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Original equipment manufacturer


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An original equipment manufacturer, or OEM, manufactures products or components that are purchased by a company and retailed under that purchasing company's brand name.[ref 1] OEM refers to the company that originally manufactured the product. When referring to automotive parts, OEM designates a replacement part made by the manufacturer of the original part.[1] In this usage, OEM means "original equipment from manufacturer".





Contents
[hide] 1 Confusing and contradictory definitions
2 Auto parts
3 Economies of scale
4 Automotive parts
5 Origin of term
6 OEM labeling
7 See also
8 References


[edit] Confusing and contradictory definitions

OEM may refer to a company that purchases for use in its own products a component made by a second company.[2] Under this definition, if Apple purchases optical drives from Toshiba to put in its computers, Apple is the OEM.
Contradictory usage
An even more confusing, contradictory definition is a company that sells the product of a second company under its own brand name.[3]