How to Use original equipment manufacturer in a Sentence

original equipment manufacturer

noun
  • Over the past two decades, HydraPak has become the number one original equipment manufacturer of reservoirs and soft flasks in the world.
    — Morgan Tilton, Outside Online, 30 July 2020
  • Aftermarket is the market for replacement parts not made by the original equipment manufacturer.
    — Weizhen Tan, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Newman now sees Dell as the clear leader for original equipment manufacturer market share in AI servers, even ahead of competitors.
    — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The Taiwanese company didn’t respond to a request for additional information. Foxconn is the largest original equipment manufacturer globally, producing electronics equipment for companies including Apple, Amazon, Sony, and Microsoft.
    — Grant Gross, Washington Examiner, 10 Dec. 2020
  • During this time, there's often a flurry of change orders going back and forth between the automotive original equipment manufacturer and the supplier.
    — Dave Opsahl, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • Extending the range of jet skis is a big part of the aftermarket and even original equipment manufacturer (OEM) market for these watercraft.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Each one involved items whose original equipment manufacturer's parent company was TransDigm.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 16 June 2023
  • In the automotive industry, for example, shutdowns at the original equipment manufacturer-level due to the pandemic caused a ripple effect of challenges down to the dealer level.
    — Matthew Leone, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
  • An original equipment manufacturer headquartered in Germany has launched a new type of wind turbine that can deliver higher energy yields in low-temperature environments.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Also, ask whether the shop uses OEM (original equipment manufacturer) or aftermarket (equipment made by another company that may be used as a replacement) parts.
    — Laura Daily, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The online automotive marketplace said revenue is under pressure due to changes in original equipment manufacturer advertising investments.
    — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Multiple auto [original equipment manufacturer] CEOs have promised self-driving car roadmaps that their own engineers think are unrealistic.
    — Sara Castellanos, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2018
  • Today, Casco remains an original equipment manufacturer specializing in cutting, sealing, and sewing top-quality products for soft goods industry leaders.
    — Melinda Zemper, Cincinnati.com, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Having a major [original equipment manufacturer] in support is a huge endorsement of the legitimacy of Right-to-Repair legislation.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2021
  • For the trial, the company used a commercial surveillance drone from a Korean original equipment manufacturer (OEM).
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 19 Feb. 2026
  • For example, imagine a parts supplier to an industrial original equipment manufacturer (OEM).
    — Lisa Caldwell, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The defense spending amendment also covers Dahua and Hikvision’s extensive agreements with original equipment manufacturers, sweeping up any vendor that resells the devices or uses the companies’ equipment.
    — Olivia Carville, latimes.com, 10 July 2019
  • Imagine an original equipment manufacturer using connected products to monitor its products and the virtual representation of the models as an additional selling feature of the physical products.
    — Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The segment missed expectations last quarter, with management attributing the weakness to original equipment manufacturer (OEM) destocking.
    — Zev Fima,kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2025
  • While most of the original equipment manufacturer world is still working on SAE Level 3 and Level 4 advanced hands- and eyes-free driving technology, some companies are already deploying it on the street.
    — Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Imagine a world where that motor continuously sends operational data back to the original equipment manufacturer (OEM), giving them visibility into its performance.
    — Chris Turlica, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Scout Motors could consider opportunities with other original equipment manufacturer, whether within or outside the Volkswagen Group, if the company has available capacity.
    — Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Sure, other Windows original equipment manufacturers had been creating unique devices — Lenovo's Yoga certainly stands out — but Microsoft joining the party certainly caused some more innovation.
    — CNN Underscored, 24 Dec. 2019
  • JPMorgan is bullish on EHang , China’s leading original equipment manufacturer for electric vertical take-off and landing, or eVTOL, aircraft.
    — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2025
  • So far this year, BIP has secured about $400 million of new investment opportunities, including the launch of an equipment leasing platform with a leading global investment-grade original equipment manufacturer and a project under the strategic partnership with Bloom Energy.
    — Tipranks.com Staff, CNBC, 10 May 2026
  • Vehicle interior air quality (VIAQ), which refers to the quality of air inside a vehicle cabin, influenced by both internal and external pollutants, is increasingly gaining attention in both original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and aftermarket automotive industries.
    — Anan Bishara, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025

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