ODM, original design manufacturers.

ODM, the Original design manufacture (original design manufacturers) abbreviation.

 

It is a company based on another manufacturer's specifications and requirements, design and production of products. Party has entrusted the design capability and technological level, based on the license contract manufacturing products. OBM, the Original Brand Manufacturer's acronym refers to the specialized requirements of OEM acceptance of other production companies, but never create their own brand.

 

A manufacturer to design a product, in some cases may be some other fancy brand manufacturers, requiring the latter's brand name coupled with the production, or slightly modify some of the design (such as key position) to produce. The greatest advantage to do so by other manufacturers to reduce their development time. For example, computer companies such as HP company may wish to market its laptops to a specific specification.

 

They will set out specific appearance of the product requirements, such as screen size and technical requirements, input / output ports, the keyboard forward degree, computer bag shape and color, the speaker location. They also usually specified on the product's main internal details such as CPU or video controller specifications. However, they do not design drawings, not specifying the exchange of power transistors used in the model, nor the frequency of backlight inverter to be selected.

 

These are the ODM work. ODM according to the computer company's specifications to the design and production of notebook computers. Sometimes, ODM can also be based on existing samples to production. Way tend to be more focus on ODM cooperation, and in the case of OEM, the production side of the basic specifications of products intended not to participate in