OEM-Original Equipment Manufacturer

Many products such as automobiles, household appliances, computer equipment and consumer electronics are complex and involve many levels of assembly. Often the product that reaches the final consumer has other products nested within them. For example, when General Radio developed a complex tester for printed circuit boards, its product had a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) computer in its core, a model that Digital sold separately to many customers. To the company supplying the core product, in this case Digital Equipment Corporation, General Radio is an OEM (original