What is OEM and ODM? How is copying and rebranding? Where does Samsung / Apple produce their device?
Do you know what the OEM and ODM are? Today we will discuss about OEM and ODM; Know how the product or gadgets are made in the electronics world; Who are the original parts manufacturer, who are the original design creators; And how you get a re-branded and copied phone handset.
Not all companies make all their products; Not all companies can make all the products. Suppose you have a Samsung phone; Do you think that all the parts of the phone have made sense? Again, you have Lenovo's laptop; Do you think all the parts of the laptop have made Lenovo? Hold on to you again have an iPhone; Do you think Apple has made their own factory? Here are two main concepts to know; One is Concept of OEM and Concept of ODM.
OM - Original Equipment Manufactures
Let's first discuss with OEM. Suppose you have to make a product; Take a simple soundbox, smartphone, monitor, motherboard or anything like that. But you do not have the facility that you can build them; But you have a complete idea, there are full concepts, and how it works. You are doing research on your team product including, simulating the lab's virtually designed; Or you have created a copy of the phisically.
Then he gave it to another company; I told them that I designed this specification's product; You manipulate it or produce it and actually convert it. Here's what it's like to say; Make wooden chairs; You know how the design of the chair will be; Whether you have a handle or went to the furniture shop and convinced your conception, he came to order with 10 chairs.
Here's the concepts of the OEM concept here; How to design, what specification will be; Here's the product's IP, ownership, and control of the design it is [those who order or the client] have it. The work of the OEM is that they only make it in exchange for money.
For example, Foxcon is Apple's OEM, they make all of Apple's products. All the concepts including design are Apple's; Just manufactures or produces Foxcon This is basically the concept of OEM. Sometimes the OEM is taken differently; For example, MediaTek's is the processor of your device; In this case, the processor's OEM is MediaTek.
ODM (Original Design Manufactures)
Let's now come to the concept of ODM. Suppose you have ideas for your product; That can be done at this in your product; But you do not have the design. Then you go to a company and tell your idea; And told them to make the device or product what it would be like to create. Then the company or ODM will tell you yes we have designed this or the product can be like this; This way they will showcase various designs in front of you.
Then you will order if you like; Then you will give that logo; The box that will give you the motherboard, they will produce the product and give it to you. But there is no control or ownership of design here. Here's all the patents of the design that are near the ODM. For example, Quanta can be named; Those laptops like Dell, HP, and Lenovo have prepared laptops.
Now Dell will make their Inspiron model's new laptop; Here they can not take any decision from themselves. They will have a meeting with Quanta to tell them, look at this idea of us; Now you say how it can be made. Then the Quanta laptop is ready; Dell is marketing it.
Rebound and Copied Products (ODM Products):
Now the concept of a copy or a rebranded phone; What actually happens there is that. Your company needs a new phone; Do you want to go to any ODM? They will show you a complete catalog like a restaurant menu; Then say we have this phone, this is the specification; You said what you need? Now, whatever you like, they will deliver the phone as soon as you want.
If you need a logo, the box that you can take it through an ODM. Now suppose Walton copied a phone a few years ago to Gionee's. In this case Gionee's ODM was that Walton went to the ODM and the model has ordered [with a refurbished phone] with their logo. Here the ODM is all ready; Because the design patents, the IP is all in them. Then after ordering it came straight from Bangladesh. This is basically the concept of ODM.
But here is the R & D or the topic of research and development; That is not being done on the client side. Apple is now making its own process by faxing it, and it's a different thing; Samosang is the same. But their only concern for the companies of our country; Make our phone; China's ODM phone can not be made by making them money; After that we will do that marketing; Do business. Now if we look at the online stores; But I see a lot of VR Glass; Design is different from the same price and the company name is different. Here's the VD Glass of ODM of the same design; They are just making it for different companies in exchange for money. These are ODM Products or Refrnded Products.
Now there are different names in different countries of the world; But inside it is the same thing. If a company says here that we've developed and researched it would be cheating customers. Hope to understand the matter of OEM and ODM.