Flexible and efficient production with Additive Manufacturing - JTekt testimonial (Jean-Louis Dam - Managing Director, JTEKT Torsen Europe)

1. ZF 8HP (Audi AL551) 8speed Automatic Transmission for Audi Quattro models
Torsen Type C EA36
JTEKT Torsen Europe
The heart of Audi Quattro since ’85

2. 1.1 : Torsen installation in vehicle
The heart of Audi Quattro since ’85 (Quattro = 4x4 system)
Torsen Type C
in Audi Q7

3. 1.2 : JTEKT Corp. Business Outlook
3
Japan
Sales : 4.175 Mio Eur
JTEKT & Subsidiaries : 40
Equity-method companies : 5
Number of Employees : 17.651
North America
Sales : 1.859 Mio Eur
Consolidated Subsidiaries : 17
Equity-method companies : 2
Number of Employees : 5.881
Europe : JEO
Sales : 1.489 Mio Eur
Consolidated Subsidiaries : 26
Equity-method companies : 3
Number of Employees : 7.262
Asia, Oceania & others
Sales : 1.938 Mio Eur
Consolidated Subsidiaries : 57
Equity-method companies : 9
Number of Employees : 12.662
Total
9.462 Mio €
Total
9.462 Mio €
Automotive Components
(Steering systems)
Automotive Components
(Driveline components)
1.049 Mio €
4.499 Mio €
Turnover by Division
Bearing business
Machine / Tools
JTEKT Corporation
Established : January 2006
(merger of Koyo Seiko - Toyoda Machine Works)
Head offices : Nagoya & Osaka, Japan
< Status FY2013 >
Employees : 43.456 worldwide
(JTEKT Japan : 11.015)
Turnover : 9.462 Million Eur*
Operating profit : 438 Million Eur* (4.6%)
(as of March 31st, 2014 / 1 Eur = 133 JPY)
2.743 Mio €
1.171 Mio €
Turnover by Region
ITCC AWD Coupling
TORSEN LSD
Drive / Propeller shafts
Oil pumps , others

4. 4
2.1 : JTRE Outline
Component
Machining
area 8200m2
HT and
Assy area
4500m2
Multi purpose
building
Office
JTEKT TORSEN Europe SA (JTRE) Strepy-Bracquegnies, Belgium
Established : May 1989 (production started in ’85 by Gleason)
Main business : Sales, Development and Manufacturing of Torsen LSD product
Capital : 11.1 Mio € (100% by JTRH, holding company by JTEKT)
Employees : 187 (as of March 2016, incl 3 Japanese expatriate)
Land space : 53,000m2
Building space : 16,600m2
Torsen Type A Type B Type C
About 50km from Brussels, Belgium

5. 5
2.2 : Applications for Premium European vehicles

6. 6
3 : Sales History and future trend
Recover & expand in our main AWD market by increasing share with new generation Type C
for light weight / compactness and good NVH at lower price
EA36
EA49
Automotive Crisis
+
Severe compatition
Torsen for AWD market
Market
diversity

7. 7
What can we still manufacture in Belgium ?
- Products and parts design (several functions on
same part)
- Process design (“360° improvements”) / ROI
- Human Factor
- Energy saving / Environment
- Manufacturing technologies / ADD MFG
- Simultaneous product & process development
4.1 : Factories of the future

8. 8
Customers’ needs => adaptation / agility
- Multitasks machines / ADD MFG
- Innovative design / eco-friendly
- Innovative tools
- Energy consumption
- Eco-manufacturing
- Eco-design (less raw material less resources)
- Flexibility of Machines on site
- Flexibility of human organization
4.3 : Factories of the future / outils

9. Education R & D
5.2 : Network of Torsen business in Wallonia

10. 6.1 : JTRE Nationalities (14)
From Japan, France, Belgium, Greece,
Ecuador, Italy, Vietnam,…

11. 6.2 : JTRE Nationalities (14)
…Morroco, Germany, Ukraine, Austria,
Portugal, Turkey, Roumania.

12. 7 : JTEKT Torsen Europe
JTEKT Torsen Europe
is aiming to be the
perfect mix between
Japanese and
European strengths.