A supplier s information, with detailed technical properties, can go directly to designers. ECIX compliant suppliers can quickly market their products early in the designers component selection process. Furthermore, suppliers can focus more on key applications and customers, which should result in more design wins. Internet Suppliers have improved information availability on their web sites. However, these web sites still have not met customers needs.
Suppliers use their web sites as a publication rather than a communications medium.
The sites lack required standard component information content, do not meet the variety of product realization use models, and fractionate information sources. Many designers give up after spending considerable time searching for specific component information or trying to compare similar components manufactured by different suppliers. We are in a fast-changing and highly competitive world. In order to be successful, our strategic partners and we must be more productive and cost-effective. Lucent Technologies is committed to the adoption of ECIX standards, which are critical to reducing our design cycle and improving customer satisfaction.