All rights reserved. Permission given to use the script provided that this notice remains as is. The market for outsourced seat modules is mature, but other interior sectors are growing fast.
Cockpits are one of the most important growth areas.
In North America, instrument panels are already extensively outsourced and cockpit outsourcing is rising. But the company expects outsourcing levels to reach 85 percent in both regions by 2010. Johnson Controls supplies instrument panels, overhead modules and seating components for the C-class. The cockpit includes air-conditioning system, airbag module, steering column, cross member, wiring harness, sound dampening and other smaller parts. The South African cockpit is the first application for Johnson Controls' Fibropress material, which can be used to produce more complicated cockpit shapes and allows the airbag to be invisibly integrated into the cockpit.