Developed by Motorola Corporation in the late 1980's and early 1990's, and now widely used at leading companies such as General Electric, Six Sigma is a data-intensive approach for reducing defects in products or services. Unlike traditional quality methods, Six Sigma relies on the most important source to define quality - the customer.
Our approach to Six Sigma begins by fully understanding the needs of our customers. We then continuously improve our ability to satisfy those needs to exacting standards by relentlessly gathering data and statistically analyzing that data.
What is a sigma? In relation to this effort, it is a statistical unit of measurement that reflects how well a product or process performs. When the number of defects in a product or process decreases, yield and the sigma value increases.
For a better understanding of the effect of Six Sigma, consider a company that ships a million products 99 percent defect-free . That results in 10,000 defective products per million shipped. A company such as this operates in the four sigma range. To meet Six Sigma, that same company would need to ship 99.99966 percent of its products defect free, or just four. This is the goal of Xycom Automation.
Six Sigma methodology eliminates variation by taking a practical problem, translating it into a statistical problem, calculating a statistical solution to the problem, and then implementing it as a practical solution.
Our Six Sigma approach will help to ensure ultimate customer satisfaction with the quality of our products through feedback and decisions based on accurate, objective data, and precise performance measurements.
