OTICS at a Glance

1. What kinds of parts does OTICS make?

OTICS manufactures automotive engine parts, with particular expertise in valve train parts. Components we produce as a specialist manufacturer include roller rocker arms, lash adjusters, valve lifters, roller tappets, and other such parts. Roller rocker arms are produced from standard version with sheet metal to cold forged products in order to gain higher strength. Moreover, our valve lifters are available in φ23.5-41 size shim-less and outer types, and we feature an ultra-high-volume mass production system. We have garnered an overwhelming share for Toyota Motor Corporation and Fuji Heavy Industries in roller rocker arms. Furthermore, we have confident in being the world's best valve lifter manufacturer for cost, production volume, and quality.

2. What about quality?

･As the recipient of various awards, including Toyota Motor Corporation's ""Sperior"Quality Performance Award", we enjoy a vaunted reputation for our efforts in cooperating quality control. We continue to communicate with our customers, thereby gaining an understanding of their expected levels of quality, and then production plans to improve quality to those levels, thus increasing customer satisfaction.

･Minor defects and problem issues that ordinarily come up on production lines are solved through activities called "QC Circle", which involve the entire workplace. Additionally, at our company-wide quality fairs, held once a year, we present many different examples of improvements we have made, including selected cases from our overseas subsidiaries. Furthermore, managers and supervisors observe operation and process in the workplace, fixing problems and inproving both working environment and working standard. These results will be reported to quality regular meeting and annual policy meeting. We also make conduct visitations to cooperating firms with guided tours that also include the participation of top executives, all in a company-wide effort to improve quality.

For more detailed information, please refer to the Quality page.

3.Overseas Bases

OTICS has developed overseas bases in the U.S, Indonesia, and China, and local staff are now undergoing training in Japanese quality control practices.

For more detailed information, please refer to the Group Profile page.

4. Strength of OTICS

･In order to ensure that all manufacturing by OTICS is fully incorporating with three concepts, high quality, low costs, and short delivery times, many of our machine tools are developed by our own hands. This works to simplify production processes and keep various production-related losses to a minimum.

･Our project teams consist of experts from the Technique Engineering Division and Production Engineering Division, along with factory staff and personnel in other related positions. New products are considered from a number of different views, such as how quickly it can be completed, how the quality can be improved, and so forth. This approach allows us to construct an integrated production system for the product and facilitates easier of communication between the different posts and divisions, enables quicker and more flexible response, which result in a number of other benefits.

･OTICS TECHNO Corporation, one of our group companies, provides OTICS with solid support by providing rapid fabrication and short delivery times of prototypes when OTICS receives orders for components. They are able to meet such demanding conditions thanks to the orders they received for prototype engine valve train parts using in motor sports which requires the very latest and advanced technology.
Favored by its position in such an optimal environment, OTICS has gone on to exhibit products for the company's most advanced technologies and expertise at the motor show. The company has acquired numerous patents as well.

For more detailed information, please refer to the "Strength of OTICS: Idea+Quality" page.