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Johnson Controls, Inc. is a company, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. It was founded in 1885 by professor Warren S. Johnson, inventor of the first electric room thermostat.
It is a Fortune 500 diversified, multi-industrial company with 140,000 employees in 1,300 locations across six continents. It has achieved consistent growth that includes 61 consecutive years of increased sales, 17 consecutive years of increased earnings, and 33 consecutive years of dividends increases.
Automotive experience
Global leader in interior systems for light vehicles including passenger cars and light trucks.
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Johnson Controls, Inc. is a company, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. It was founded in 1885 by professor Warren S. Johnson, inventor of the first electric room thermostat.
It is a Fortune 500 diversified, multi-industrial company with 140,000 employees in 1,300 locations across six continents. It has achieved consistent growth that includes 61 consecutive years of increased sales, 17 consecutive years of increased earnings, and 33 consecutive years of dividends increases.
Business Units
Johnson Controls operates three business units: Automotive Experience, Building Efficiency and Power Solutions.
Automotive experience
Global leader in interior systems for light vehicles including passenger cars and light trucks. Systems supplied include seating, overhead, door, instrument panels, storage, electronics.
Building efficiency
Leading full-line service provider of mechanical equipment as well as systems that controlheating, ventilating, air conditioning (HVAC), lighting, security and fire management in non-residential buildings. Services include complete mechanical and electrical maintenance. World leader in integrated facility management for Fortune 500 companies, managing more than one billion square feet worldwide.
Power solutions
World’s largest manufacturer of lead acid automotive batteries and developer of advanced battery chemistries. About 80% of batteries are sold through the automotive aftermarket and 20% are sold as original equipment.
History
A History of Exceeding Expectations
It started with innovation.
In 1883, Warren S. Johnson, a professor at the State Normal School in Whitewater, Wisconsin, received a patent for the first electric room thermostat. His invention launched the building control industry and was the impetus for a new company.
Johnson and a group of Milwaukee investors incorporated the Johnson Electric Service Company in 1885 to manufacture, install and service automatic temperature regulation systems for buildings. The company was renamed Johnson Controls in 1974.
Between 1885 and 1911, Professor Johnson delved into many other areas, including electric storage batteries, steam and gas powered automobiles, huge pneumatic tower clocks and wireless telegraph communication. But at his death in 1911, the company decided to focus solely on its temperature control business for nonresidential buildings.
Johnson Controls continued to develop innovative new control technologies to help customers better manage their increasingly larger and more complex buildings. By the 1950s, for example, it was common for a large building to have hundreds of thermostats, valves, dampers and other temperature control devices installed throughout the facility, all of which had to be individually checked several times a day. To improve the efficiency of building operations staff, Johnson Controls introduced its Pneumatic Control Center, for the first time enabling a building operator to monitor and operate all the temperature control devices in a facility from a single, central site.
The company that founded the controls industry has remained its technological leader. In 1972, it built the industry's first mini-computer dedicated to building control-the JC80. In the 1980s, Johnson Controls adopted digital control technology with its JC85, which gave customers faster and more precise control of building systems. In the 1990s, the company pioneered open communication protocols, which allows control devices from various manufacturers to share data directly for the first time. Today, its Metasys® Facilities Management System is reducing energy costs and improving indoor comfort in thousands of buildings around the world.
Service of facilities management systems has long been a staple of the company's offerings. Since the mid-1980s, it has expanded its scope to cover mechanical and electrical equipment to help customers reduce the number of service suppliers they need. The company created Integrated Facilities Management (IFM) to give customers a single source for operations and maintenance of all building systems and functions, and to ensure maximum building efficiency and reliability. Johnson Controls now provides full-time, on-site IFM staff for more than 600 million square feet of building space around the world, including IBM's facilities in 20 countries, and U.S. Government facilities in Cape Canaveral.
In 1978, Johnson Controls acquired Globe-Union, a Wisconsin-based manufacturer of automotive batteries for both the replacement and original equipment markets. Today, Johnson Controls is the largest producer of private-label lead-acid automotive batteries in North America, and is spreading its leadership to Asia and South America. The company also makes batteries for emergency power back-up and telecommunication applications.
Johnson Controls entered the automotive seating and plastics machinery industries in 1985 with the acquisition of Michigan-based Hoover Universal, Inc. At the time, the seating business primarily manufactured individual components, like frames, tracks or cushions, according to the automakers' specifications.
Today the company has become the world's largest manufacturer of complete seats, with manufacturing plants on five continents. Our just-in-time plants are located near customers' vehicle assembly plants. Seats are assembled, loaded on a truck, in a sequence that matches the cars coming down the assembly line, and delivered to the customer all in as little as 90 minutes.
Hoover started making components for automotive seats in the mid-1960s. Over the last decade, Johnson Controls has also developed comprehensive research, development, design, engineering and testing capabilities. This broad expertise is giving automakers and consumers seat systems with improved comfort, safety and technology.
