Who are the main players in DMM manufacturing - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / testgear

author: Fiveohfour
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: December 20, 2018, 08:57:09 pm
content: I’m wondering who the big OEM’s are, with all the similar meters on alibaba and whatnot, what companies are brands going to for their build-a-meter orders? Which ones are direct clones and which ones design themselves? It would be greatly helpful to know which company is actually making a given meter that you see all over with 50 brands on it, like the uni-t 210E aka the EVERY BRAND THAT EXISTS.I’m mostly looking at clamp meters but assume the situation is the same for normal DMM’sUPDATE: Also would really appreciate any suggestions as far as where the top place to discuss Meters/test equipment/etc. is online, aside from this forum, and maybe Ben heck’s, are there any larger/others worth checking out? Reddit seemed dead but I may have been on a duplicate sub.“Sent from my iPhone using twitter”. Umm yea ok sure. Sounds legitSent from my iPhone using Twitter

author: MartinX
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 20, 2018, 10:32:00 pm
content: One of the biggest must be CEM their multimeters are rebranded by Extech and a ton of other brands, if you browse Ebay for digital multimeter and compare it to the CEM catalogue there are a lot if similar models obviously made by CEM.here is their website:http://www.cem-instruments.com/The full company name is SHENZHEN EVERBEST MACHINERY INDUSTRY CO.,LTD, very reassuring because you know they are the best and that will never change.

author: Fiveohfour
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: December 20, 2018, 11:17:29 pm
content: Quote from: MartinX on December 20, 2018, 10:32:00 pmGood thing I’m not a teenager anymore and don’t have to laugh when a Manufacturers Initials spell out SEMI. Giggity. Yup thanks that’s a good one too thanks I’ve noticed that one, CEM. I’ve also noticed “brands” seemingly mixing/populating their lineup with products from various manufacturers. which makes it that much more confusing. I also wonder how many brands “SEMI” has themselves in-house.Does fluke contract out manufacturing? I assume they do, would really love to be able to put together a bit of a chart so people can try and get as close to the source manufacturer as possible when budget shopping, instead of buying from a Build-a-Brand who’s address is UPS. There’s nothing wrong with that, ideally people who want to take the time to investigate further could do so as well though, and without having to try and translate conversations from the 37 companies named identically to SEMI, or some variation of it, on Alibaba.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

author: 001
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 20, 2018, 11:20:58 pm
content: Quote from: MartinX on December 20, 2018, 10:32:00 pmDo rebranded units became haraam?

author: MartinX
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 21, 2018, 06:18:39 pm
content: Rebranded multimeters can be relatively halal but if the rebrander takes a multimeter model that normally costs 50$ and then sells it for 100$ without adding anything more than their brand name they slip into haraam territory.

author: HKJ
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 21, 2018, 07:39:25 pm
content: Some of the big supplies for rebranding are: Brymen (GreenLee, EEVBlog), UNI-T, Mastech, Zotek (Aneng)