

The common foundation for all 84,000 Faurecia employees is the Faurecia Excellence System, which guarantees the highest standards in operational performance and customer service at our 270 industrial sites around the world.

Faurecia Group R&D and Engineering


Faurecia also deployed its skills management policy by means of an ambitious plan with rigorous monitoring requirements. 272 experts are now skilled in 20 categories of expertise within the Group’s 60 different areas of expertise. Skills’ sharing, wherever relevant, ensures optimal use of such expertise. The Company is forecasting this community of experts to be expanded to include more than 400 experts by 2015.

The General Management of the Company is committed to technology and innovation, believing these to be key drivers of its on-going and future success.

The acceleration in model and platform globalization has made the standardized solutions offered by Faurecia increasingly attractive. Deployed throughout the production and development process, this approach optimizes costs and reduces lead times.

Globalization of vehicle platforms;Increased popularity of platform components;Production technology standardization;Standardization adds value;Global resources and local service.

In order to meet the needs of this global configuration, Faurecia has put specific development structures in place:

skills centers bring together development resources from each of the platform product lines;client development centers nearest the carmakers, responsible for specific applications;shared resources platforms capable of making design and calculation workloads for all applications more flexible.

In 2011, investment in innovation continued and was focused on areas that are key to the Company’s competitiveness such as environmental performance, product attractiveness, the system approach and the optimization of manufacturing processes, including the logistics which have consolidated Faurecia’s leadership in its quest for excellence.The activities of Faurecia’s R&D and Innovation teams are centered on eight key areas: weight reduction, size reduction, pollution reduction, increased energy efficiency, standardization, customization, materials development and finally control and innovation in manufacturing processes.

In 2011, the Group’s continuous innovation work resulted in filing 300 new patents. Higher than in previous years, this number demonstrates Faurecia’s commitment to innovation, despite heavy economic constraints. It should also be noted that these patents pertain to products, materials, and manufacturing processes, demonstrating the efforts made by Faurecia to optimize the entire product value chain.


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Engineering & Program management

Carrying out vehicle innovation and application projects calls for an engineering organization and program that are highly reliable and effective. Faurecia is organized in a way that meets both these requirements.

EngineeringAs of today, Faurecia operates 41 R&D Centers around the world. Each business group’s Research and Development is spread across our three main geographic areas — Europe, the Americas and Asia. It is managed as a separate entity and possesses all the resources necessary to carry out the projects which it is assigned. Since it is structured as a network, it can run worldwide programs and commit as many of its resources as are needed through its worldwide workforce, or commit the right quality of resources needed through its roster of experts, particularly for vehicle innovation or application projects.

Project management Vehicle application programs follow a unique process, bringing together all the participants needed to develop and launch a new, mass-produced product. This process, known as PMS (Program Management System), describes all the deliverables to be produced at each phase of the program. Every program is given periodic interim reviews, first by specialists and then at the close of each phase by management, so that its progress can be seen. The PMS includes five phases: obtain and validate customer needs, develop the product, test the product and develop the manufacturing process, plan and validate productive machinery, and increase line speeds and launch mass production. To track performance throughout the development process and steer it towards excellence, Faurecia has introduced the idea of program management excellence.

This new approach involves the foregoing elements plus:

system audits of the program deliverables to ensure the consistency of applications;and performance indicators, reviewed monthly, to signal future risks.

These various tools have made it possible to significantly improve such programs’ performance in terms of quality, schedule and mass production launch. At the end of 2011, 538 programs run by 320 Program Managers were under development. Some are of global scale, from initial drawings to final manufacture.

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Faurecia India customers per Business Group

Product exhibition


Interior Systems

Automotive Seating

Audi Q3instrument panel

MINIfront seats

Audi A8 seats

Volkswagen up!seat frame

Mercedes-Benz SLK instrument panel

Mercedes-Benz SLinstrument panel

Opel Zafirainstrument panel

Volkswagen New Beetleinstrument panel

Volkswagen up!instrument panel

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Automotive Exteriors

Emissions Control Technologies

Audi A6front-end module

Citroën DS5front bumper

Tata Nanocold end

Offset spun & regular spunconverters

Oval lock seam muffler

Photo credits: Shraddha Kadakia, Stefan Meyer, Laurent Zylberman, photothèque Faurecia, Audi, Citroën, Daimler, MINI, Opel, Volkswagen

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Media contacts

FaureciaOlivier Le FriecHead of Media relations

+33 1 72 36 72 58+33 6 76 87 30 [email protected]

www.faurecia.com/pressroom

Perfect relations (India) for FaureciaPadma VenkatramanBranch Director Pune

+91 20 26 34 11 16+91 86005 [email protected]

About FaureciaFaurecia is the world’s sixth-largest automotive equipment supplier with four key Business Groups: Automotive Seating, Emissions Control Technologies, Interior Systems and Automotive Exteriors. In 2011, the Group posted total sales of €16.2 billion. At December 31, 2011, Faurecia employed 84,000 people in 33 countries at 270 sites and 41 R&D centers. Faurecia is listed on the NYSE Euronext Paris stock exchange. For more information, visit: www.faurecia.com.

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