Power Chat Puts Customers in Direct Real-Time, Online Contact with Murata Power Solutions' Engineers for Fastest Response to Application Questions


o High-availability online service via www.murata-ps.com
o Staffed by engineers with specialist product knowledge
o Provides fast response to technical and commercial questions

Murata Power Solutions has introduced a new online service that allows customers to discuss their product and application needs in real-time with technical and engineering experts. Power Chat, which can be found via murata-ps.com, further enhances Murata Power Solutions' market-leading customer service by supplying comprehensive and accurate information in the shortest possible time.

Power Chat has 'chatters' situated at various Murata Power Solutions locations across the globe. The service features specialists from product groups including DC/DC converters, AC/DC power supplies, magnetics, digital panel meters and data acquisition products.

Available 20 hours a day, the Power Chat group can answer most technical product and application questions in real-time. For deeply complex issues, they can draw upon further engineering resource within Murata Power Solutions to provide a comprehensive response and recommendations as quickly as possible.

Power Chat is also able to satisfy non-technical requirements such as providing pricing, product availability, samples, catalogues and local area support information. The entire transcripts of ongoing Power Chat discussions can be easily transferred between Murata Power Solutions' customer and technical support areas to accelerate the handling of customer enquiries.

Commenting on the introduction of the Power Chat service, John Sutherby, Director of Marketing Communications, Murata Power Solutions said: "Power Chat is unique in that it places our technical specialists in direct contact with customers via a high-availability real-time, online service. We are acutely aware that the immediacy of quality, tailored information is a key requirement of today's engineers in order for them to develop their new product designs in the shortest possible time. Power Chat provides an important tool to help them achieve this."

About Murata Power Solutions

Murata Power Solutions (www.murata-ps.com) is headquartered in Mansfield, Massachusetts, with over 1,300 employees, and locations in the USA, Canada, England, France, Germany, Singapore, Japan and China. Murata Power Solutions designs, manufactures and distributes DC/DC Converters, AC/DC Power Supplies, Magnetics, Data Acquisition devices and Panel Meters, and offers these products in custom, standard and modified-standard variations. These products, which are built to exacting requirements in ISO9000:2000-approved facilities, are typically used worldwide within telecommunications, computing, industrial and other high-tech applications.

About Murata

Based in Kyoto Japan, Murata Manufacturing Company Ltd is one of the world's leading providers of ceramic based components, sensors, and AC/DC and DC/DC power solutions. Founded in 1950, the company has over 34,000 employees worldwide, and over $6.3 billion US in consolidated annual sales (as of March 31, 2008). Everywhere in the world, wherever you can reach, Murata's electronic components are always at work.

Murata Power Solutions, Inc.
11 Cabot Boulevard,
Mansfield, MA, 02048,
USA.

John Sutherby
Director, Marketing Communications
+1-508-339-3000 ext.117
John.Sutherby@murata-ps.com

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