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What is an OEM machine?
OEM is the abbreviation of English original equipment manufacturer. Literally, it should be translated into original equipment manufacturer. It means that a manufacturer produces products and product accessories for another manufacturer according to his requirements. Also called OEM or authorized OEM. It can represent outsourcing or subcontracting. Commonly known as cooperative production and tripartite processing in China, commonly known as processing trade.

OEM is the only way under the trend of large-scale socialized production and cooperation, and it is also one of the effective ways to rationalize resources and the result of large-scale socialized production. In Europe, OEM trade associations were established as early as 1960s, and OEM production and trade reached 350 billion euros in 1998, accounting for more than 14% of the total industrial output value in Europe. OEM production has become an important part of modern industrial production. With the further acceleration of economic globalization, OEM demanders may choose OEM suppliers in a wider range, especially to countries and regions with low processing and manufacturing costs.

In Asia, in order to quickly occupy the market and reduce production costs, Japanese companies take the lead in adopting the form of international OEM production and trade. The soaring of "Four Little Dragons in Asia" is also closely related to OEM. Among them, Taiwan Province Province has already become the world's largest PC OEM base, and India has also become the world's largest computer software exporter through OEM. Who is the president of General Compaq in IT industry, from technology to parts to functional modules of software? When talking about this issue, Fife said. , and openly said to save the burden of those so-called assets (factories, equipment, office buildings, etc.). Some people even say: OEM makes the whole IT industry! The annual sales revenue of American Nike Company is as high as $2 billion, but it has no production factory and only focuses on research, design and marketing. All products are produced by OEM, which has become a successful mode of OEM operation in the world.