The second, called Original Equipment Manufacture (OEM), involves producing a product for a foreign company according to specific instructions, using that company's trademark. Due in part to geographic proximity, most of the companies which first worked with Taiwan manufacturers on a cooperative basis were Japanese.
因此，自創產品及品牌是一條必定要走的路，但無法一步登天，國內有志於此的業者，於是常採取二種途徑，以為過渡﹘﹘與外國廠商技術合作及做 OEM（即代工，按客戶指定的規格製造，掛別人的品牌）。