OEM / ODM is a product of modern industry under highly specialized in the production and sale of these two ways of products more and more, because these two modes can be more efficient integration and resources, to achieve win-win.
OEM (ie ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER) means "original equipment manufacturer" means a company based on its own design and production of a product specification, then sell it to another company to crown NOTE trademarks and distribution. In the computer manufacturing industry, OEM is often used as a verb. When people say that a company other companies OEM products, means that the company purchased from another company (ie OEM company) and has been designed at the complete finished products (the "original equipment"). Most of the time, the purchaser requires the seller to change only the product name and color, and other aspects of the product will not be modified. Only product names and models are different.
ODM (ie ORIGINAL DESIGN MANUFACTURER) meaning "original design manufacturer" means a company to design and manufacture a product based on another company's specifications. For example, computer companies such as HP company may want to market its a laptop to make specific specifications. They will be specifically set out in the appearance of the product requirements, such as screen size and technical requirements, the input / output port, forward of the keyboard, computer bag shape and color, position of the speakers and the like. They also often specifically listed the major internal details of the product, such as CPU or video controller specifications. However, they do not design drawings, not specifically listed power switching transistors used in the model, nor the frequency of backlight inverter be selected. These are ODM work. ODM The computer company's proposed specifications to design and production of notebook computers. Sometimes, ODM also be based on existing samples to produce. ODM way tend to pay more attention to cooperation, and in the case of OEM, the purchaser of the product specifications basically does not participate advice.