Six Sigma

Janos Technology is currently deploying Six Sigma, the highest level of Total Quality Management, in our journey to becoming the world’s premier supplier of advanced optics, components and assemblies.

Why Six Sigma? Because the goal of Six Sigma is to increase profits by eliminating variability, defects and waste that undermine internal and external customer loyalty. The methodology provides our business with the tools to improve the capability of our business processes. We will realize an increase in performance and the quality of our products.

Six Sigma is a philosophy of doing business encompassing continuous improvement and defect prevention rather than detection. Six Sigma provides us with the statistical tools from Pareto charts to designed experiments that allow us to eliminate variation affecting target values and move our product and processes to their optimal target values.

Six Sigma has five phases that we are deploying: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control (DMAIC),

The strategy focuses on getting rid of problems, rethinking our task and streamlining processes. In some case this may mean completely changing the way we have been doing things. "It is not about fixing things, it is about reinventing them", states Max Allway, Vice President of consulting at the Six Sigma Academy.

Customer Benefits:

• Shorter Cycle Time
• Improved on-time delivery
• Less scrap & rework

“If you do not measure something, you can not control it and if you can not control it, you can't improve it”, explains Mike Harry, one of the founders of Six Sigma.

Janos Technology is also implementing Lean Manufacturing as a function of the continuous improvement plan. Lean and Six Sigma complement one another and together provide us with a structured road map in achieving our goals.