Johnson Controls

Johnson Controls - The Georgetown Plant The Georgetown Plant of Johnson Controls manufactured automobile seats for the Toyota automobile manufacture. Johnson Controls was organized in four groups: Controls, Automotive, Plastic, Batteries. As the world's largest supplier of automotive seating systems, Johnson prided itself on the flexibility of operations. Adopting Japanese philosophies of kaizen, Operations have been constantly improving yielding over $1 million in savings. With the addition of robots and process changes, Johnson has also been …

…Georgetown, Kentucky and therefore it would only make sense to utilize the new plant for this purpose. Johnson Controls should continue to run its operations through the old plant. Operations such as Head Rests and Trim Covers should be moved also to the new plant. This will allow additional space in the Georgetown plant for increased production. These additional capabilities will mean greater sales for Johnson since sales will not be outsourced to meet demand.