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Lou Senunas Named Vice President, E-Business, Six Sigma and Productivity For Johnson Controls

11 September 2000

Lou Senunas Named Vice President, E-Business, Six Sigma and Productivity For Johnson Controls
    MILWAUKEE, Sept. 11 Johnson Controls, Inc.
today announced the election of Lou Senunas as Vice President, E-Business, Six
Sigma and Productivity.
    He will report to the Office of the Chief Executive Officer.
    With his new responsibilities, Senunas will "work with our global
automotive and nonresidential building markets business units to continue
development of a unified E-business strategy that leverages E-business efforts
throughout the company," said James H. Keyes, Chairman and CEO. "E-business
will have a profound impact on our industries and enable Johnson Controls to
establish new growth opportunities while achieving significant increases in
productivity in virtually all of our processes."
    For the past year, Senunas served as Vice President of Six Sigma and
Productivity. He will continue to lead the corporation's global deployment of
Six Sigma, a world-class quality improvement program designed to strengthen
the company's mission "to continually exceed customers' increasing
expectations."
    "Our E-business and Six Sigma initiatives are very complementary," said
Keyes. "Both support improved quality, first-time capability, cost reduction
and time compression for our products and services. We expect that bringing
them together will speed up improvements throughout the company."
    Senunas joined Johnson Controls in 1984, and has served in a number of
management positions, including Vice President and General Manager of the
former Plastics Machinery Division, and General Manager of the Ford Business
Unit and General Manager of Interiors, both in the Automotive Systems Group.
    He earned an MBA from Harvard University, and MS and BS degrees in
engineering from the University of Michigan.
    Johnson Controls, Inc. is a global market leader in automotive systems and
facility management and control. In the automotive market, it is a major
supplier of seating and interior systems, and batteries. For non-residential
facilities, Johnson Controls provides building control systems and services,
energy management and integrated facility management. Johnson Controls,
founded in 1885, has headquarters in Milwaukee, Wis. Its sales for 1999
totaled US$16.1 billion.