He assembles machines from whatever off-the-shelf components the customer chooses.

Accordingly, the first Sun workstations were assembled from off-the-shelf components.

During the development period, the two companies found that they could not use off-the-shelf components and software, as they had initially promised.

They used off-the-shelf components and miniature batteries, for technology tests.

This could be compared to how people building a house might buy off-the-shelf components, such as bricks, windows, and doors, rather than producing everything themselves.

PhotonEx is using off-the-shelf components to build the equipment rather than designing from the ground up.

Because the two-mode design uses some off-the-shelf components and spreads costs across three companies, it should be less expensive.

Myers' work often makes use of off-the-shelf components, or ready made industrial products that can be readily assembled on site.

The Macintosh used standard off-the-shelf components to the greatest extent possible.

Ironically, the star tracker was an off-the-shelf component, expected to be highly reliable.