REDMOND, WA –Data I/O, provider of manual and automated programming systems, has named the second member of its Preferred Partnership Program. The company is also in talking about the program with several other memory and microcontroller companies.
 

 
Program benefits and collaboration areas include:
 
Focused attention on increasing quality of service and reducing time-to-market;
Offering a full solution to end customers rather than selling only a device;
Providing global support to partners and mutual customers;
Helping multi-national OEM customers to link their design and manufacturing in wireless, automotive, consumer electronics, white goods and process control markets;
Protecting IP with “Connected Strategy”;
Helping partners and mutual customers improve profitability and achieve Lean manufacturing by reducing RMAs and introducing higher quality standards;
Educating mutual customers and arranging joint seminars globally;
Providing “Priority Device Support” for partners and their customers;
Collaborating to develop and/or license technology from each other;
Collaborating between partners’ sales/FAE forces early enough to address manufacturing related issues during design phase.