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Manual FAT EU 2018

FAT EU General Management (GM) is the strategic and operational Board of the
FAT EU. It is responsible for the operational performance of the FAT EU organization
as well as for the strategic decisions and guidelines.

Product Center: There are four Product Centers for fastening elements and one
Product Center for Automation. These structures are to be understood as Centres of
Competence around the following five topics:
PC THT - Product Center Thread Technology
PC MJT - Product Center Mechanical Joining Technology
PC IMT - Product Center Injection Moulding Technology
PC BRT - Product Center Blind Rivet Technology
PC Automation - Product Center Automation

EU Sales: All sales activities in the European market are bundled and managed by
Sales Management EU. The entire market was divided into market segments
Automotive, Industries and Aerospace. The Sales of the Automation products is
responsibility of the Competence Center Automation.

Central Innovation: The area of innovation is centred and, in especially, a clear
distinction is made between Pre-development and Development in the individual
Product Centers. Pre-development activities are also managed throughout Europe.
This also includes the development of products which, due to their maturity, are
beyond the pre-development stage but which cannot yet be assigned to a Product
Center - "New Product Groups”.

EU Production & Supply Chain coordination: The entire global production of
fastening elements is coordinated by the Production & Production Supply Chain
Manager in cooperation with Product Centers.

Country Management: The country management model is explained in a separate
chapter.

Figure 7: FAT EU general management structure

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