Rohde & Schwarz and Promate sign a global strategic framework agreement for display solutions

The Rohde & Schwarz electronics group and Promate Electronic Co., Ltd., Taiwan, a leading provider of industrial display modules, are strengthening their collaboration with a global strategic procurement agreement.

Rohde & Schwarz and Promate have expressed the mutual interest for a long-term collaboration on an important material group by signing a global framework agreement for the development and delivery of display solutions. Displays, which increasingly include touch functionality, represent an important human-machine interface for end-users of test & measurement and communications equipment. Rohde & Schwarz has successfully partnered with this industrial Taiwanese Specialist for some time. Promate has now been confirmed as a Preferred Supplier, formalizing the partnership on a new contractual basis.

Manufacturing the high tech Rohde & Schwarz products poses complex challenges for the group’s supply chain. Deliveries of electronic assemblies and subsystems must be on time, high quality and cost-optimized. Peter Schlindwein, who heads Corporate Procurement at Rohde & Schwarz, emphasizes: “We need suppliers like Promate who are sufficiently flexible, technically competent and competitive. Together we have laid a new foundation that solidifies existing business and offers a legal platform for further expansion.”

Cheer Du, Chief Operating Officer of Promate Electronic, sees the cooperation with Rohde & Schwarz as validation of her company as a reliable solutions provider for the industry. “Rohde & Schwarz is a high technology company who fits to Promate and together we can bring state of art display solutions to the Rohde & Schwarz products.”

Photo: Peter Schlindwein, Vice President Corporate Procurement of Rohde & Schwarz (left) and Cheer Du, Chief Operating Officer of Promate Electronic, signing the global strategic framework agreement.