Case Study: Johnson Controls achieves 70%+ continuous improvement savings by leveraging best-practice deployment with Upland PowerSteering

Upland’s PowerSteering empowers best practice deployment at Johnson Controls

Johnson Controls, a global technology and industrial leader operating across 300+ plants and 150+ countries, launched a company-wide Six Sigma/Continuous Improvement program but outgrew its Lotus Notes tracking tool. The company needed a scalable project portfolio management solution to coordinate thousands of CI projects, benchmark results across divisions, and deploy proven best practices enterprise-wide.

In 2010 JCI adopted Upland’s PowerSteering to standardize tracking, enable workstreams and “push” bulk deployments, and support benchmarking across sites. PowerSteering now supports 600+ CI professionals and 1,000+ Green Belts, enabling roughly 10,000 projects per year; results include one plant realizing over 70% of its CI savings (nearly $1M) from leveraged projects, nearly two‑thirds of savings in a financial center coming from benchmarking, and deployment of sustainability practices to 250+ plants that reduced energy use and GHG emissions.

Johnson Controls

Kevin Filcik

Continuous Improvement Controller