Restructuring Costs

12 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

RESTRUCTURING COSTS

Each year the Company incurs costs to size its businesses to levels appropriate for current economic conditions and to continually improve its cost structure and operational efficiency, deploy assets globally, and remain competitive on a worldwide basis. Costs result from numerous individual actions implemented across the Company's various operating units on an ongoing basis and can include costs for moving facilities to best-cost locations, restarting plants after relocation or geographic expansion to better serve local markets, reducing forcecount or the number of facilities, exiting certain product lines, and other costs resulting from asset deployment decisions (such as contract termination costs, asset write-downs and vacant facility costs).

Restructuring expenses were $95, $65 and $78 for 2019, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and included $7, $19 and $25 related to acquisitions, respectively.

Restructuring costs by business segment follows:



	2017		2018	2019
Automation Solutions	$	63	41	65

Climate Technologies	10		20	20
Tools & Home Products	2		3	7
Commercial & Residential Solutions	12		23	27

Corporate	3		1	3

Total	$	78	65	95

Costs incurred in 2019, 2018 and 2017 primarily related to the deployment of resources to better serve local markets and higher growth areas, and the integration of acquisitions. In 2019, restructuring activities included actions to exit two production facilities worldwide and eliminate approximately 1,100 positions. Expenses incurred in 2018 and 2017 included actions to exit six and ten facilities, and eliminate approximately 1,200 and 1,200 positions, respectively.

The change in the liability for restructuring costs during the years ended September 30 follows:



	2018		Expense		Utilized/Paid		2019
Severance and benefits	$	46		72		56	62
Other	6			23		22	7
Total	$	52		95		78	69



	2017		Expense		Utilized/Paid		2018
Severance and benefits	$	60		43		57	46
Other	5			22		21	6
Total	$	65		65		78	52