Responding to its customers' requests, Johnson Controls expanded its presence within cars and light trucks in the early 1990s by offering interior components such as headliners and door trim. It significantly strengthened its position as a worldwide leader in interior systems through the 1996 acquisition of Prince Automotive.
Prince is known for its innovation, from the first lighted vanity mirror in 1972 to the integration of electronics into interior systems. Johnson Controls currently provides all aspects of a complete interior, including overhead systems, floor consoles, door systems, instrument panels and seat systems.
In both its automotive and controls businesses, Johnson Controls remains committed to exceeding the increasing expectations of its customers. This commitment has enabled it to succeed for more than a century, and provides it with exciting prospects for the future.
The Early Years
More than a century of exceeding expectations
1885 Johnson Electric Service Company founded
1887 Company pays first dividend
1902 Name changed to Johnson Service Co.
1903 Johnson humidostat specified by Willis Carrier for one of the world's first air conditioning installations -- a printing plant in Pennsylvania
1910 Opened first European sales offices
1940 Johnson Service Co. securities first listed on what is today the NASDAQ exchange
1956 Introduced Pneumatic Control Center, enabling centralized monitoring of building conditions for the first time
1950s-1980s
1965 Johnson Service Co. securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange
1966 Sales exceed $100 million
1968 Acquired Penn Controls which produces refrigeration and gas heating controls
1968 Became a Fortune 500 company
1972 Introduced JC80, the first mini-computer built to control building systems
1974 Company renamed Johnson Controls, Inc.
1978 Acquired Globe-Union, Inc. and entered automotive battery business
1985 Acquired Hoover Universal, the source of its automotive seating and plastics machinery businesses
1989 Acquired Pan Am World Services and entered facilities management business
1990s
1990s1990 Introduced Metasys® Facilities Management System
1992 $5.2 billion in sales
1995 Opened 150th manufacturing plant
1996 Made seats for more than eight million new automobiles
1996 Selected for Industry Week Magazine's "100 Best Managed Companies in The World" list
1996 Acquired Prince Automotive and greatly expanded its automotive interior systems business
1996 Sales exceed $10 billion
1998 Largest seating supplier in South America
1998 Installed 10,000th Metasys® facilities management system
1998 Acquired Becker Group, European automotive interior supplier
1998 Acquired Cardkey integrated security solutions
1999 Named GM "Corporation of the Year" out of 30,000 suppliers
1999 U.S. EPA Energy Star buildings "Ally of the Year"
1999 Winner of Mandela International Award for Good Diversity Practices
2000s
2000 Acquired Ikeda Bussan, auto seat supplier (Japan)
2000 Introduced new products including Auto Vision, in-vehicle video system
2001 Acquisition of Sagem (France), maker of automotive interior electronics
2001 Acquisition of Hoppecke, German automotive battery manufacturer
2002 Acquired Varta automotive battery division (Germany)
2002 Sales exceed $20 billion
2003 Acquired Borg Instruments, Germany
2003 Exceeded $1 billion in purchases from diverse suppliers; named to Billion Dollar Roundtable
2004 Increased dividend for 30th consecutive year
2004 Received the World Environment Center's Gold Medal for International Corporate Achievement in Sustainable Development
2004 Granted a contract for lithium-ion battery development for the United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC)
2005 Acquired York International, a global supplier of heating, ventilating, air-conditioning and refrigeration equipment and services
2005 Acquired Delphi's global automotive battery business
2005 Named to Dow Jones Sustainability World Index
2006 Hosted President George W. Bush for major energy speech at Building Efficiency headquarters in Milwaukee
2006 Sales exceed $30 billion
2007 New branding is introduced; "Ingenuity Welcome" becomes the company slogan
2007 Steve Roell is named CEO, the company's ninth in 122 years
2008 ASME designates the company's 1895 automatic temperature control system as a historical mechanical engineering landmark
Acquisitions
- 1968 - Penn Controls (refrigeration and gas heating controls)
- 1978 - Globe Union Inc (automotive batteries)
- 1985 - Hoover Universal (automotive seating and plastics machinery)
- 1989 - Pan Am World Services (facilities management)
- 1996 - Prince Corporation (automotive interiors and electronics)
- 2005 - USI Real Estate (office real estate)
- 2005 - York International (air conditioning, heating and refrigerating), $3.2 billion
- 2007 - Skymark International (air conditioning, heating and refrigerating)
- 2008 - Plastech (injection-molded components and assemblies)
Joint ventures
BLJC
Brookfield LePage Johnson Controls is a joint venture with Brookfield Properties to provide commercial property management services in Canada. It was established in 1990.
JCS and Electric Vehicles
Johnson Controls-Saft Advanced Power Solutions (JCS) is a joint venture between Johnson Controls and French battery company Saft. It was officially launched in January 2006.
Varta has established a JCS development centre at its German HQ, following the setting-up of Varta-SAFT joint venture.
Johnson Controls is exhibiting a plug-in hybrid concept called the re3, which embodies the technologies that the company can offer to automakers. Johnson Controls is producing lithium-ion hybrid vehicle batteries in France under the joint venture with Saft.
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