REENERGIZING THE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

CULTURE

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Lear Profile Overview

Supplying the World’s

Major Automakers

Global Capabilities

• 226 Facilities

• 36 Countries

• 21 Low Cost Facilities

Lear Profile Overview

6%

38%

18%

38%

By Region

South America North America Asia Europe / Africa

Lear Profile Overview

• Strong Market Position

• One of two independent seat suppliers with

global scale and complete component

capabilities

• Key Capabilities

• Complete automotive seat systems, seat

covers (including cut and sew, fabric, &

leather), mechanisms and structures 7

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• Quality Leader

• Lear is the highest quality independent

major seat manufacture for 12 of the last 13

years according to J.D. Power and

Associates Seat Quality & Satisfaction

Study

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The World Leader in Luxury & Performance Automotive Seating

Lear Profile Overview

• Strong Market Position

• One of four suppliers with global capability in both

traditional and high-power electrical power management

systems

• Key Capabilities

• Traditional electrical distribution systems, emerging high-

power systems and related components including

connections, smart junction boxes and battery chargers

• Quality Leader

• Outstanding program management capabilities support

thousands of design changes per year with world class

quality

• Benchmark Technology

• Lear’s Solid State Smart Junction Box won an industry

leading PACE award sponsored by Automotive News

TM

A Global Leader in Automotive Electrical Distribution Systems

• World Class Manufacturing Operations

– Flexible production capabilities - niche to mass production volume

– Global standardized operational systems

• Skilled Workforce

– 122,000 employees

– Manual to high skill technical labor

• Mass Material Management

– 80,000 finished goods part numbers globally

– 107 million yards of fabric processed annually

– 3 million miles of wire processed annually

Flexible Manufacturing Solutions for Global Customers

Lear Profile Overview

The Lean / Six Sigma Journey

2000 Six Sigma Academy

2001 SS Globally Deployed

Lean Training

2002 Design for Six Sigma

Presidents OEA

2003 Lean Assessments Supplier Six Sigma

2004 - 2008 OE / WCM

2008 Reorganization

Lean Six Sigma Energizing Process

2012

2013

2014

• Reenergize C.I. Culture

• Leadership Commitment

• WCM (6 Plants)

• Dedicated Regional C.I.

• Dedicated Plant C.I.

• Training / Coaching

• Everything Lean / Six Sigma Web

• C.I. Networking (blog)

• Gemba Partnership

• Operational Excellence Assessment

• Story Boards / Market Place

• Training / SPL / Support Documents

• Model Line

• Leadership Model

• Best Practice Web

• Automated Layered Process Audits

• People Development

• $43M Continuous Improvement Implementation

Journey to Operational Excellence

Video Training

Single Point Lessons Discussion / Blog Market Place / Standards

Success Stories

News / Events / Lean / Six Sigma / Training / BP

Operational Excellence

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Journey to Operational Excellence

WORLD CLASS MANUFACTURING

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