What are OEMs? (Original Equipment Manufacturers)
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·2018-05-06
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ever worked on a group project where you did all the work but you're lazy partner
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put his name on it too and got an easy a or maybe it would be more relevant to
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ask if you've ever written the paper that someone else paid you for well
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while the latter would get you kicked out of most universities for academic
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dishonesty something similar is actually a widespread and perfectly accepted
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practice in the technology industry I'm talking about the use of original
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equipment manufacturers or OMS so here's
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how it works think about the last time you visited a fast-food joint like
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McDonald's chances are if you walk around back you'll see some dumpsters
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and a few teenagers with nowhere else to be not a patch of land where McDonald's
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is raising its own cows growing its own potatoes and refining its own sugar for
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the soda fountain well I'm sure it seems obvious now that we mentioned it but
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McDonald's buys all that stuff from outside companies cooks it and then
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Marcus it as the Big Mac value meal that you happily gobble up the reason for
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this is that it's far cheaper and easier for them to outsource farming and even
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some other processes like baking buns than it is for them to build a thousand
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barns and raise millions of chickens by themselves so bringing this back to the
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tech world many of the companies that you think of as businesses that make
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electronics don't actually make electronics at all a great example of
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this is Apple Apple doesn't use its own factories to produce the iPhone rather
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they're all made by companies like Foxconn and Pegatron headquartered in
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Taiwan who used to spec's the Apple sends to them and indeed many different
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electronics are manufactured this way a design team at company a will come up
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with a product idea and design a schematic but then pay Company B to
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actually make it even though company B's name never shows up on the products you
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end up buying I mean can you imagine that the Foxconn iPhone X another thing
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that makes the iPhone such an interesting example is the fact that Apple could afford to build their own
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factories but they don't the reality is that supervising the process but leaving
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a manufacturing specialist to actually build the devices saves them tons of
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money they save on the upfront cost of building the facility they save on labor
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and they can leverage the supply chain expertise and the overall volley Bellus
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large manufacturers acquire raw materials in bulk at great prices
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remember Foxconn makes a lot more than just iPhones other manufacturers even
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take things a step farther and make their own product lineups without any
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speck from any outside company then sell these wholesale to companies who will
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slap their own badge on them and maybe provide a few extras like additional
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warranty support or aesthetic improvements this variation makes the
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manufacture of more of an OD M with the D standing for design and is a frequent
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practice with power supply brands for example to our knowledge ROS will and
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fractal designs aren't evolves for the technical design process of their own PS
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use at all instead buying and rebranding
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units designed by ODMs now to be clear this isn't me that they're bad at all
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and sometimes there can be a benefit see sonic for example both bills and sells
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their own power supplies but often their prices are higher than the brand's who
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are rebadging what is in some cases fundamentally the same units but Jon why
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do I keep hearing people refer to companies like Dell and HP as OMS when
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they use lots of third-party components and their pre-built computers well
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that's a good point maybe a better term would be original equipment assemblers
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but regardless people do use the term OAM when they're talking about companies
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that sell pre bills as well which is why om versions of Windows cost less
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although the software is the same that are meant for businesses that sell pcs
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and provide their own support to customers meaning Microsoft won't give
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you any warranty support if there's a problem well let's get back to our
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original definition though because OMS are so common in the tech world
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sometimes we'll see a problem affect many different brands because they were
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using the same OAM this was speculated to have happened during the infamous
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capacitor plague of the early 2000s when several well-known brands had widespread
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issues with faulty products due to bad capacitors provided by an outside
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manufacturer so if you really want to know what's inside that shiny new power
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supply or monitor you just bought do your homework and see if you can
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identify which OMS if any were used you
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