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Faurecia
Technology Center India
June 21, 2012 Pune (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................................... 4
Major Activities in the new Faurecia TechCenter
Training and Development
Faurecia in India.............................................................. 8
Overview & key figures
Sourcing, preserving and developing talent
Corporate & Social Responsibility
Faurecia Group................................................................ 10
Faurecia - Faurecia in Asia
Faurecia Interior Systems
Faurecia Automotive Seating
Faurecia Automotive Exteriors
Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies
Faurecia Group: R&D and Engineering........................... 14
R&D and Innovation
Engineering & Program Management
Faurecia India customers................................................ 17
Product exhibition............................................................ 18
Media contacts................................................................. 20
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
India
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.
Faurecia TechCenter • Pune
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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
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
The New Pune TechCenter
Located 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 fullyintegrated 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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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.
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 preproduction 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.
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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 domainsthis 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.
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
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
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 in India
A new growth market
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:
Plants
Faurecia Emissions Control
Technologies: Bangalore, Chennai (2),
Pune, Sanand,
Faurecia Automotive Seating:
Pune (frames), Manesar (mechanisms),
Bangalore (frames),
Faurecia Interior Systems: Chennai.
TechCenters
Pune
Interior Systems, Automotive
Seating, Automotive Exteriors
Bangalore
Emissions Control Technologies.
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).
Manesar
Sanand
Pune
Chennai
Bangalore
plant
R&D center
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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.
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;
education
to
the
• Sponsoring
underprivileged (Lila “Leading Indian
Ladies Ahead” Poonawalla Foundation);
• Blood donation camps;
• Tree plantations;
• Conserving fuel energy through cycle
rallies.
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Faurecia Group
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.
Global growth through technology
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.
Faurecia in Asia
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 in Asia
China
India
Japan
South Korea
Thailand
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.
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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 tailormade 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 (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.
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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.
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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.
(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.
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.
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Faurecia Group
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.
R&D and Engineering
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.
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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.
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.
• Globalization of vehicle platforms;
• Increased popularity of platform
components;
• Production technology standardization;
• Standardization adds value;
• Global resources and local service.
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Engineering & Program
management
This new approach involves the foregoing
elements plus:
• system audits of the program deliverables
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.
Engineering
As 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.
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.
Project management
Vehicle application programs follow a unique
process, bringing together all the participants
needed to develop and launch a new, massproduced 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.
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Faurecia India customers
per Business Group
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Product exhibition
Interior Systems
Audi Q3
instrument panel
Mercedes-Benz SLK
instrument panel
Mercedes-Benz SL
instrument panel
Opel Zafira
instrument panel
Volkswagen New Beetle
instrument panel
Volkswagen up!
instrument panel
MINI
front seats
Volkswagen up!
seat frame
Automotive Seating
Audi A8
seats
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Product exhibition
Automotive Exteriors
Audi A6
front-end module
Citroën DS5
front bumper
Emissions Control Technologies
Tata Nano
cold end
Offset spun & regular spun
converters
Oval lock seam
muffler
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Media contacts
Faurecia
Olivier Le Friec
Head of Media relations
+33 1 72 36 72 58
+33 6 76 87 30 17
olivier.lefriec@faurecia.com
Perfect relations (India) for Faurecia
Padma Venkatraman
Branch Director Pune
+91 20 26 34 11 16
+91 86005 18030
pvenkatraman@perfectrelations.com
www.faurecia.com/pressroom
Faurecia 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.
Photo credits: Shraddha Kadakia, Stefan Meyer, Laurent Zylberman, photothèque Faurecia,
Audi, Citroën, Daimler, MINI, Opel, Volkswagen
Faurecia Group Communications 06/2012
About Faurecia
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