Johnson Controls presents its seating comfort concepts Dr. Susanne Frohriep, Manager New Technologies at Johnson Controls GmbH, Germany, presents how Johnson Controls define and measure comfort as well as how they adjust to human variation. Read it here: http://bit.ly/Frohriep_Slideshare

1. INNOVATIVE SEATING 2014
Seating Comfort Concepts
Dr. Susanne Frohriep
Seat Systems Human Factors

2. Seating Comfort Concepts
Agenda
 Johnson Controls Automotive Seating T&AD
 Defining Comfort
 The Interrelationship of Comfort and Discomfort
 Methods for Measuring Comfort and their Reliability
 Embracing Human Variation
Technology 2 & Advanced Development Group

3. Technology & Advanced
Development Group (T&AD)
Automotive Seating

4. Technology & Advanced Development Group Automotive Seating
Mission and Role
 Product Groups drive product and process excellence
 Technology Group Mission:
Provide Product Groups with unique technologies
that help them to be best-in-class
with innovative, differentiating products
3 – 10 Years 1 – 3 Years Market Ready
AE Seating
Technology
Product
Groups Products
Advanced
Product
Development,
Phase 0
Market-available
Technology
Johnson Controls Automotive Seating - Technology 8 & Advanced Development Group
Differentiating

5. Technology & Advanced Development Group Automotive Seating
Technology Domains
 Senior technology experts in
each Domain – Domain
Leads – build a “critical mass”
of expertise around them
 Each Technology Domain
develops a strategy and
implements a roadmap for
developing a leading
technology portfolio
 Cross-functional project
teams deliver differentiating
technologies that enable our
Product Groups to be
best-in-class
Johnson Controls Automotive Seating - Technology 9 & Advanced Development Group

6. Seating Comfort Concepts
Defining Comfort
Historical Definitions
 It was previously assumed that “comfort” could be defined as the “absence of
discomfort”, and that
 Comfort and discomfort are on two opposite ends of the same scale
 These models have been deemed obsolete in current research
Technology 10 & Advanced Development Group