Satel

“Alliance Memory passed all the tests we use to qualify a supplier’s reliability,” says Tomasz Kaminski, Vice Director of Purchasing at Satel.

Challenge/Solution

At Satel, quality is paramount. Every product must meet a vast number of requirements, from design through prototyping and production, as well as undergoing comprehensive testing. Many of Satel’s 200 products use legacy memory ICs. Given the company’s focus on quality, and the safety-critical nature of the applications it addresses, Satel sources components only from reliable and approved suppliers. Availability of the appropriate memory ICs not only impacts quality, but also the Satel’s ability to hold the line on costs. Since 2009, Alliance Memory has been among the component manufacturers that Satel depends on, supplying the company with low-power SRAM ICs with densities of 64k, 256k, 1M, and 4M.At Wellex, the company’s overriding goal is to enable its customers to get their products to market at the best possible price. Achieving that goals means having component suppliers that not only deliver superior product but are willing to work with Wellex to hold the line on prices. When the company’s Korea-based SRAM supplier went EOL on a 4M low-power SRAM for which the second source was a pricier device sold through a distributor, Alliance Memory stepped in—first as secondary source and then as primary source for the IC.