thumb|350px|Supply chain pyramid An original equipment manufacturer (OEM) is a company that produces parts and equipment that may be marketed by another company. However, the term is ambiguous, with several other common meanings: an OEM can be the maker of a system that includes other companies' subsystems, an end-product producer, an automotive part that is manufactured by the same company that produced the original part used in the automobile's assembly, or a value-added reseller.
thumb|350px|supply chain pyramid an original equipment manufacturer (oem) is a company that produces parts and equipment that may be marketed by another company however the term is ambiguous with several other common meanings an oem can be the maker of a system that includes other companies' subsystems an end-product producer an automotive part that is manufactured by the same company that produced the original part used in the automobile's assembly or a value-added reseller