Prime Devices Corporation

12/10/2012

GE is moving appliance manufacturing back home, says Charles Fishman in The Atlantic Magazine, adding that GE is not alone in forsaking China and Mexico for U.S. plants and citing a U.S. “manufacturing renaissance” forecast by ISI Group’s Nancy Lazar.

Shortening product life cycles get part of the credit, says Fishman. When identical refrigerators were being built for seven years, Chinese manufacturing plants had plenty of time to set up and optimize their processes, he says, but now that refrigerator models change every couple of years a U.S. based plant can be more nimble when to models change.

Lean manufacturing, new collaborative relationships with unions, concerns about sharing intellectual property across the Pacific, increased shipping costs, increases in U.S. labor productivity, and demands for swift time-to-market also play a role, notes the author.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/12/the-insourcing-boom/309166/?single_page=true

After years of offshore production, General Electric is moving much of its far-flung appliance-manufacturing operations back home. It is not alone. An exploration of the startling, sustainable, just-getting-started return of industry to the United States.

02/11/2011

When I started Prime Devices in 1984, I occupied every spot on the org chart. I was the owner, the chairman of the board, the CEO, and the president.

My father Harold joined me a few months later, and in 1986 we hired our first outside salesperson, Eric Anderson.

Last December, Harold and I recognized that the responsibilities Eric has accepted in the last several years have increasingly become responsibilities usually undertaken by a company’s president. I am very pleased to announce that we are recognizing Eric with the appropriate title for the job he already has been doing.

I remain the owner, the chairman of the board, and the CEO, but effective January 1, 2011, I am very pleased to announce that Eric has agreed to start his 25th anniversary year by accepting the title that better represents his role for the past several years.

Please join me in congratulating Eric on becoming President of Prime Devices Corporation.

05/23/2010

What Lance Armstrong has to say about youth football also applies to business:

"The building blocks of football are blocking and tackling. This is true at the highest and lowest levels of the game. Coaches can devise innovative plays designed to fool their opponents, but if teams struggle with blocking and tackling the creativity won't matter. Tackling takes hard work, efficient movement and courage."

We strive to make Prime Devices innovative technically and commercially, but we never lose sight of the fact that the success of our technical and commerical innovations rest squarely on the skills we bring to bear on blocking and tackling.

Challenging times are opportunities to gain competitive advantage when our competitors let their blocking and tackling slide. Through unrelenting attention to blocking and tackling, we position Prime Devices to grow as the economy rebounds.

One-on-one Youth Football Tackling Speed Drills. The building blocks of football are blocking and tackling. This is true at the highest and lowest levels of the game. Coaches can devise innovative plays designed to fool their opp...

05/08/2010

High-quality sales calls on carefully chosen decision makers are Prime Devices Corporation's most important product, notes this article in Electrical Wholesaling Magazine.

You already know your employees are your most important resource. No mystery there. But how do you manage them during these trying economic times? The three articles in this feature package will give you some ideas. The first article, starting below, explores how some sales managers are solving comm...