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 How can OEM partnerships help me? The benefits that companies derive from OEM partnerships can be quite significant. In addition to the substantial savings on cost and time of development, it could expose your product to an entirely new market. It also means someone else is taking care of any ISO certifications or other quality requirements that are needed. A classic example of an OEM partnership that positively impacts company strategies and practices is embedded analytics. Companies also can use OEMs to apply cloud, on-premise, or hybrid analytics to company data collected from different areas of the organization. The high level of customization that OEM partnerships offer means that whatever their IT capabilities, companies can extract the maximal amount of actionable insights from their disparate datasets. (Wondering how to find the right OEM supplier for your embedded analytics?) With tailored prescriptive analytic technology embedded directly into their software or hardware...

Pros and cons of OEMs This type of business relationship can be a great way to get a product to market and start generating revenue. By forming an OEM partnership , you will be able to create a product that is difficult to replicate by consumers or competitors due to the cost or time to produce it. You may also unlock access to new markets, industry sectors, and geographic locations by hiring the services of an OEM. However, there are some disadvantages to working with OEMs. Providing design briefs to a manufacturer can sometimes confuse and require members of your team to travel to the factory and provide support and assistance. This can cost your company time and money. The OEM may also require changes to the product during the manufacturing process that are backed by their manufacturing teams rather than your design brief. Also, by not involving the manufacturing team during the development of the product, they won’t have the opportunity to provide their feedback and advice whic...

Benefits exist for OEMs who embrace 3D printing parts — including by third parties 3D-printing companies were beginning to create a grey or black market for copies of OEM parts without the automaker’s validation, similar to how Napster created a black market for digital music 25 years ago. Besides the loss of OEM profits, this situation poses risks for an automaker’s consumers. If the grey- or black-market part is produced using methods not up to OEM specs, the component could fail. Automakers could do what musicians eventually did — digitize, distribute and monetize their products. Customers will pursue what’s inexpensive and convenient. “The end users want to take advantage of it". For example, Nissan could sell an authorized $10 digital specification file for a hard-to-find 1977 Datsun clip. A customer could upload that file into a qualified 3D printing device and reproduce the clip with an OEM-approved level of quality. The part might have originally cost 15 cents, but paying...

Once seen as the second fiddle to Intel in computer processors, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) admits it had an image problem but once its CPUs started showing performance gains the relationship with PC OEMs changed drastically. There was a point in time when AMD’s relationship with our OEM partners was nowhere near as deep as it is today. McAfee, who has been with AMD for well over 15 years, says the company’s 7nm chips offer significantly high-performance and that helped win the confidence of PC OEMs. With the Ryzen products, in particular, and the leadership we have been able to drive in terms of core count, performance and battery life into our products, it has changed the way they [PC companies] collaborate with AMD. From the beginning, AMD was seen as the chip company undercutting Intel on price, despite building fast and powerful processors. AMD’s products were convincing but also fell short on performance when compared to Intel’s CPUs. But when Lisa Su, now regarded as o...