What is the difference between OEM and ODM?

What does an OEM mean

OEM Full name Original equipment manufacturer, refers to the manufacturer according to the original requirements and authorization, according to specific conditions and production. All the design drawings and so on are completely in accordance with the design of upstream manufacturers to carry out the manufacturing process, the straightforward saying is the foundry. At present, the major brands of hardware manufacturers have OEM, that is, the product is not the original brand manufacturers, but with a factory production, products affixed to their own product brands, relative to the brand value to sell products, the current OEM products in the first-line brand in the low-end products.

OEMs can also be understood as the production of brand and OEM, the first popular in Europe and the United States and other developed countries, it is the major international companies to find their comparative advantage of a game rules, can reduce production costs, improve brand value-added. In recent years, the major first-line brands and even second-line brand computer hardware are generally in the foundry situation, only the vast majority of high-end products in the technical secrecy, are produced by the brand merchants themselves. But the first-line brand manufacturers most of the product quality control is more stringent, so the first brand selection of OEM manufacturers are two or three lines have a certain strength manufacturers, and can not be certain that OEM products are very poor, can only say that the original products are more or less there is a certain difference, so we are more happy with the original products.

　The difference between OEM and ODM

Referring to the OEM, it is easy to let the experts to contact ODM, which is also two have many similar meanings of another concept. ODM (Original design manufacturer) is the product design and development activities, through high-performance product development speed and competitive manufacturing efficiency, to meet the needs of buyers. The technical capability is sufficient to improve the design capability, which enables the initiation of the process and the processing of design and development related matters. OEM and ODM The most obvious difference is that the OEM is commissioned by the original manufacturing, and ODM OEM commissioned design. One is commissioned manufacturing, one is commissioned design, which is the biggest difference between the two.

In industrial societies, OEMs and ODM are commonplace. Because of manufacturing costs, transportation convenience, saving development time and other aspects of consideration, well-known brand enterprises are generally willing to find other manufacturers OEM or ODM. When looking for another enterprise OEM or ODM, well-known brand enterprises also have to bear a lot of responsibility. After all, the product is the crown of their own brand, if the product quality is not good, fewer customers to find complaints, heavy may be to court. Therefore, the brand enterprises during the commissioning process will certainly carry out strict quality control. But after the end of the foundry, quality is not guaranteed. Therefore, when some merchants tell you that a product manufacturer is a major brand of OEM or ODM products, never believe that its quality is equivalent to the brand. The only thing you can believe is that the manufacturer has a certain capacity for production.