Puebla, Mexico — June 2026

At OMI, we build custom DC motors, starters, and battery systems. And over the years, we at OMI have watched OEM engineering and sourcing teams run into the same costly misunderstanding: the difference between OEM manufacturing services and standard contract manufacturing. 
It sounds like a small distinction. It isn't. 
Demand for custom-engineered components keeps climbing across the powersports and industrial markets. And as it does, OMI keeps seeing the same gap, one many OEM buyers discover too late. It's the point where a purely transactional manufacturing relationship falls short of what a performance-critical application actually needs. 
At OMI, we want to close that gap before it costs you. 

Contract Manufacturing: Production Without Partnership 

Contract manufacturing does one thing. It executes production against a finished design. 
The manufacturer builds your drawing. Engineering responsibility stays entirely with you. For standardized, fully validated components, that model works. It's clean, it's predictable, and it's the right fit. 
But custom motors, bendix, starters, and power systems are a different problem. When you're designing to tight thermal ranges, specific load profiles, and demanding duty cycles, a build-only model hands the full weight of design risk back to your engineering team. And the issues you don't catch before tooling? Those become expensive to fix after it. 
That's not a partnership. That's production in isolation. 

OEM Manufacturing Services: Engineering Involvement from the Start 

At OMI, we work differently. We bring our manufacturing expertise into your product development process before production begins — not after the drawing is locked. 
The goal is concrete: fewer revision cycles, better field performance, and a shorter path to market for your custom components. 
Here's what OMI's OEM manufacturing services include: 

• Application engineering — we study how your component has to perform, not just how it's drawn. 

• Design for manufacturability (DFM) — we flag what's hard to build before it becomes hard to fix. 

• Prototyping and validation — we test against real conditions, not assumptions. 

• Long-term product knowledge retention — we hold onto what we've learned across generations of your product. 
  That last point matters more than it looks. It's the difference between starting over and building forward. 
  OEM buyers developing custom components need a partner who understands the application — not just the drawing. When OMI is brought in early, we identify problems at the prototype stage. Not after tooling costs have already been committed. 
  That timing is the whole point. 

A 27-Year Track Record in Demanding OEM Applications 

OMI has been doing this since 1997. Twenty-seven years. 
In that time, we've delivered custom DC motors, starters, and battery systems to leading OEMs — including Harley-Davidson, Polaris, and Indian Motorcycle. These aren't forgiving applications. They demand components that perform under load, in the field, every time. 
OMI runs manufacturing facilities in the United States, Mexico, China, and Bangladesh. That footprint gives our OEM partners room to balance three things that usually compete: cost, lead time, and supply chain resilience — all within a single manufacturing relationship. 
Our model rests on long-term partnerships with engineering teams. We retain application knowledge across product generations. We support development from the first prototype through full-scale production. 
OMI doesn't hand you a part and walk away. We stay.

See how we work at manufacturing.omi1.com.